<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/politics/obamas-trade-bills-face-tough-battle-against-house-democrats.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&hp&_r=4" class="">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/politics/obamas-trade-bills-face-tough-battle-against-house-democrats.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&hp&_r=4</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 itemprop="headline" id="story-heading" class="story-heading" style="font-size: 2.125rem; line-height: 2.375rem; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: italic;">House Rejects Trade Bill, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal</h1><div id="story-meta-footer" class="story-meta-footer" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-top: 2px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="269" data-total-count="269" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">WASHINGTON — House Democrats rebuffed a dramatic personal appeal from President Obama on Friday, torpedoing his ambitious push to expand his trade negotiating power — and, quite likely, his chance to secure a legacy-defining trade accord spanning the Pacific Ocean.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="442" data-total-count="711" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In a remarkable rejection of a president they have resolutely backed, House Democrats voted to kill assistance to workers displaced by global trade, a program their party created and has stood by for four decades. By doing so, they brought down legislation granting the president trade promotion authority — the power to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended or filibustered by Congress — before it could even come to a final vote.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="243" data-total-count="954" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“We want a better deal for America’s workers,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader who has guided the president’s agenda for two terms and was personally lobbied by Mr. Obama until the last minute.</p><aside class="nocontent marginalia related-coverage-marginalia robots-nocontent" data-marginalia-type="sprinkled" role="complementary" module="RelatedCoverage-Marginalia" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); width: 300px; float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 45px 7px; padding-top: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="nocontent robots-nocontent"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/politics/obamas-trade-bills-face-tough-battle-against-house-democrats.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&hp&_r=4#story-continues-2" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Continue reading the main story</a><header class=""><h2 class="module-heading" style="font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.6875rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED COVERAGE</h2></header><ul style="margin: 0px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin-bottom: 0.75em;" class=""><article class="story theme-summary"><a class="story-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/business/unpacking-the-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal.html" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="skipped" style="display: block; color: rgb(50, 104, 145); text-decoration: none;"><div class="thumb" style="float: left; clear: none; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 65px; height: auto; position: relative; max-width: 65px; cursor: pointer;"><img alt="A container wharf in Tokyo." style="max-width: 100%; border: none; display: block;" apple-inline="yes" id="24B39776-E749-4E97-875C-888B85A19592" height="75" width="75" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3AFCFFDE-B12A-4607-8FCA-5BA7F0208E28@hsd1.pa.comcast.net." class=""><div class="media-action-overlay" style="position: absolute; bottom: 8%; left: 8%;"></div></div><h2 class="story-heading" style="font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.0625rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; float: left; width: 223.5px; clear: right;"><span class="story-heading-text" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); padding-right: 0.75em;">The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal: What It Would Mean</span><time class="dateline" datetime="2015-05-11" style="font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 1.0625rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); white-space: nowrap; display: inline-block;">MAY 11, 2015</time></h2></a></article></li><li style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><article class="story theme-summary"><a class="story-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/business/obamas-push-for-trade-deal-faces-bipartisan-peril-in-house.html" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="skipped" style="display: block; color: rgb(50, 104, 145); text-decoration: none;"><div class="thumb" style="float: left; clear: none; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 65px; height: auto; position: relative; max-width: 65px; cursor: pointer;"><img alt="“We’re not quite there, but we’re getting close,” said Representative Paul D. 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color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Republican leaders then passed a stand-alone trade promotion bill, but that would force the Senate to take up a trade bill all over again. And without trade adjustment assistance alongside it, passing trade promotion authority in the Senate would be highly doubtful.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="379" data-total-count="1850" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-4" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The vote was an extraordinary blow to Mr. Obama, who went to the Capitol on Friday morning to plead personally with Democrats to “play it straight” — to oppose trade promotion if they must but not to kill trade assistance, a move he cast as cynical. 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Harris</h2> <time class="comment-time" datetime="" style="font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 0.9375rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 5px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">5 minutes ago</time></header><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">Unfortunately the President has bought into too much of the U of Chicago economic thinking on trade and Goldman Sachs oriented thinking. He...</div></article><article class="comment" data-permid="15201953" style="margin-top: 15px;"><header class=""><h2 class="commenter" style="font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 0.9375rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; display: inline-block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Max</h2> <time class="comment-time" datetime="" style="font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 0.9375rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 5px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">5 minutes ago</time></header><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">I think the biggest problem was the trade agreement was a secret, very few people knew what was in it.How can you vote for something if you...</div></article></div><footer style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-top: 2px;" class=""><ul class="comment-actions" style="margin: 0px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px;"><li class="comment-count" style="font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 1.375rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">SEE ALL COMMENTS</li> <li class="comment-reply" style="font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 1.375rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">WRITE A COMMENT</li></ul></footer></aside><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="360" data-total-count="2210" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-5" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">But a president who has long kept Congress at arm’s length may have paid a price. Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, said Mr. Obama mustered rousing applause Friday morning as he went through the battles he had fought with fellow Democrats — on labor organizing, health care access and environmental protection. But he could not change minds.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="71" data-total-count="2281" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-6" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“I wish there had been much better outreach,” Mr. Cuellar lamented.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>