Political Quotes

“we have been promised repeatedly since the end of June that we would be given an opportunity to reopen the Ex- Im Bank, that we would be given the tools to get the Ex-Im Bank operating and providing credit to American manufacturers. If you had told me that the end of July would come and go without putting the Bank back in business, I would have said: That won't happen. If you had told me that we would go through all of August and all of September without putting the Bank back in business, I would not have thought that could happen. We are now at the end of October and, quite frankly, we are at the end of our patience--and so are American manufacturers and so are American workers. The time to deal with reopening the Bank, the time to move this legislation is right now. The patience has run thin. The promises have never materialized in terms of moving this forward. We were told in the very early stages, back when we began to move this issue, that the only way we could possibly get it through the House of Representatives was if it were put on a must-pass piece of legislation, something such as the reauthorization of the surface transportation bill--whether we are going to have highway bills or whether we are going to put it on the debt limit or whatever it is-- because the House couldn't possibly move this legislation forward without any opportunity to put it on something else. That myth has disappeared. That theory is no longer available.…”