Obama Backed Himself Into Corner On Free Trade: Ex-USTR

Law360, New York (May 12, 2015, 2:57 PM EDT) -- President Barack Obama is facing off against the Democratic base in a bitter fight over the future of the country's trade policy, a squabble that arose at least in part from Obama's own past statements riling public sentiment against trade, former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills told Law360.

In an odd bit of warped bipartisanship, the president finds himself in lockstep with many Republican lawmakers in his effort to renew the White House's Trade Promotion Authority and quickly wrap up the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, two initiatives facing strident resistance from labor unions, environmental groups and the most progressive members of the...

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