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# Stalled Fast Track is a Victory for Consumers, Workers and the Environment
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/stalled_fast_track_0612150334/
- Published: 2015-06-12T16:34:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:34:11.000Z
- Description: Food & Water Watch director Wenonah Hauter welcomes the House vote that blocked the worker trade assistance half of the Fast Track package, saying it keeps the measure off the President's desk and derails the as-yet-unseen Trans-Pacific Partnership.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

**For Immediately Release:**

June 12, 2015

**Contacts:**

Patrick Woodall – [202-683-2487](tel:202-683-2487)

Rich Bindell – [202-683-2457](tel:202-683-2457)

**Stalled Fast Track is a Victory for Consumers, Workers and the Environment**

*Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter*

WASHINGTON — “Today, the House of Representatives put consumers, workers and the environment first when it blocked the easy passage of the Senate-passed Fast Track, also known as Trade Promotion Authority. The House of Representatives blocked one-half of the Fast Track measure in a lopsided bipartisan vote, which will prevent Fast Track from going to the President’s desk.

“Finally, Congress stood up to the Big Business interests pushing Fast Track, which derails the as-yet-unseen Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact that will undermine key consumer, public health and environmental protections, and other trade deals that follow. Although the House narrowly passed the Fast Track measure itself, the other portion of the legislation covering worker trade assistance failed.

The American people should cheer that the Fast Track juggernaut has been derailed today. It will be nearly impossible to jump start Fast Track at this point, but the broad-based coalition that brought down the Fast Track package today will remain vigilant to prevent future parliamentary shenanigans in the House and Senate that try to reanimate Fast Track.”

*Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.*

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