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| https://www.heitkamp.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=28e19562-ab11-4fea-9218-6f94dd2be4f1 | Heitkamp Statement on Bipartisan Majority of House Moving to Save the Export-Import Bank | 2015-10-09 | 2015 | 2015-10 | Democrat | House | ND | Heidi Heitkamp | H001069 | www.heitkamp.senate.gov | legacy | BISMARCK, N.D. U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp today issued the following statement after members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a discharge petition a rare parliamentary move requiring 218 members of the House to force a vote to save the Export-Import Bank. Today the House of Representatives came together in overwhelming bipartisan support of saving the Export-Import Bank an institution that has worked for decades to level the playing field for small businesses, helping them to grow jobs and our economy, said Heitkamp. Its now unmistakably clear that Congress is united across party lines to reauthorize the Bank, and we have the votes to do it. This summer, the vast majority of the Senate passed the bipartisan Kirk-Heitkamp bipartisan bill to keep this federal agency running. We need to build on this momentum to reauthorize an agency that for 81 years has boosted American competitiveness at no cost to taxpayers. Lets bring this non-controversial bill up for a vote in the Senate again so the Export-Import Bank can continue its valuable work of growing and maintaining jobs here at home. This summer, 64 Senators voted to include Heitkamp and Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois bill to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank as an amendment to the long-term transportation legislation which passed in the Senate at the end of July. Unfortunately the House of Representatives did not bring it up for a vote but Heitkamp has continued to push for a vote. Todays overwhelming bipartisan push in the House for her legislation shows the clear bipartisan consensus that exists in both houses of Congress to pass Heitkamps legislation to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |