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The world’s largest corporate power grab, also known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, is just waiting for Congress to sign it and say, “Yes, take away Congress’ authority.”

This deal gives an incredible amount of power to the largest corporations in the world over national governments. Yes, that includes the U.S. government. No individual American has the resources or right to ensure his or her economic and political interests are safeguarded within this vast global corporate structure.

The clearly desired result of the TPP is to give more power to those with the most money. Indeed, they were the ones who negotiated it, and now they are spending billions to convince you it’s a good idea.

Montanans are smarter than that. We can see beyond corporate profiteering, because we depend on our own communities for success. We care about the success of our local businesses.

The TPP contains endless pages with rules for labor, environment, immigration and every other aspect of global commerce -- and a new international regulatory structure to spread, implement, and enforce these rules under the WTO. This new structure will meet, appoint unelected bureaucrats, adopt rules and change the agreement after adoption.