Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I would just encourage those talks to move as quickly as they can, because as we share the interest of making sure that not only do we have better agreements, which this USMCA deal that was negotiated with Mexico and Canada does have better provisions for the United States, we need to make sure that there is proper enforcement, because if somebody doesn't follow through, then we need to make sure we can hold them accountable. While I am confident that there are already enforcement provisions in the agreement, if they can be made stronger, I know Ambassador Lighthizer is working to find a way to do that, but also in a way that doesn't start the whole process over, where we don't have to open the entire agreement up and then Mexico, which has already ratified it, would have to go back. Canada stands waiting to move on it as well, but right now, we are the holdup. There are a lot of jobs at stake, over 160,000 jobs. Our farmers are counting on this. So many other manufacturing sectors in our economy are counting on this. So, hopefully, we can move quickly to work through these and then ultimately get it passed and move to the next countries that want to enter into agreements with the United States, and ultimately to confront China, to resolve the differences that we are having with China. But I know the gentleman is working on his side.…”