Reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank won’t stop jobs from going overseas

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The Republican-led House of Representatives has voted to reauthorize the physical embodiment of crony capitalism that is the Export-Import Bank. The Senate shouldn’t follow the House’s lead.

Conservatives on Capitol Hill managed to kill the Export-Import Bank earlier this year, but in a rare display of “bipartisanship,” 62 Republicans teamed up with 184 Democrats to force a vote to reauthorize the much maligned agency.

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