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Senate Dems Block Key Obama Priority
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Senate Dems Block Key Obama Priority
By Dana Bash, Ted Barrett, Alexandra Jaffe and Eric Bradner
CNN
Updated 6:13 PM ET, Tue May 12, 2015
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/politics/free-trade-fast-track-vote/
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama is privately working with Senate
Democrats to find a way forward for his free trade initiative.
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After Democrats banded together to rebuke their own party's President on a
key trade bill Tuesday afternoon, Obama huddled with some of those
senators -- including several who have publicly expressed support for the
bill, called trade promotion authority -- to "discuss a path forward for
this legislation," an administration official said.
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Obama is scrambling to save his biggest legislative priority in his
remaining years in the White House. The bill, trade negotiators say, is
necessary before the 11 other countries participating in the talks will
agree to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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"The President reiterated his view, which he has shared in numerous
similar conversations with members over the past several weeks, that
passing TPA is an important step toward finalizing the Trans-Pacific
Partnership -- the most progressive trade agreement in our history, which
levels the playing field for American workers and puts in place new,
high-standards environmental, labor, and human rights protections," the
administration official said.
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It became clear that Obama would suffer a major setback Tuesday afternoon
when roughly 14 pro-trade Democrats emerged from a meeting with other
Senate Democrats saying they wouldn't vote to take up the trade bill --
which then failed on a 52-45 vote.
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The Democrats complained that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was
refusing to add a package of pro-worker provisions to the bill that many
in the GOP see as unrelated and too costly.
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"What we just saw here is pretty shocking," McConnell said on the Senate
floor after the vote.
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"What we've just witnessed here is the Democratic Senate shut down the
opportunity to debate the top economic priority of the Democratic
President of the United States," he said.
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Other Republicans lashed out, too, saying they were furious to see
Democrats stand in the way of a rare agreement with the White House.
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