Trade-off: Deal Splits Democrats Between Business, Labor

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Fri, 04/17/2015 - 12:45am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The hardest sell for President Barack Obama will be persuading members of his own party to back a bipartisan agreement on global U.S. trade policy. Longtime divisions in the Democratic ranks broke open Thursday when top congressional lawmakers finally reached a long-sought deal that would pave the way for the broadest trade policy pact in years. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep.

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