Re:Leaked: What's in TPP’s intellectual property chapter
by lhc- on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @05:32PM
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Warren was not a senator while the ACA was being drafted.
Re:Leaked: What's in TPP’s intellectual property chapter
by snowwrestler on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @06:02PM
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She is now, so the honorific is called for when people refer to her now.
Before running for office, she was a major contributor to the ideas in Dodd-Frank, and many of those meetings took place out of the public eye and before the public debate on the bill.
This is not to criticize that particular bill (or the ACA) or her role in drafting it. Just making the point that negotiating and drafting policy behind closed door is a totally standard and unremarkable first step in the process.
The "behind closed doors" concern is mostly fake. "Secrecy" is a story line that tests well with folks who don't know how policy gets made in general. For example, the PPACA (aka Obamacare) and Dodd-Frank bills were extensively negotiated in private before being offered on the House and Senate floors for votes. I don't recall much complaining about secrecy then (edit: I mean from Democrats like Senator Warren).
Generally speaking, people object to private negotiations only if they object to the substance of the negotiations.