EX-IM BANK/NOMINATION/SCOTT GARRETT: “A long-brewing fight over former Rep. Scott Garrett’s candidacy to lead the Export-Import Bank, an agency he has twice voted to shut down, will come to a head this week when he testifies in front of a Senate panel reviewing his nomination. President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Mr. Garrett, a New […]
Category: Scott Garrett
7/17/2017
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT GARRETT: “President Donald Trump is standing behind former Rep. Scott Garrett, his choice to head the Export-Import Bank, amid escalating pressure from business groups to pull the plug on the nomination. ‘Scott Garrett is imminently [sic] qualified to lead the Ex-Im Bank,’ White House spokeswoman Natalie Strom said in a statement to […]
5/8/2017
EX-IM BANK/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT GARRETT: “Less than two years ago, Scott Garrett, then a Republican congressman from New Jersey, took to the floor of the House of Representatives and laced into his colleagues for resurrecting an institution that ’embodies the corruption of the free enterprise system.’ The institution he derided was the Export-Import Bank. He could […]