Political Quotes

“I see other colleagues here ready to make presentations, but I just want to make two final points. If my colleagues want a full-throated debate, then move the nomination onto the floor and out of the committee. Let's have the debate. My colleagues are using the nomination to reemphasize and relitigate the Ex-Im Bank. Let's do it. In the meantime, let's appreciate that, in spite of everything that is being said here, we need the Bank to be competitive. We need the Bank to make sure that we can, in fact, manufacture in this country. And that is something that gets lost in all the rhetoric. I think one of the things we have an obligation to think about is all those jobs that are going to go someplace else and all those Americans who are going to stand in the line for unemployment benefits and who are going to get their pink slips. And who in the U.S. Senate wants to line up at the factory door as they are walking through the last time and shake their hand and say: You know, too bad you lost your job. So I yield the floor, and I intend to have further debate about the Export-Import Bank. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.”