[vox] Senate blocks debate on TPP Fast-Track

[Brian E. Lavender]

Revolt over TPP: Senate Dems Rebuke Obama by Blocking Debate on Secretive Trade Deal

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/13/revolt_over_tpp_senate_dems_rebuke

  In a surprising setback for President Obama, Senators from his own
  party have blocked debate on a bill that would have given the president
  fast-track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP.

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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture