Sunday in the Senate: Health care and lending bank on agenda

“We shouldn’t even have the export import bank because all it does is pick winners and losers in the marketplace”.

The US Inspector General noted in a 2012 report to Congress that the bank failed to collect adequate credit information and history from borrowers.

The leader had bucked his conservative flank led by Sen. They need to understand the value of the Ex-Im Bank to America and hopefully if they look at the facts they might change their minds. It uses taxpayer dollars to subsidize goods and services that benefit foreign regimes, including Russian Federation and China. Immediate action is required and if it does not happen within the next six months the doors of the EX-IM Bank will come permanently shut.

Senate Democrats have blocked an amendment to repeal Obamacare that Mitch McConnell attached to the transportation bill.

The JEC was created when Congress passed the Employment Act of 1946, according to the JEC’s website.

Orrin Hatch, the most senior Republican in the body, said during a rare Sunday session. Dan Coats, D-Ind.; the vice chair is Republican Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas. “Members committed to limited government should instead support the Transportation Empowerment Act (HR 2716), which returns most infrastructure spending decisions back to the states”.

“The supporters of Ex-Im can still lose a vote, of course”. And everyone supports doing all of this while reducing the deficit. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Boeing, GE, Business Roundtable and National Association of Manufacturers spent a combined $46.9 million on lobbying in the period between April 1 and June 30. They don’t care how well the law works, or how many people that it helps. It is expected that the bank’s operating budget will be funded for fiscal year 2016 under the normal appropriations process, but given the politically charged environment around the bank, nothing is certain. Thanks to this prudence, Ex-Im actually turns a profit and returned a $675 million surplus to the U.S. Treasury previous year.

Thank you for the insightful editorial on the Export-Import Bank (TNT, 7-22).

“The ex-import bank is directly or indirectly responsible for quite a few jobs in my district”, Congressman Tom Marino said. I also said publicly that the highway bill would be an obvious place to have that vote. Sixty-five Senators appear to support reauthorizing the bank, but have not been given the opportunity to vote on a reauthorization bill.

The bank claims to have a small business program. Roosevelt as a way for American firms to export business to the Soviet Union.

Most businesses are not familiar with the EX-IM Bank and that is a flaw in its marketing or outreach. It’s time for Republican House leadership to quit playing politics and allow a simple vote on legislation that would renew it. It quoted President Ronald Reagan as saying the bank “contributes in a significant way to our nation’s export sales”, and President George W. Bush acknowledged that it “helps advance U.S. trade policy, facilitate the sale of U.S. goods and services overseas and create jobs here at home”.

“This is a high and holy calling, it is not something to take for granted”, Hatch said, lecturing his junior colleagues, each of whom is running for president in his first term in the Senate.

“It’s time to put the economic interests of American businesses and workers over political ideologies”, Rep. Maloney said.