I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request--H.R. 597

We have now had this experience of 3\1/2\ months-- really 4 months because we are at the end of October--with no opportunity for a small business to actually look at how they could grow that small business. We know we have lost jobs all…

once again we are down on the floor of the Senate, begging, pleading, and trying to get anyone to listen to our pleas to once again open the Export-Import Bank. As we look at the consequences of having closed--for the last 3\1/2\…

I thank my great colleague from New Hampshire, who has done so much in her State to raise awareness about the importance of the Ex-Im Bank and who has also stood firm with the two great Senators from Washington, the Senator from Missouri…

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…

yesterday was a great day, and it was a great day not just because something we have worked so long and hard on actually was advanced, and that we care about, reopening the Ex-Im Bank, but it was when a majority of people in the U.S…

we are on the floor in celebration of the American democracy, that occasionally things can work, and that we can overcome extremes in our country and actually pull together to do something for American manufacturers, to do something for…

One of the issues we heard so often during this debate has been that the private sector will step in, that the private sector will take on this responsibility, that we don't need to have the Export-Import Bank, that the private sector will…

As we prepare for our national defense, we cannot do this without preparing for an international defense.

I think it is something that I think gets ignored, to our peril, and having such high level analysis and bipartisan analysis, I think, is hugely helpful.

Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you to my great colleague from the great State of West Virginia, a State that has been powering America for many years--in fact, from the very beginning. My thanks go to all of the great workers and coal…

I think to Senator Lankford, Chairman Lankford's point, how do we get more agencies to get ahead of it and then make this a priority as they are looking at the workforce?