If a Doha agreement ever reaches the House floor, the fight over CAFTA will seem but a skirmish.

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C. city council, in which a councilmember accused Uber founder Kalanick of backing out of an agreement to set a pricing floor at the last minute in exchange for exempting Uber from regulation, making it legal for Uber to run its livery service in DC.

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But there is little agreement about how to put a floor under the exchange rates.

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That agreement helped prevent some controversial proposals from reaching the floor, where debate could have delayed efforts to send legislation to Clinton before the April 30 deadline.

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With a vote of 89-8 in the Senate, clearly a decisive, non-partisan agreement was achieved meaning the bill produced would get an up or down vote on the floor of the House.

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Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, tried to bring up the bill after leaders of the Senate and the White House were unable to reach agreement, saying the only way to proceed was to "hear out the other ideas" in a floor debate.

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While the last minute and intensive negotiations led to success in the upper chamber of Congress, the battle is far from over as it remains to be seen whether the House of Representatives will approve the bi-partisan agreement or, for that matter, whether the bill will be permitted to even come to the House floor for a vote.

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