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Pence Returns To Pennsylvania To Urge Trade Pact's Passage

SHADY GROVE, Pa. (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence is in Pennsylvania again to urge Congress to pass President Donald Trump's rewrite of a trade pact with Canada and Mexico.

Pence toured a crane manufacturing facility in southern Pennsylvania on Thursday, a few miles from the Maryland border, and told hundreds of workers there the pact is a good deal for American manufacturing.

It was Pence's second visit in two months to the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, after he visited a York-based robotics maker in June.

The visit comes as House Democrats and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer report progress toward a deal that would clear the way for Congress to approve Trump's U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Pennsylvania is important to Trump's re-election campaign next year, a state where he scored a surprise win in 2016's presidential election.

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