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Legislation key to US President Barack Obama's trade agenda has passed a key hurdle in the Senate, just two weeks after it appeared to have failed.
The bill known as the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or, more commonly, Fast Track, makes it easier for presidents to negotiate trade deals.
Supporters see it as critical to the success of a 12-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The bill is expected to pass a final vote in the Senate on Wednesday.
Tuesday's 60-37 vote - just barely meeting the required 60 vote threshold - is the result of the combined efforts of the White House and many congressional Republicans to push the bill through Congress, despite the opposition of many Democrats.
This is primarily a tech news site, and it's generally good to avoid political news, but the TPP is a huge trade deal, negotiated in secret, that will have large ramifications for the world economy that affects us all, and that also has large implications for the accountability of major world governments to their citizens.
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(Score: 1) by AnonymousCowardNoMore on Wednesday June 24 2015, @06:53PM
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Law is not what's in the law books. Law is decided by courts and derives from the interpretation of legislation by various judges over time. This means that in addition to legislation, you also need to study case law for whatever precendents may apply. Which is impossible even at superhuman reading speed--but ignorance of the law is no excuse. And you'd have to figure out for yourself whether each one can or can't be applied to your case. The English Common Law system gets dressed up to seem necessary for fairness but IMO it's oppressive and exists only to enrich lawyers and oppress the poor (who can't afford to let someone else figure out in advance what is or isn't likely to be safe).
In parting I quotes Tacitus at you:
"Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws."
"The more corrupt the republic, the more the laws."
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:25PM
Need to let IBM's Watson parse it.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek