Rubén Hinojosa: “I am honored to yield 3 minutes to my colleague from New Jersey (Mr. Holt).”

The Export-Import Bank is a vital free market, economic engine for our manufactures, producers, and exporters.

I am encouraged that we are doing some things right and helping a lot of people who under the conditions that our ranking member, Bobby Scott, gave that could not afford it or had preexisting medical conditions, are now covered.

But let us not say that $1 billion increase as was pointed out by Ms. Bauscher is too much because I was voting to approve for many, many years, 12, 13 years, spending $10 to $12 billion a month in our war in Iraq and Afghanistan. So $1…

Raising the debt ceiling is the only responsible thing to do, in my opinion.