There has been coverage of Congressional Democrats warming up to free trade agreements, mainly because of increased labour and environmental standards:

But responding to one of the biggest objections Democrats raised to DR-CAFTA, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab negotiated a deal with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, to strengthen labor and environmental provisions of the three Latin American free trade agreements and future bilateral trade pacts.

There was a pretty bitter fight over DR-CAFTA, especially among Dems, and it was passed with a narrow margin that included several Democrats. The IP and IT aspects of these agreements don’t seem to make the press as much as some of the other issues, but are definitely an important part to these agreements.