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Hilary Matfess is a student at the Johns Hopkins University. She has contributed to the Epoch Times, CounterPunch, Nation of Change, and Foreign Policy in Focus.
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American democracy is in a sorry state when corporations are granted more access to even the text of sweeping government agreements than the public and its elected officials. Although corporate influence on U.S. trade policy is hardly a new phenomenon, the simultaneous waning of congressional oversight is all the more unsettling.