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| https://cunningham.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-amid-impeachment-drama-congress-also-moves-forward-bills-help-sc-post-and | ICYMI: Amid impeachment drama, Congress also moves forward with bills that help SC | Post and Courier | 2019-12-20 | 2019 | 2019-12 | Democrat | House | SC | Joe Cunningham | C001122 | cunningham.house.gov | legacy | IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Post and Courier: Amid impeachment drama, Congress also moves forward with bills that help SC December 19, 2019 Mere hours after the House of Representatives erupted in vicious partisan warfare over the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the very same lawmakers cheerfully united Thursday to overwhelmingly approve a sweeping new trade deal with Canada and Mexico. The long-awaited U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, now poised to replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement after a 385-41 vote, could offer a significant boost to South Carolina's economy, which provided more than $6.7 billion worth of exports to the country's two neighbors in 2018. Before both impeachment and the trade deal, the House approved a $1.3 trillion spending deal Tuesday that ensures the federal government won't experience a shutdown for the second consecutive year and includes funding for several key Palmetto State priorities. The dizzying series of events in a frantic final week before lawmakers head home for the holidays underscored a dynamic that rarely makes it onto cable news or in partisan shouting matches on the House floor: Even in these polarizing times, lawmakers are still able to come together to, at least occasionally, pass major legislation. U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham, who supported all three of the major votes this week, said the busy few days encapsulated the dual role he hoped to play when he got to Congress earlier this year as Charleston's first Democratic congressman in decades. Our district has entrusted me to work with the president when we agree with him and also to be a check on him when we disagree with him, Cunningham said. Impeachment is the latter, and the former comes when we pass the USMCA. So I think this week is a great example of it. [] In a floor speech before the USMCA vote, Cunningham said it will benefit Lowcountry manufacturers and businesses like Bosch, JW Aluminum and Becton Dickinson by stabilizing the market and ending the trade uncertainty that has hung over the state's economy. Among other items in the spending bills, Cunningham touted $50 million to improve community infrastructure surrounding military installations, $53 million for Alzheimer's funding, $10 million for cybersecurity institutions at military colleges including The Citadel, and an amendment to combat illegal fishing abroad, which Lowcountry fishermen complain undercuts them. READ THE FULL STORY HERE | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |