would be slashed by the republican budget by $45 million hurting our efforts in protecting ebola and measlse. there's the export bank. we extended the life and attached it to the transportation bill, which is great, but the export- import bank expired days ago. the transportation bill that i worked so closely with leader and senator durban and others, it's stuck in the house of representatives. and i don't know what to think over there, what they are doing, eed to get going and get that transportation bill into conference so we can do that. this is a bipartisan bill. but instead pushing on that, we ar ie voting on a issue that we already voted on. ge, general electric announced that it will ship 500 jobs overseas because of the bank's closure, anyone who tells you it doesn't have an impact. they're wrong. 500 families are suffering because of the bank which we visit in the senate. it's stuck on the transportation bill in thes house and they have yet to mark their bill, and i hope they will. then we have something that ronald reagan warned us about. i want to remind everybody when bill clinto