Kaptur Sends Letter To Bush Condemning SPP NAFTA Expansion
April 23, 2008
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Dear President Bush,
We write to express concerns on the eve of your traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana for your fourth summit meeting held in series with your Mexican and Canadian counterparts since the 2005 launch of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). We seek to articulate the growing unease of concerned citizens in all three countries over a major continental initiative being planned in a closed process without due legislative oversight.
All the signatories of this letter (as well as similar letters in Canada and Mexico) favor closer and better relations with our North American neighbors, but we object strenuously to a process that permits the executives of our respective countries to bypass constitutionally mandated review.
Because SPP implementation currently envisions no Congressional ratification process, negotiation should be halted until the mechanisms of the SPP negotiations are made transparent and proper legislative oversight is established.
Sincerely,
Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Michal Michaud (D-ME)
Betty McCollum (D-MN)
Phil Hare (D-IL)
Betty Sutton (D-OH)
Virgil Goode (R-VA)
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
James McGovern (D-MA)
Nancy Boyda (D-KS)
Janice Schakowsky (D-IL)
Donald Payne (D-NJ)
Dear President Bush,
We write to express concerns on the eve of your traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana for your fourth summit meeting held in series with your Mexican and Canadian counterparts since the 2005 launch of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). We seek to articulate the growing unease of concerned citizens in all three countries over a major continental initiative being planned in a closed process without due legislative oversight.
All the signatories of this letter (as well as similar letters in Canada and Mexico) favor closer and better relations with our North American neighbors, but we object strenuously to a process that permits the executives of our respective countries to bypass constitutionally mandated review.
Because SPP implementation currently envisions no Congressional ratification process, negotiation should be halted until the mechanisms of the SPP negotiations are made transparent and proper legislative oversight is established.
Sincerely,
Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Michal Michaud (D-ME)
Betty McCollum (D-MN)
Phil Hare (D-IL)
Betty Sutton (D-OH)
Virgil Goode (R-VA)
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
James McGovern (D-MA)
Nancy Boyda (D-KS)
Janice Schakowsky (D-IL)
Donald Payne (D-NJ)