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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill declares that it is the policy of this Act:</p> <ul> <li> that, should the statutory authority for the export loan programs administered by the Export-Import Bank of the United States lapse, the Small Business Administration (SBA) shall serve the Bank's small business clients under existing statutory authority of the Small Business Act;</li> <li> to create an SBA Export Credit Insurance Program similar to the Bank's; and</li> <li> to ensure that small business exporters are served by SBA programs. </li> </ul> <p>The bill also amends the Small Business Act to require the SBA to establish a program to provide insurance for the exports of small businesses, including insurance against nonpayment by international buyers.</p>]]></text>
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