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“we would like to engage in a discussion of what this means to American workers, to American exports, and to American manufacturing. I think we have worked very, very hard over the last several months to try and move this nomination forward. We fought this fight. Many appearing with me today fought this fight, whether it was on TPA or whether it was just simply trying to get reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank advanced and furthered. We won this fight. Today we are losing the fight again by this restriction, by this inability to move this nomination forward. So we want to talk about this today. I am going to yield to several of my colleagues here for their short comments. We will start with Senator Schumer who has a commitment with the Judiciary Committee.”