If this aid is an element in the toolbox--my expression--that facilitates the creation of jobs, then that is fine.

The Export-Import Bank transformed the role of Government from a disinterested referee in the economy into a biased actor that uses your taxpayer dollars to tilt the scales in favor of its friends.

If confirmed, I will support and carry out the President's agenda to pursue trade policies that create American Jobs and are fair to the American worker.

Yes, we have the opportunity today to save capitalism from cronyism. Yes, we have the opportunity to protect the American taxpayer and the American Dream and to preserve free enterprise.

In June of this year, after 81 years of doling out taxpayer-funded welfare for mega-corporations, the American people said enough and Congress let the Export-Import Bank expire. Yet today, through a little-known and little-used legislative…

For the sake of the American taxpayer and preservation of the free enterprise system, Congress should put the Export-Import Bank out of business.

Ex-Im has transformed the role of Government from a disinterested referee that guarantees a free and open marketplace into a biased actor that tilts the scales in favor of its friends and businesses.

I will do everything in my power to see to each and every one of those are completed fully.

The Bank will continue to fully operate, point blank.

It is hard to imagine anything more unfair and un-American than having the Government financially support mega-corporations at the expense of small businesses and American workers.

First, do no harm.