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It seems it only takes one anecdote - real or imagined - to convince many lawmakers to intervene in the market, and use the...
Easy access to congressional voting records does wonders for accountability, but it often leads to impressive acts of rhetorical contortion by lawmakers. Last month...
Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI), along with Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ), has introduced the Export-Import Bank Termination Act of 2012 (H.R.4268). As the name suggests...
In 2008, during a campaign speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin, then-Senator Obama called the Export-Import (ExIm) Bank "little more than a fund for corporate...
This week, the Senate will take up a version of the House-passed JOBS Act (H.R.3606). According to CQ (sub. req'd) there will be some...
Ronald Reagan once said that, "The closest thing to eternity is a government program." Case in point: The Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, which has made...