On the recordNovember 27, 2018
I thank the ranking member, Mr. Engel, for yielding to me and also for his leadership in helping to bring this bill to the floor. I thank him and his staff for the wonderful work that they have done. I also thank Chairman Royce and his staff for their leadership. I, with both Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel, spoke a lot about this bill and why it is important that we pass this particular bill. I thank my colleagues, Representative Castro and Representative Poe, who helped on this bill. I thank them for their work on the committee, and also Representative McCaul for signing on as a bipartisan measure. In fact, in the next few days, on Friday, Representative McCaul, myself, and a delegation will be going over to Mexico for the swearing in. I think this is a very appropriate time, as Mr. Engel mentioned, to have this bill to send this positive message. This bill is important in many ways. It is bipartisan legislation that promotes mutual national security interests and economic partnership and cooperation between the United States and Mexico, with a focus on the energy, health, entrepreneurship, and education sectors. Mexico is one of the United States' top trading partners, with an estimated $615 billion in two-way trade between those two countries, which means that every day there is more than $1.3 billion of trade between the U.S. and Mexico. That means that every single minute you are talking about more than $1 million of trade between the U.S.…
