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this is an unseemly business to those of us sitting here where basically we have created this entity to create financing to compete with other countries that are basically racing to the bottom.

I think you can see why this would be--we understand the business you are in, and I was going to allude to you after 2012 needing to try to get other countries to lower this amount of activity.

I was fairly offended to realize that the Ex-Im Bank basically has taken on some of the Administration's policies without Congress being involved in any way.

We are involved in a race to the bottom with these export credit agencies.

I had an amendment a couple years ago to make sure that Ex-Im Bank was actually the lender of last resort.

So let me just--Ms. Dempsey, if you would, on Boeing, since everybody wants to talk about Boeing--and I have nothing against Boeing. I like flying in the airplanes that they build.

I am in the category of just trying to understand and to try to make a good decision on behalf of the people that I represent.

On one hand, I have led the charge to wind down Fannie and Freddie, you know, which have $5 trillion in mortgages, and to create a more dynamic system where you do not have two behemoths that basically dominate the housing industry.

So it is not that they are worried about the credit. It is that the Eximbank is able to give these companies--these countries, companies, State-owned enterprises--terms that are comparable to what Boeing's competition is using.

I rise today to speak on the matter before us, which is the trade promotion authority that is so important to our Nation. I realize that whenever we deal with issues such as this, there are always parochial issues that people deal with in…