[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6124]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             HOLD THE VOTE

  (Mr. HECK of Washington asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. HECK of Washington. Mr. Speaker, next week we will be out of 
session and back in our districts, and many of us will be visiting 
small businesses, appropriately because it is National Small Business 
Week. We should visit small businesses; we should, frankly, whenever we 
are home.
  Meanwhile, only 25 legislative days remain before a tool used and 
cherished by America's small businesses disappears. Only 25 more 
legislative days before this business tool for small businesses 
vanishes altogether. Only 25 more legislative days, and the Export-
Import Bank will shut its doors to our Nation's small businesses unless 
we hold the vote.
  Mr. Speaker, hold the vote. Hold the vote today. Hold the vote if you 
champion America's small businesses succeeding in global competition. 
The votes are here. Mr. Speaker, hold the vote.

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