Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, the fact is that all the reforms that the kind gentleman just spoke of are not going to happen. None of that is happening. The Senate threw that in the trash. So what we have is an Export-Import Bank that has refused to comply with the law over and over again. The fact also remains that nobody here is trying to kill the Export-Import Bank. We aren't. This is the process by which we make it better. Whether or not you sell a jar of pickles or whether you sell an airplane, $120 billion, 51 percent of it goes to 10 companies. You figure it out. You figure out what that looks like to you. To me, it looks like cronyism. That is what it looks like to me. I come from York, Pennsylvania, and instead of creating thousands and thousands and thousands of jobs, we would like to create tens and hundreds of thousands of jobs by requiring the Bank that is encumbering the United States taxpayer to work with small businesses, the businesses in our town, instead of just going to the big businesses in this country. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.”