United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act
Floor Speech
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Mrs. WAGNER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the USMCA trade agreement.
For months, partisan politics and the Democrats' impeachment charade have prevented us from finalizing this agreement, but it is clear to Members on both sides of the aisle that the President has negotiated a deal that will strengthen our economy and benefit all Missourians and Americans.
One of every three rows of crops is grown for export in the great State of Missouri, and this deal expands market access in Canada and Mexico for our farmers.
It is the first time that a U.S. trade agreement is specifically addressing biotech, and the St. Louis region is the Silicon Valley for ag-tech.
USMCA also includes the Wagner language on human trafficking. I worked with Ambassador Lighthizer to guarantee that the USMCA holds my Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, FOSTA, to help stop online sex trafficking here at home and now throughout North America.
A ``yes'' on the USMCA is a yes for victims, a yes for jobs, a yes for farmers, and a yes for the prosperity of all Americans.
Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote YES on the USMCA trade agreement. For months, partisan politics and the Democrats' impeachment charade have prevented us from finalizing this agreement. But it is clear to members on both sides of the aisle that the President has negotiated a deal that will strengthen our economy and benefit all Missourians.
One of every three rows of crops is grown for exports in the great state of Missouri, and this deal expands market access in Canada and Mexico for our farmers.
The USMCA also includes the ``Wagner Language'' on human trafficking. I worked with Ambassador Lighthizer to guarantee that the USMCA upholds my Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) to help stop online sex trafficking here at home and now throughout North America.
A YES on the USMCA is a yes for victims, a yes for jobs, a yes for farmers, and a yes for the prosperity of all Americans. Thank you. I yield back.
This agreement also benefits Missouri's thriving ag tech community by addressing agricultural biotechnology, including new technologies such as gene editing.
This is the first time U.S. trade agreement is specifically addressing biotech, and the St. Louis region is the Silicon Valley for ag tech. The USMCA will help protect our intellectual property, and I hope it will be a standard for future trade agreements as well.
The Wagner Language allows our trading partners to enact domestic laws that enable victims to sue the websites that facilitate the sex trade and empower law enforcement to enforce criminal laws against the websites that sell women and children. =========================== NOTE ===========================
December 19, 2019, on page H12258, ``*ERR08*'' inadvertently appeared at four places.
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