June 21, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 105 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                 UNITED STATES-MEXICO-CANADA AGREEMENT

  (Mr. HAGEDORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAGEDORN. Madam Speaker, today I rise to encourage the Speaker of 
the House to give expeditious consideration of the United States-
Mexico-Canada Agreement. There is progress on this agreement being 
made. The country of Mexico, their senate just ratified it. Canada is 
looking to move very quickly, and it is critically important that we do 
the same.
  Along those lines, 1,000 groups in this country: manufacturing, 
agriculture, transportation, and processing groups have written us and 
said: We need to get this deal done now.
  In Minnesota, it is not just agriculture. It is machinery. It is 
manufacturing. It is medicine, and people like my friends at the Farm 
Bureau, AgriGrowth, poultry, dairy, pork; you name it, everybody wants 
it done.
  If we can get this Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement with the United 
States done, we are going to build momentum for our deals with China, 
Japan, South Korea, Colombia, and the European Union.
  We should be dropping down the barriers, expanding our trade, 
creating economic growth, creating high-wage jobs, and helping the 
American people and our consumers.

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