Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise today to encourage my colleagues to support my amendment, which would direct the newly titled United States Export Finance Agency to include in its outreach plan an emphasis on small businesses in sectors impacted by retaliatory tariffs. For nearly a century, the Export-Import Bank has been a powerful force for creating the good-paying jobs of the future by ensuring that small businesses can compete on a fair and global playing field. Mr. Chair, today we recognize our phenomenal chair of the Financial Services Committee for her leadership and stewardship in seeing us to this point. It has been through consistency, it has been through commitment to our small businesses that we arrive at this place where today we will be voting this bill into law, for we must compete in foreign markets, we must not cede any ground to China, and we certainly must prevent any uncertainty making its way into our marketplace here in America. So that is why today is particularly significant if we reflect on the past when it was called into question if this Export-Import Bank would be reauthorized. Today we are renaming it and reclaiming our ground.…”