From EFF:
The U.S. Senate has paved the way for the passage of Fast Track legislation, to give the White House and the U.S. Trade Representative almost unilateral power to negotiate and finalize secret anti-user trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Yesterday a "cloture" vote was held—this was a vote to end debate on Fast Track and break any possibility for a filibuster, and it passed by the minimum votes needed—60 to 37. Today, the Senate voted to pass the legislation itself. TPP proponents only needed 51 votes, a simple majority, to actually pass the bill, and they got it in a 60 to 38 vote. Following months and months of campaigning, Congress has ultimately caved to corporate demands to hand away its own constitutional mandate over trade, and the President is expected to the sign the bill into law as early as tonight or later this week.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @01:43PM
Maybe the white guy who shot up a black church after telling his buddies he wanted to start a race war, and posted pix of himself waving a Confederate flag, might've had something to do with the media attention?
Nah, there has to be more to it than that. Keep digging, theorists.