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I am very doubtful we can have a ratification vote [on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement in Congress] before the end of this year. We are thinking this is going to spill over to 2016 and this opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities. June 25, 2015, Mireya Solís, CNN
I am very doubtful we can have a ratification vote [on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement in Congress] before the end of this year. We are thinking this is going to spill over to 2016 and this opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities.
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In this Brookings Essay, Stuart Taylor, Jr. collects the divergent views of four prominent experts to help frame the debate over the future of the NSA in the post-Snowden era.
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