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Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2015

Floor Speech

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: Oct. 27, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Economy and Fiscal

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Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman.

There is a better way to do this. It is called regular order through the committee process, bring it to the floor, and make amendments. However, when that doesn't prevail, the rules allow for what we are doing today, which is exceedingly important.

I would say this: the Ex-Im Bank does not take deposits; it makes deposits, and it makes deposits that help us with our deficit. The numbers have been called to our attention: in 2013, about $1 billion; in 2014, $675 million. But the Ex-Im Bank has done something more important than all of these things that have been called to our attention for the most part.

I think one of the most significant things that it has done is it has caused us to do something that we couldn't do for ourselves, and that is create the bipartisanship necessary to span the chasm of partisanship that has manifested itself in this House for too long.

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