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House GOP to Senate: We’re not taking up your highway bill
The Hill ^
| July 27, 2015
| Scott Wong
Posted on 07/27/2015 12:35:31 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: DannyTN
Why Hillary Clinton Loves The Ex-Im Bank
When youre exploring a run for the presidency, its never too early to start buttering up potential campaign donors. That is likely what Hillary Clinton had in mind when she used a seemingly innocuous conference on women and girls in Little Rock, Arkansas as a platform to plug the controversial Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank of the United States. . . .
In October 2009, Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, visited a Boeing plant in Moscow. She was delighted, she said in her remarks there, that a new Russian airline, Rosavia, is actively considering the acquisition of Boeing aircraft. She then made what she called a shameless pitch for Rosavia
to buy Boeing aircraft. Earlier in her speech, Clinton lauded the Ex-Im Banks long history of supporting exports to Russia, including the sale of aircraft. To drive her pitch home, she exhorted, The Ex-Im Bank would welcome an application for financing from Rosavia to support its purchase of Boeing aircraft.
A lengthy report in the Washington Post on Clintons beneficial relationship with Boeing lays out the subsequent chain of events.
Boeing made a formal bid for the Rosavia contract only three days after Clinton made her shameless pitch. Just over a month later, Boeing donated $2 million toward the United States pavilion at the Shanghai Worlds Fair. The ability to make a substantive American showing at the fair was in doubt, and Clintons efforts including securing the Boeing donation were widely credited with orchestrating a turnaround. It was apparently of no concern that this donation, as reported by the Post, violated State Department ethics guidelines.
To: DannyTN
To: Cincinatus' Wife
And he said its not fair for the Senate to send the House a massive 1,000-plus-page bill just days before the funding deadline.Yes, every house member is going to sit down and read every one of those 1,000 pages, just like every senator did.
I'm sure of that. Boehner told me so.
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:43:16 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: DannyTN
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Whatever happened to all spending bills originate in the House?
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:45:34 PM PDT
by
upsdriver
(Palin/West)
To: DannyTN
Off-shoring is caused by over-regulation and over-taxation, more regulations and taxes won’t help.
I oppose subsidizing business in any form, I also oppose over-regulation and stupid restrictions on some companies in favor of others.
If the bank is that profitable, then totally privatize it
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:46:28 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: DannyTN
That was 30 years ago! The world of international trade has changed dramatically since then.
Even the Washington Post, normally a big backer of anything the dictator wants, concludes that the accounting is erroneous for the Ex-Im bank. Apparently you’ve never done any creative accounting.
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:46:57 PM PDT
by
Calpublican
(Boehner and McConnell are corrupt. All Hail the Uni-Party!!!)
To: mrsmith
40% of the bank’s money subsidizes Boeing, 10% subsidizes GE...Both are huge doners to the Clinton cartel.
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:47:22 PM PDT
by
ThePatriotsFlag
( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
...Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) had teamed up...And there's the problem right there.
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:47:47 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
Thank you for referencing that article Cincinatus' Wife. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
Regarding the so-called federal highway bill, patriots need to consider that, regardless that the RINO-controlled House has read the Constitution out loud at the beginnings of the last three legislative sessions, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for vote-winning intrastate highway purposes.
In fact, when the 14th Congress put a comparable bill on President James Madisons desk to sign in 1817, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, Madison vetoed the bill. He explained to Congress that no clauses in Congresss constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers justified the bill. (The only roads that the states have authorized Congress to build are postal roads (1.8.7).
Veto of federal public works bill
Yes, the nations post-FDR era national highway system was built outside the framework of the Constitution imo, without the required Article V consent of the states; so whats new?.
To: Calpublican
Oh I’ve done creative accounting. But it’s pretty rare when creative accounting generates cash.
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:49:52 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Calpublican
Oh I’ve done creative accounting. But it’s pretty rare when creative accounting generates cash.
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:49:52 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: vbmoneyspender
American Jobs.
Or maybe 100 million Americans on food stamps isnt enough and you want more.
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:52:21 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
government should not be involved in profit-making ventures or subsidizing trade.So you think government should only be involved in profit-killing ventures and subsidizing imports?
non sequitur
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:53:23 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: DannyTN
Or maybe 100 million Americans on food stamps isnt enough and you want more. Yes, because that's the choice. End the Export Import Bank or have 100 million Americans in the poor house. Brilliant argument. Could I take out a loan from the Export Import Bank and donate some of the money to you so that you start making arguments in favor of Democrat talking points.
To: vbmoneyspender
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posted on
07/27/2015 1:59:18 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
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posted on
07/27/2015 2:04:39 PM PDT
by
Calpublican
(Boehner and McConnell are corrupt. All Hail the Uni-Party!!!)
To: DannyTN
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posted on
07/27/2015 2:04:57 PM PDT
by
Calpublican
(Boehner and McConnell are corrupt. All Hail the Uni-Party!!!)
To: Calpublican
Wrong. It still sounds like they are generating cash. Apply whatever accounting method you want, At the end of the day cash is king.
Their default rate is 0.175%. That doesn’t sound like inordinate risk to me.
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posted on
07/27/2015 2:20:22 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The charter for the bank, which provides loan guarantees to help U.S. corporations sell goods overseas, expired on June 30. We spend money on giving corporations help in selling overseas and the companies keep the profit offshore? What a deal.
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posted on
07/27/2015 2:20:28 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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