As more Americans and more members of Congress learned about Ex-Im's political lending, corruption and fundamental unfairness, the more they wanted it to expire, now the challenge for supporters of a competitive free-market economy is to make sure Ex-Im stays expired.

Jeb Hensarling

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We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

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Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

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From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

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President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.

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In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

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The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

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Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

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I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

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I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

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What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

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We hope that we will have Senate action soon and that we can make a huge, huge solid step in unleashing entrepreneurship in America.

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When the dust finally settles, the Administration's trade policy may prove to be brilliant, but in the meantime, [ capital expenditure ] checkbooks are closing and expansion plans are being put on hold as growing uncertainty creeps throughout our economy.

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Not only do tariffs harm American consumers, they harm many American employers and their American workers as well, since over half of our imports are intermediate components or raw materials for American businesses.

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I warned at the time, if we do not fix the problem, we are one major storm away from having to bail it out again, and here we are.

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We are incenting, encouraging and subsidizing people to live in harm’s way, shame on us if all we do is help rebuild the same homes, in the same fashion, in the same place.

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We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral.

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If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

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You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

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Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

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In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

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