Joe Donnelly: “I echo the words of my colleague from North Dakota. I have 6.5 million bosses in Indiana. These think tanks out here…”

“I echo the words of my colleague from North Dakota. I have 6.5 million bosses in Indiana. These think tanks out here, these other organizations, they are not my boss. That family who wants to make sure there is a paycheck coming into the house, and all mom and dad wants is a chance to go to work, they are whom we should be working for--for the same people my colleague from North Dakota works for in Bismarck, in Fargo, in Muncie, in Richmond, in Maryville, in Lafayette, and all of these suppliers around my State whose jobs are dependent on these export opportunities that we are walking away from by standing against the Export-Import Bank. Here we are again, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, talking about our responsibility to do our job and to consider the President's nominees to important Federal offices. The nominee we are talking about, Mark McWatters, is a Republican nominee for the Board of Directors for the Export-Import Bank, and we are all lined up on this side to support him. It is the official export credit agency of the United States. It helps American companies--so many in my State of Indiana--create jobs, an opportunity, and a chance for people to go to work, put a roof over their kids' heads, to be able to retire with dignity, and to be able to compete in a global economy. That is what this is about. Every other country you look at has one of these export-import banks.…”