president<u+00a0>barack obama<u+00a0>is ramping up efforts to convince individual house members to grant him fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals, focusing his efforts on a dwindling group of undecided democratic lawmakers.









but democrats who have already backed the deal publicly said these members need to be convinced they are not trading away their own political futures for a vote on fast-track. potentially decisive are moderate, pro-growth members of the new democrat coalition. its vice-chair, rep.<u+00a0>jim himes<u+00a0>(d., conn.), spoke as recently as monday to the president, after fielding calls from the white house during last week<u+2019>s recess as well.
white house makes trade pitch, with focus on moderates
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