Jim Nussle: “If men were angels, quoting James Madison, we would not need all of these controls.”

I want to first thank all of the staff that worked so hard to bring us to this point in time and the leadership on the Budget Committee, and I would like to pay a special thanks to the floor staff and the official reporters and the clerk…

Export-Import is self-funding and has generated income for the Treasury since 1992.

We reserve to close. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for 10 minutes.

Except the gentleman forgot Osama bin Laden, and I thank the gentleman for that. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the very distinguished gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan), a member of the committee, so maybe he can answer some of the…