This weekend in Orlando, Florida members of the Platform Committee met to help create the Democratic party’s positions on a number of key issues. I was honored to attend as a Committee member on behalf of Senator Bernie Sanders.

The Platform adopted by the Committee contains victories on social, racial and economic justice issues that have been championed by Senator Sanders and his supporters: it calls for a $15 federal minimum wage, paid family leave, the Department of Justice to investigate all shootings involving police officers, and the removal of marijuana as a Class One controlled substance (which squeaked to victory, 81-80.)

The Platform passed with overwhelming support from members appointed by Secretary Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and Senator Sanders. However, the platform falls short on several key issues, specifically the Trans-Pacific Partnership (also known as TPP or “manure,” as Sanders Committee member Jim Hightower dubbed it) and Medicare-for-All.

There were amendments offered on TPP by both the Sanders and Clinton camps. Clinton Committee member Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, took to the mic to support his amendment on TPP, joined by AFT president and Clinton Committee member Randi Weingarten.

“We have been against TPP,” Weingarten told the audience. “And we are glad that both of our candidates are against TPP.”

“We have open opposition from both of our candidates,” echoed Saunders in his remarks. “For once all Democratic candidates and Labor are of one view: No on TPP.”

The amendment, which totaled 452 words, states, in part:

“[Trade agreements] must not undermine democratic decision making through special privileges and private courts for corporations, and trade negotiations must be transparent and inclusive... [W]e will oppose trade agreements that do not support good American jobs, raise wages, and improve our national security... Any trade agreement must protect workers and the environment and not undermine access to critically-needed prescription drugs...These are standards all Democrats believe should be applied to all trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”

But what was missing from this amendment of 452 words? Four words that made the position of the Democratic party on TPP explicit: “We oppose the TPP.”

Former NAACP president Ben Jealous, representing Sanders, offered those words in an amendment to Saunders’ amendment, imploring Committee members to be leaders, not bureaucrats.

But the Clinton and DNC members of the Platform Committee voted down the Jealous amendment in a vote of 74 to 106.

Let me recap for you: Clinton Platform members got up to tell the Committee, guests, and the audience watching at home on CSPAN that they oppose the TPP. But they would not add these words to the platform: “We oppose the TPP.”