On this business about the private sector, who is stopping the private sector from investing or supporting exports?

I don't think that should even be considered. As we look at the needs of rural housing, I think we should be talking about how do we not complicate their problems by consolidating in HUD with anything else.

I am dumbfounded as I watch what we do in this committee. And I don't understand why particularly those representatives who have rural areas in their district don't understand how they can do more to help their rural communities.

I think it is important that we remind everybody that we are approaching that date.

the Bank is a scandal-plagued institution, and have used this excuse to call for the expiration of the Bank's charter in June.

This is serious. And I can assure you that as eager and driven as some Republicans are to let the clock run out on the Export-Import Bank, there are others who are even more hopeful that they will succeed.

Dear Congressman Waters, Hanson Engineering Company is one of the many small businesses in the south Bay area of Los Angeles, California, that is dependent on Boeing contracts to support our business.

I want you to keep going out into America and seeing what these companies are all about.

Even though we have debunked that argument over and over again, I would like to get a better sense of how the Bank indirectly supports small businesses through the supply chains of the larger companies that you support.

Mr. Hochberg, you need to know, and I think you do know that I have held several meetings in my district with small businesses who are directly benefiting from Ex-Im.

And I must say something about SpaceX. It happens to be in my district.