GOP Quotes of the Day

As the June 30 deadline for reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank nears, House Republican leaders continue to cater to the far-right wing of their party instead of the American business owners they represent, who receive export financing assistance that helps them compete with businesses overseas. We hope conservatives will end their misguided, ideological crusade against the Bank and heed the advice of their Republican colleagues from South Carolina, Senator Lindsey Graham and Representative Joe Wilson:

“The fact that you would let the [Export-Import] bank expire because of some ideological jihad. … I’m not going to be part of it,” Graham said. “I’m not going to sit on the sidelines and let jobs in my state be lost.”

“As we continue to debate reauthorization, I hope we can focus on the fact of jobs and the more than 60 competing international export credit agencies that undercut and destroy American jobs daily,” GOP Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina said.