{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://clyburn.house.gov/press-release/congressman-clyburn-asks-support-reauthorization-export-import-bank", "Congressman Clyburn Asks For Support of the Reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank", "2014-06-26", "2014", "2014-06", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "James Clyburn", "C000537", "clyburn.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "(Columbia, SC) \u2013 House Assistant Democratic Leader and South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn sent today the following letter and attachments to his fellow members of the South Carolina Congressional Delegation:\nDear South Carolina Colleague,\nI am writing you on behalf of the economic competitiveness of our state and our working people and asking you to join me in supporting the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.\u00a0 As you know, exports play a major role in our state\u2019s economy, constituting nearly 15 percent of Gross Domestic Product.\u00a0 Recent growth in South Carolina exports has been driven largely by the Boeing Company, which has created more than 6,000 jobs (and counting) in North Charleston and many more at suppliers throughout the state.\u00a0 To ensure that their exports are competitive in the global market, Boeing and many other South Carolina companies rely on loans, guarantees, and export-credit insurance from the Export Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank).\u00a0 Over the past 18 months, the Ex-Im Bank has supported nearly $700 million in South Carolina export sales by 29 companies, including 18 small businesses.\u00a0 I have enclosed a list of those businesses.\u00a0 The Ex-Im Bank provides this support at no cost to the taxpayer.\u00a0 It actually turns a small profit, which reduces the deficit.\nWith the Ex-Im Bank\u2019s authorization set to expire in September, South Carolina jobs will be at risk unless Congress acts to reauthorize it.\u00a0 Earlier this month the South Carolina Legislature enacted the enclosed resolution urging Congress to do so.\u00a0 Any argument that the Ex-Im Bank is unnecessary ignores the fact that foreign governments will continue to support their companies in similar ways.\u00a0 If Congress lets the Ex-Im Bank die, Boeing and other South Carolina companies would find themselves at a competitive disadvantage, and our working people would suffer grievous harm.\u00a0 Regardless of what our ideological predilections dictate should happen in a perfect world, we must take the world as we find it and not abandon South Carolina jobs to the whims of partisan politics.\nI ask that you join me in calling on Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid to take up reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank and bring it to a vote as soon as possible.\u00a0 If Congress fails to act on behalf of America\u2019s economic competitiveness against our global rivals, working South Carolinians will directly bear the burden of that failure.\u00a0 We must not allow that to happen.\nWith best regards, I am\nSincerely,\nJames E. Clyburn  \n\tMember of Congress", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://clyburn.house.gov/press-release/congressman-clyburn-asks-support-reauthorization-export-import-bank"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7256129756569862, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}