Fast Track Bill Presented But Progress On Trade Requires The President Stand Up To Detroit

Last Thursday, legislation to restore ?fast track? trade promotion authority was introduced in Congress.  The grant of that authority is widely considered necessary to complete and ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement between the United States and 11 other Pacific-bordering nations, as well as other prospective trade agreements.  But this vehicle, which conveys congressional negotiating objectives to the president in exchange for the promise of a timely, up-or-down vote, pulled out o...