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Democratic Senators Put ISDS Atop A List Of TPP Concerns In Letter To Obama

September 30, 2016 at 7:56 AM
The Trans-Pacific Partnership's investor-state dispute settlement provisions are atop a list of complaints with the deal advanced by a group of Democratic senators in a letter to the president this week. Sens. Sherrod Brown (OH) Ed Markey (MA), Bob Casey (PA), Jeff Merkley (OR) and Mazie Hirono (HI) signed the Sept. 29 letter -- putting ISDS “first and foremost” among their concerns. The letter calls for the deal to be renegotiated. “ISDS challenges, and even mere threats of ISDS challenges,...

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