{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.blunt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/blunt-discusses-usmca-agreement", "Blunt Discusses USMCA Agreement", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "MO", "Roy Blunt", "B000575", "www.blunt.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON\r\n At the\r\nweekly Republican leadership press conference today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt\r\n(Mo.) welcomed the agreement reached between President Trump and House\r\nDemocrats to move forward on the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade\r\ndeal. Under USMCA, U.S. agriculture exports are estimated to increase by $2.2\r\nbillion. Following\r\nAre Blunt's Remarks: \r\nWell any time in the last year, including any\r\ntime in the last three months, I've had a lot more questions in Missouri about\r\nwhen are you going to get to USMCA,' than I've had about impeachment. People\r\nthat make pickup trucks, and airplanes, and put things in aluminum cans, and\r\nfarmers who grow crops, all have been waiting for us to step up and see the\r\nCongress deal with the agreement that was negotiated initially over a year ago,\r\nto see the House bring that to the floor so the Senate could then have the\r\nopportunity to deal with it. Anything that's good for us and our relationships\r\nwith our number one trading partner in the world, Mexico, and our number two\r\ntrading partner in the world, Canada, is something that the Congress needs to\r\nget done. It's good for our neighborhood, it's good for the Western Hemisphere,\r\nit's good for workers and paychecks and families.  \r\n\r\nOn\r\nthe three legged stool that you launch an economy with, good tax policy, great\r\nregulatory policy, and good trade policy make all the difference. We've had two\r\nof those going for us, and as we move toward completion of the Japan agreement\r\nbetween now and the first of the year, according to the U.S. Trade Ambassador,\r\nin all likelihood, and getting certainty about USMCA - that third launching pad\r\nof the strongest economy we've seen in 50 years will be in place as well and it\r\nwill make a big difference.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.blunt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/blunt-discusses-usmca-agreement"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4039459638297558, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}