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Pelosi: Democrats Will Sign Ex-Im Discharge Petition

By JM Rieger
Posted October 1, 2015 at 5:38pm

By JM Rieger and Matt Fuller

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With the Export-Import Bank future still in doubt, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday Democrats would sign on to a Republican-led discharge petition for the embattled export-credit agency.Pelosi, speaking at her weekly on-camera news conference, said Democrats would support the discharge petition from Tennessee Republican Stephen Fincher for the Ex-Im Bank, as long as Fincher collected enough signatures from Republicans first so that, with the addition of the Democratic Caucus, it would trigger a vote. Read more.

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