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" ...because I am a little slow. In the Congress, Mel Watt can&amp;#039;t get an up-or-down vote on his nomination to be the head of the (ahem) Federal Housing Finance Agency. However... Sometime very soon, the Congress is likely to pass -- with limited, if any debate and no amendments possible -- a massive trade deal that was negotiated in secret, and the terms of which remain largely secret, and which, if the past is any kind of prologue, will drop a thousand-pound stink bomb on American jobs. Debate (theoretically) cannot ever end on Mel Watt and his middling level federal job. Debate cannot even begin on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Check the umpire because somebody&amp;#039;s screwing us. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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