[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 24, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H4603-H4604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
RENEW THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
(Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute.)
Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise at this time to lodge my
objection that this House is going to recess tomorrow without taking up
the renewal of the Export-Import Bank. This is a time when American
businesspeople are doing everything they can think of to compete
abroad. American manufacturers are seeking to export our goods.
This is an outfit that stands up for American exporting
manufacturers. It supports 1.5 million American manufacturing jobs--
good-paying, family-sustaining jobs. We can't recess without renewing
the Export-Import Bank.
In my district alone, 600 people are employed by companies that
benefit
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materially from the Ex-Im Bank: Universal Industrial Gases in Easton;
Fluortek, Inc., in Easton; Victaulic Company of America in Easton;
Noble Biomaterials, Inc., in Scranton; Lehighton Electronics in
Lehighton; and Copperhead Chemical Company in Tamaqua.
Mr. Speaker, we have to do the sensible thing and renew the Export-
Import Bank. It is as plain as the nose on your face; it is as true as
the law of gravity.
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