Political Quotes

“I thank you so much, Madam Ranking Member. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise to support this bipartisan initiative to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The Export-Import Bank is about three things in this country that we need to be debating here more often, and that is jobs, jobs, and jobs. Getting the bill to the floor for this historic vote is about something the country also needs more of, and that is bipartisanship. I am very distressed, Mr. Speaker, to continue to hear the debate that somehow the financing of the Export-Import Bank is contributing to the welfare state and that, if we are to tackle the social welfare programs under Social Security, we have got to get rid of this corporate welfare. I am distressed to continue to hear that defeating the Export-Import Bank is a backdoor approach to ending Social Security. If you listen very carefully, colleagues, you are going to hear this over and over again. I do want to thank Representatives Hoyer, Lucas, Waters, Heck, Fincher, and the House Members on both sides so that we can now go back to our districts, look U.S. workers in the eyes and say that we are not giving them welfare, that we are giving the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people in the chain an opportunity to work for a living. This is not a Democrat or a Republican victory, but a victory for all our workers. I would ask that the body vote for the reauthorization of the Export- Import Bank.…”