Washington, D.C. — Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says “this day is years in the making” as the Senate Finance Committee, which he chairs, took up the US Mexico Canada Agreement Tuesday morning.
Exactly how soon is the big question, however, as Senate Leader Mitch McConnell will have to schedule the U-S-M-C-A vote around what Grassley calls the “very wild card” of the impeachment of President Trump.
In his decades in office, Grassley says he’s worked on at least 20 major trade agreements, but U-S-M-C-A is unique.
The agreement needs to pass both chambers of Congress. The House ratified U-S-M-C-A in December, the same week it passed the two articles of impeachment.
