Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for Obama on Trade Pact

Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for Obama on Trade Pact - NYTimes In what is sure to be one of the toughest fights of his last 19 months in office, the “fast track” bill allowing the White House to pursue its planned Pacific trade deal also heralds a divisive fight within the Democratic Party, one that could spill into the 2016 presidential campaign. With committee votes planned next week, liberal senators such as Sherrod Brown of Ohio are demanding to know Hillary Clinton’s position on the bill to give the president so-called trade promotion authority, or T.P.A.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/business/obama-trade-legislation-fast-track-authority-trans-pacific-partnership.html?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=562f93bee4-Sinocism04_19_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-562f93bee4-29615013&mc_cid=562f93bee4&mc_eid=5935182a65