Political Quotes

“Once again, let's go back to the facts. The facts are this is a Republican reform bill. The gentleman from South Carolina is listening. This doesn't cost the taxpayer a dime. The scare tactics from my colleagues that are trying to kill the Bank are not going to work. This returns $500 million to $1 billion per year to the Treasury to help pay down the debt. My colleagues that are in opposition to this talk about us picking winners and losers, the supporters of the Ex-Im Bank. Well, do you know what? We are picking winners: American jobs. Those are the winners here. This is shameful that we are having this debate tonight at 10:00 on an issue that could have been handled in our committee a year ago. And the gentleman talks about hearings. Well, we haven't had any hearings in how many months? I don't know if we have had any this Congress. We had some last Congress. We haven't had any this Congress. This is how we fix issues. We have hearings, we have markups, we debate them in committee, and then we move items to the floor. But that didn't happen this time. So what we have is we have 10 amendments. As the gentleman from Oklahoma said a few minutes ago, the Bank is already dead. They succeeded. But they want to bury the Bank now. Let's put American jobs first and put political scorecards and trying to out-conservative each other for some ranking in some book last. Let's work for our districts and not play political games, Mr. Chairman.…”