Speaker Boehner's comments on Export-Import Bank are a boon to conservatives

Examiner Congressional Reporter Susan Ferrechio reports that House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he would support a bill to wind down the Export-Import Bank — an increasingly important totem of industrial policy for both the conservative wing of the GOP and the K Street wing of the party. But the Ohio Republican made it clear that he did not want the House to, through inaction, let the agency’s charter expire June 30.

This puts Boehner at odds with Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, whose prescribed course of action is to simply let Ex-Im expire, passing nothing out of the committee or through the House.