Sessions: 5,554-page TPP 'confirms our worst fears'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., slammed the newly released text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a giant document that will impose an anti-democratic global commerce regime, one that gives unelected bureaucrats the power to change the terms of the deal.
"The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership runs 5,554 pages," he said. "This is, by definition, anti-democratic."
Sessions' staff said the document is 2 million words, "more than five times as long as Obamacare."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"No individual American has the resources to ensure his or her economic and political interests are safeguarded within this vast global regulatory structure," he added.