[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10325]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      STEVE WILBURN DOESN'T GET IT

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, there is just one 
more congressional workday before the charter for the U.S. Export-
Import Bank expires. If Republicans allow it to expire, thousands of 
Americans will lose their jobs and many small-business owners will be 
hurt, people like Steve Wilburn.
  Steve is a pretty amazing guy. He is a former marine who was wounded 
in Vietnam; he owns a small business, and he is a Republican. Today, 
Steve runs
a biomass-to-energy company, and thanks to the help of our Ex-Im Bank, 
he had a tentative $300 million deal with the Philippines; but they 
sent him a letter saying that, if the Ex-Im Bank goes under, so does 
his deal. Steve won't get the contract, and instead, it will go to a 
South Korean firm using a South Korean export bank.
  Perhaps our ideologically driven friends on the right can explain to 
Steve and to his employees who are going to lose their jobs why this is 
a good thing.
  We should join together. Let's pass the Ex-Im Bank for American jobs.

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