White House: confident free trade pacts will pass

WASHINGTON, June 28 | Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:34pm EDT

WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - The Obama administration said on Tuesday that it expected lawmakers to agree to a compromise package of measures to approve long delayed trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.

"We're confident that we will have a process that will lead to the passage of all of these measures together," a senior administration official told reporters via conference call.

(Reporting by Doug Palmer and Alister Bull; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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