[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15548]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   REAUTHORIZE THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

  (Mrs. BUSTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, for too long, this Congress has governed 
from one crisis to the next. Yesterday, when we were just hours away 
from another self-inflicted Washington wound, two news pieces were 
published that I would like to share: number one, the CEO of Honeywell, 
a company with a significant presence in my district, published an 
article about the economic damage of Congress' failure to reauthorize 
the Export-Import Bank; then Bloomberg published a story with the 
headline, ``Boeing Risks Losing $1.1 Billion Jet Order on Ex-Im 
Shutdown.''
  Washington gridlock is putting the jobs of thousands of Americans at 
risk. This includes hundreds of the people I serve in Rockford and the 
Quad Cities.
  But today is a new day; it is a new month. Mr. Speaker, I urge all of 
my colleagues to turn over a new leaf of bipartisanship. Let's work 
together, reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank, and protect these good-paying 
manufacturing jobs before it is too late.

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