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US Sen. Boxer on TPP: Security Clearance Required for Staffers; No Notes; Race to the Bottom for Wages and the Environment

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[Note: The Republican Leadership is threatening to try to run through Fast Track-TPP again, as soon as this coming Tuesday
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/trans-pacific-partnership-fast-track-defeat-now-what ].

From Sen. Boxer speech in the US Senate against Fast Track:
So they say, well, it’s very transparent. Go down and look at it. Well, let me tell you, what you have to do to read this agreement. Follow this. You can only take a few of your staffers who happen to have a security clearance because god knows why this is secure. This is classified.

It’s nothing to do with defense. It has nothing to do with going after ISIS. It has nothing to do with any of that, but it is classified. So I go down with my staff that I could get to go with me, and as soon as I get there, the guard says to me, hand over your electronics.

Okay…

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