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May. 14, 2015 8:57 am

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Hour Two: Is treachery afoot with the TPP? Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL, 9th district) / Trade Treachery

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mathboy 11 years 12 weeks ago

#1

With a constant push in Washington for things like fast-track trade authority, I'd be interested to find out if Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks the Constitutional threshold for ratifying a treaty should be lower than 2/3. Should it be 3/5, a simple majority?

I understand that the threshold is high because of the difficulty in undoing a treaty, but that difficulty is obviously leading to these attempts to work around that barrier, making it less effective.

mathboy 11 years 12 weeks ago

#2

The train station in Denver had a grand reopening a couple months ago, so someone in the Denver or Colorado government must be doing something about infrastructure. When I heard about it, though, I thought, "Who rides trains?" I honestly don't know anyone that has done so.

mathboy 11 years 12 weeks ago

#3

A better term than "suckers" might be "marks", which implies more about the shills than the suckers. "Mark" means an offense has been committed against that person, and doesn't imply any special susceptibility to being fooled.

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