I think it is a really important role.

I hope you are vigorously pursuing everything that you need and that you have all of the tools you need to get those data.

I want to focus on, though, is the importance of collecting the necessary data.

I hope there are no difficulties in data sharing as we go forward, because without good data, you cannot give good independent advice.

I very much appreciate that you are cautious in your data requests, both from other agencies and from financial institutions.

I would like to follow up on where Senator Shelby started, and talking about the goal of the Eximbank is to promote U.S. exports, and, of course, increasing exports is ultimately supposed to create more jobs at home.

Well, I just want to say thank you very much. Thank you for the direction that you are pushing us in trade and for the successes you have had, and I hope we have many more that we can celebrate in 2014.

I am concerned that marketing and outreach are not enough to expand small business lending.

But in some cases, those two things maybe in tension with each other.

I was very pleased to see that in 2013 you committed a greater percentage of your money to small business lending.

the Eximbank's charter makes it clear that the Bank is supposed to supplement private capital.

I think a large part of what we would like to see in supporting this is to go beyond the 20 percent.