[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10324]
[From the U.S. 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 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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