Sen. Toomey Announces TPP Opposition
Amid sagging poll numbers in a tense election fight, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., wrote an opinion piece published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announcing his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying it would “make it too easy” for actors from other…
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countries to steal intellectual property from members of Pennsylvania’s life sciences and pharmaceutical sector, and that it wouldn’t open the U.S. dairy export market (here). “TPP is supposed to give our country the chance to write the rules for global trade, instead of letting China do it,” Toomey said. “That is a laudable goal, and some of its provisions would open new markets for some of our state's farmers and other industries. However, having the right goal is not good enough. It also has to be a good deal, and good deals require good negotiations. In the TPP, the Obama administration has not gotten a good enough deal for Pennsylvania workers.” Administration trade negotiators haven’t addressed concerns Toomey expressed to them, he said. Toomey pushed a renegotiation of the pact. A recent Quinnipiac University poll indicates that Toomey is trailing Democratic competitor Katie McGinty in the Senate race 47-44, while a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist University poll shows him trailing 48-44. Both polls had a 3.4-percent margin of error.