Thank you, so much, Mr. Chairman.

I would say that there is a lot more risk from Wall Street and from the banking community than there is with the Ex-Im Bank.

I would like to enter into the record an assessment that demonstrates that government export credit pricing, Ex-Im Bank pricing, is on par with commercial markets, and demonstrates that the foreigners are paying more for credit than U.S…

I ask unanimous consent to place two documents in the record: first, as I referenced, 'Cruz Under Fire,' from the Texas businessmen; and second, a statement of support for the Ex-Im Bank from the National Association of Manufacturers.

I struggled to understand how this debate had become so dispatched from the reality of how the Bank operates.

The Bank is a U.S. job creation engine, reauthorization in the past has been bipartisan.

Would it be catastrophic to our economy?

I feel really compelled to address some of the mischaracterizations of the Bank.

But what are we doing now? We are literally saying to those businesses that are supported by Ex-Im and all of the suppliers that go along with that, that this government does not care about them and their ability to do business, they don't…

I still don't like putting 'Dodd' on there, mainly because all of the headaches or an awful lot of the headaches that we have have come about because of the 'Dodd' part of it.

Someone has to start taking responsibility for that, because here we are, and things are coming back, but it took a long time, and a lot of people did lose their homes.