Steve Stivers: “First, I want to commend the gentlewoman from New York for her work on this. I think it is a great idea to have paid…”

“First, I want to commend the gentlewoman from New York for her work on this. I think it is a great idea to have paid interns at the Ex-Im Bank. The sad part is it is not going to happen because this bill is not going to become law. Republicans agreed unanimously to support a bipartisan compromise, the Waters-McHenry bipartisan deal on Ex-Im Bank, that would have actually reauthorized the Ex-Im Bank and done it in a bipartisan way. Unfortunately, we are here on a partisan process. I have always supported the Ex-Im Bank. I signed the discharge petition last time for the Ex-Im Bank, but I can't support this product. Luckily, we have a path forward through the appropriations process, and we will be reauthorizing the Ex-Im Bank on the CR. I think this general idea is a good idea, and I hope the gentlewoman will push it in the version that gets in the CR because this version, unfortunately, Mitch McConnell has said is dead in the Senate and it is under a veto threat. So I do encourage my colleagues to support this amendment, but, unfortunately, it is not going to become law. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 0930”