News
18 April 2016

Senate Banking Committee halt on US Ex-Im nominee costing US $50m a day

Region:
Americas

US Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, last week said he wouldn't allow the Senate Banking Committee that he chairs to confirm a nominee to the board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Forbes' Loren Thompson examines how the delay in reaching a quorum for US...

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