TAA Fails in the House - What happens next?

from Roll Call:

The House plans to reconsider TAA next week (defeated 302 to 126), giving Obama the weekend the lobby Democrats in hopes of saving the package.

Passage of TAA was necessary to advance TPA, which would fast-track a potential 12-nation trade deal with Pacific countries.

Members voted 219-211 on TPA after sinking TAA. The two must both be passed in order to be cleared for the president’s signature... (TPA bill would have to go back to the Senate which it is unlikely to approve without the TAA)

The procedural hurdles to bring TPA back to the floor are significant and unwieldy, but because there are currently the votes to pass that component of the trade package — as members saw on Friday — GOP leaders will without question work to find a way to move it along in the days ahead.


on Rep. Pelosi's nay vote:

“If voting against TAA slows down (TPA), I’m prepared to vote against TAA,” she said, hammering the final nail into the bill’s coffin.

It was clear her position was a surprise to colleagues, with close ally Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., barely able to conceal her applause in approval. Pelosi always seemed to be leaning “no” on TPA, but her vote against TAA was particularly stunning because she was the one who helped broker a deal meant to allay concerns of enough Democrats to not put the entire package in peril.


read: http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/rebuffing-obama-pelosi-democrats-scuttle-trade-deal/