[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12158]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

  (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, only one of the top 
ten exporting countries in the world does not have an export-import 
agency that helps them finance new export deals, just one, and that 
country is the United States of America. That is because this Congress 
has failed to do what every Congress since FDR has done, and that is 
reauthorize the Export-Import Bank.
  Today, Mr. Speaker, an American exporter is forced to compete against 
China, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan with one hand 
tied behind its back. Their businesses get the support, their citizens 
get the jobs, and Americans are hung out to dry by their own 
government.
  In my congressional district alone, 66 small businesses in the past 8 
years have benefited from Export-Import financing of their exports. 
They have exported everything from peanut butter to industrial 
equipment.
  Mr. Speaker, let's give Congress a chance to save American jobs. 
Let's have an up-or-down vote on the Export-Import Bank. If it came to 
a vote on this floor, it would surely pass.

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