Political Quotes

“I am sorry that the gentleman from North Carolina is still bemoaning the fact that the first bill that we negotiated is not before us. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time. As we close this debate, and this is the last amendment before us, I do want to reiterate that I am grateful to Chairwoman Waters. Again, I want to thank the gentlewoman for ignoring the requests from the extreme left of her own party and their demands for having the Bank ban coal technology exports. There are some minor environmental provisions in here that have a negative impact on American industries and their ability to sell overseas, but I am grateful that she ignored the request from members of her party on the extreme left and their demands to tell the Bank to stop funding coal and only fund clean energy projects; so the Bank will continue to be able to fund coal and cleaner coal technology exports in adherence with the environmental standards of the regime they are sending. It could have been absolutely devastating in terms of the consequences on energy production, but they simply chose to do minor things. I think that is a laudatory thing that deserves some bipartisan praise that the extreme left did not win the day in terms of that piece of policy in this bill. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on final passage of this bill. We will have an extension of the Bank. We will continue to use Export-Import financing for perhaps up to 2 percent of our exports.…”