Political Quotes

“I support the chairman of the Banking Committee and his call for us to come together this week to support the expansion of the Export-Import Bank. It is an extremely successful tool to use to help small, medium, and large businesses to be able to compete overseas and to give small businesses--particularly Main Street businesses--the help they need to succeed in overseas markets, which can be very daunting. I thank the chairman for his strong support and the way he worked in a bipartisan manner. I plan to vote for that amendment tomorrow. The biggest vote we are going to take tomorrow is not on the Ex-Im Bank. That is something that I think there is generally broad support for, a general understanding, and a general level of comfort with, although there will be some who do not vote for the expansion of the bank because they philosophically are opposed to a muscular role of government. Those of us who believe that the private sector, the government, and nonprofits all need to have muscle working together on behalf of the people we seek to serve will most certainly not allow ideology to get in the way of voting for a good idea such as the Ex-Im Bank. That is not our problem. Our problem is the IPO legislation. I call this the ``ill-advised political opportunity'' bill, the Jumpstart America bill, the JOBS bill. It has several names, but what it does is deregulate financial markets under the guise of job creation.…”