Two more state Democrats turn on Obama's trade effort

Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jul 1, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Two more state Democrats turn on Obama's trade effort</h1>
                <h2><p>Seattle Democratic Congressmembers Adam Smith and Denny Heck say they will vote against giving President Barack Obama the enhanced negotiating authority he wants for wrapping up a proposed Pacific free trade deal. Seattlepi.com's Joel Connelly writes that they join Seattle Democrat Jim McDermott in opposing the measure,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Seattle Democratic Congressmembers Adam Smith and Denny Heck say they will vote against giving President Barack Obama the enhanced negotiating authority he wants for wrapping up a proposed Pacific free trade deal. Seattlepi.com's <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/06/11/smith-and-heck-key-votes-will-say-no-to-giving-president-obama-fast-track-trade-authority/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Joel Connelly writes</a> that they join Seattle Democrat Jim McDermott in opposing the measure, meaning that the state's six Democratic U.S. representatives will likely split evenly in Friday's big vote.</p>
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Seattle Democratic Congressmembers Adam Smith and Denny Heck say they will vote against giving President Barack Obama the enhanced negotiating authority he wants for wrapping up a proposed Pacific free trade deal. Seattlepi.com's Joel Connelly writes that they join Seattle Democrat Jim McDermott in opposing the measure, meaning that the state's six Democratic U.S. representatives will likely split evenly in Friday's big vote.

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By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi