Scott Garrett: “But why would we want to extend the taxpayer subsidy and bailout safety net to capital markets and asset management?”

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…

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.

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.

For too long our financial regulatory system has been governed by global networks of really detached elites who believe they are smarter than the market and the people when it comes to allocating and assessing risk.