Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON DC If we do not have the opportunity to debate offer amendments and vote on the reauthorization of the (Export-Import) bank it is our constituents who will pay the price" wrote Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and 25 of Republican colleagues in a letter to Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) requesting that he schedule floor time and allow amendments to the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization bill.
Last year (FY 2011) the Export-Import Bank provided $4.7 billion worth of financing to Texas businesses the second highest amount of any state. A digital copy of the letter is attached to this email.