Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, once again, we are on the floor talking about the importance of the export agency to small business. It is important to small business, which is why, in the Waters-McHenry bipartisan compromise, we had a strong, well-argued, well-focused, well-delivered policy for small business that, unfortunately, Mr. Chairman, is now not in the bill before us today. I want to compliment Mr. McHenry and Ms. Waters for their work together. I wish the Speaker had come to their aid in June to whip the vote for their well-argued compromise. Although, I want to associate myself, as well, with the Speaker's strong comments about China and the 30 years that America has tried since Tiananmen Square to change China's mercantilistic trade policy and be part of the world economy, and it hasn't worked. The Speaker outlined it beautifully today. She talked about her 30-year commitment there. Again, if we want to stop retaliatory tariffs and worrying about retaliatory tariffs, we should use every tool in our armory here to push back against China, to change China's mercantilistic policy. We have done that with CFIUS reform in this House on a bipartisan basis. We have done that with the Asia Reassurance Act in this House on a bipartisan basis. We could have used the Export Finance Agency on a bipartisan basis in a very conscious manner to make sure that the Ex-Im agency credits don't benefit China and their ability to extend their One Belt, One Road work around the world.…”