Lacking a board, Ex-Im Bank plays defense at annual conference

Export-Import Bank officials and advocates this week made a case for the bank's mission as it continues to limp along without any Senate-confirmed leadership. “The bank is hobbled,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said on the Senate floor Wednesday ahead of the bank's annual conference. “There will not be a single member of the board of directors to represent the bank at its own conference. Why? Because we haven’t confirmed any of them.” “Instead, the Bank tomorrow will have to warn...