Three trade pacts get rare bipartisan support

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The House and Senate on Wednesday took a rare day off from interparty bickering to pass three free-trade agreements endorsed by President Obama.

“It’s a bipartisan day,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Wednesday prior to a scheduled late-night vote and certain passage of trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.

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