Dems go to mat for mega export subsidies

Published June 9, 2016 2:42pm ET



The National Association of Manufacturers, a powerful K Street industry group which spent $17 million on lobbying last year, is having its fly-in lobby week right now. Sen. Heidi Keitkamp, D-N.D., tried to advance one of NAM’s priorities when she filed a unanimous consent motion to circumvent the Banking Committee and bring to the Senate floor a nomination for the board of the Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. exports.

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