Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Louisiana. Again, I thank you for including the piece of this bill on exports because we have waited so long to include it. This is something that came out of the Commerce Committee. So I appreciate the Small Business Committee being willing to put this amendment in there, a bipartisan amendment. It went through the Commerce Committee unanimously, with the sole focus of helping small- and medium-sized businesses, people who do not have the resources, that when they want to send their products, 30 percent of them say they want to export. They look at the world, and it looks like one of those ancient maps where you do not see all the countries. They do not have contacts out there. They do not know someone in Kazakhstan or someone in Turkey or someone in Morocco, but yet someone there wants their product. So the whole idea was to have some resources, some tools, so they can access those markets.…”