Republican Senators Push for USMCA Vote During Lame Duck
Ten Republican senators, led by avid free-trader Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, wrote to the White House Nov. 20 recommending a lame-duck session vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. "We are concerned that if the Administration waits until next year to send…
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to Congress a draft implementing bill, passage of the USMCA as negotiated will become significantly more difficult," they wrote. They said that fast track requires a 30-day waiting period between the final legal text's submission and a draft implementing bill's submission, but said that final legal text could be sent before the signing.