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McConnell: USMCA a 'next-year issue'

October 16, 2018 at 3:36 PM
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday put to rest thoughts of a vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement this year. “That'll be a next-year issue because the process we have to go through doesn't allow that to come up before the end of this year,” he told Bloomberg Television . That process, under the 2015 Trade Promotion Authority law, makes a vote on a USMCA implementing bill likely next March. But some lawmakers have suggested that a vote could...


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