“anti-Semitic incidents in the country are up 70%.”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”
“I've got religious leaders constantly calling me and saying, 'I'm scared. My parishioners are scared.'”

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On the recordJuly 29, 2015
I will yield to anybody on this floor who will say: Mr. Hoyer, you are wrong. Apparently, there is nobody on the floor who is going to suggest that the will of this House, as represented by a majority that would vote on this bill, would not be for extending the Export-Import Bank, saving American jobs, making sure that America is competitive in the international markets. My colleagues, reject this rule. Exercise our responsibility to the American people and to American workers, and let's pass the Export- Import Bank today before we go home.
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Democratic · Maryland
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