House Members Say TPP is Too Big to Pass

Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) standing with the text of the more than 5,000-page Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.

Four leading Members of Congress said yesterday the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is too complicated and big to get Congressional approval. Earlier this month the text of the TPP was released to Members of Congress and the public. The administration is expected to try to force a vote on the TPP as early as next spring.

Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), and Mark Pocan (D-WI) said at a U.S. Capitol news conference that the stepped-up schedule – fewer than three months – that the administration set for Congressional approval of the complex 5,000-page agreement is not going to work.