[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 8944-8945]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     SUPPORT THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, well, once again, the Republican leadership 
in Congress is bringing us to the brink, this time by endangering 
hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs by threatening the Export-
Import Bank.
  The Export-Import Bank gives American manufacturers the tools that 
they need to sell U.S. goods overseas. That is direct and real support 
for American businesses and real jobs for American workers, and it is 
all at no cost to the taxpayers.
  For ideological reasons, this Bank could close by June 30 if Congress 
does not act. It is more of the same of this sort of reckless 
brinksmanship and irresponsible behavior that we have seen from the 
Republican leadership in Congress.
  One might ask: Why would you threaten hundreds of thousands of

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American jobs just to make an ideological point? If you want to make a 
point, send a letter; don't threaten the American worker to pursue an 
extreme ideological agenda.
  Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. Let's end the political games. Let's 
get back to the work we were sent here to do and support the Export-
Import Bank and our small businesses and the hard-working Americans 
that depend upon that.

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