<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">House majority leader: USMCA bill could be considered next Wednesday</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">12/12/2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) expects the administration will submit the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s implementing bill to Capitol Hill soon so that it can be considered next Wednesday.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-color: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">“It is possible that the USMCA trade agreement could be brought to the floor next week,” he said on the House floor on Thursday. “[T]he administration is working on submitting implementing legislation to the Congress.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-color: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Hoyer’s “presumption” is that the administration will submit the bill to Capitol Hill in the “the relatively near term and it will be available for consideration next Wednesday,” he added.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-color: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) on Tuesday said he would “begin to share” details on the changes to USMCA with fellow lawmakers <a href="https://insidetrade.com/node/167805" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">before any “expedited” moves</span></a> were made to bring a USMCA bill to the floor. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Mexican Under Secretary for North America Jesús Seade signed a USMCA “protocol of amendment” outlining the changes later that day.</span></p></div><br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">Arthur Stamoulis</div><div class="">Citizens Trade Campaign</div><div class="">(202) 494-8826</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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