How It Works: Fast Tracking is an end-run around democracy... It is opposed by labor, environmental and human rights groups because it would eliminate the ability of Government bodies to amend or moderate anti-worker, environmentally risky and undemocratic components of trade deals reached by the Executive of National Administrations.

Fast Track has long been the top legislative priority of multinational corporations and their lobbying associations. With fast-track authority, North American leaders would be freed to negotiate a borderless business zone from South America to Antarctica--creating a circumstance Public Citizen Global Trade Watch director Lori Wallach has described as "NAFTA on steroids."