On the recordNovember 4, 2015
Look, I stand behind the microphone right now, hopefully helping many of you who support the Ex-Im Bank, to help you stand behind your previous rhetoric. If I remember, as you said, the older--was it archaic?--process that was brought last week, I noticed the rule you brought allowed me to bring my reform amendment because you were reforming the--oh, that is right. You didn't. You did not allow us to have that voice on those reforms. It was not a process. So now guess what is going on? We happen to have regular order, an opportunity to walk up and say we have some little ideas that we believe make the institution better. To my friend over on the left, okay, 59 credit enhancement, surety enhancement organizations. All this amendment does is it says, if you are competing against someone who is using another country's credit enhancement, you get to use ours. Isn't that what you are asking for reformwise? If you want to level the playing field, what a great idea. If they are using it, we get to use it. If they are not using it, we don't have to. That is reform, and that matches up with the rhetoric I was hearing around here last week of how you were reforming the institution.
