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@Jim_Jordan said Ex-Im’s nationwide tour raises concerns regarding anti-lobbying and PR provisions.

Export-Import Bank’s Nationwide Tour Raises Questions of Lobbying, Propaganda

By Heritage Foundation Melissa Quinn——--September 9, 2014

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Just weeks before the Export-Import Bank’s charter expires, top bank officials embarked on a nationwide tour designed to drum up support for the agency. Such actions may flirt with anti-lobbying, propaganda and public-relations provisions put in place to protect taxpayers.
Those recent actions are raising concerns for Congress, said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Jordan said:
We have Commissioner [Fred] Hochberg out in August, a month before the reauthorization runs out … out promoting the virtues of the bank. … It certainly seems like there’s potential concern there. I’m not an expert on the statute, but it would seem there are potential concerns raised.
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