mr. mulvaney: no it hasn't. the speaker pro tempore: the question son ordering the previous question on the -- mr. mulvaney: who moved the -- who moved the previous question? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee. mr. mulvaney: was that econded? the speaker pro tempore: the previous question -- the house will be in order. the previous question does not require a second. mr. mulvaney: i have an amendment at the desk. i would simply like to ask what rule you're relying on in denying me the ability to bring that now. the speaker pro tempore: clause 4 of rule 16. the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the ayes have it. mr. hensarling: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. hensarling: on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and rem

mr. mulvaney: thank you. mr. hensarling: mr. speaker, again, i appreciate the gentleman from south carolina, making his parliamentary inquiries. i think it has helped clarify the matter. so at this point if it is the will of the house to send this back to committee, i look forward to the vote and would be very happy to reconsider this in committee and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from california -- ms. waters: parliamentary inquiry. the wish the chair would clarify -- i wish the chair would clarify that there will recommit taken on the , this t should that fail will not go back to the committee under any circumstances. is that correct? the speaker pro tempore: the motion is not adopted. the bill would not return to the committee. ms. waters: that's, if i may, you just said what i said in reverse. and i just wanted to be clear. as the chairman of the committee tried to state that he'd be willing to hold hearings and do wha

mr. mulvaney another valuable member of the house financial services committee. sproil the -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mulvaney: i'm going to pick up with the comments about regular order. this is not regular order. in regular order we have amendments. i have an amendment that would protect small businesses. i don't get a chance to do that we would under regular order. but let's not forget that there's not just one committee that's getting rolled here. rules committee is getting roll. if this was to follow regular order and go to rules, every single one of you would be able to offer amendments in that committee. they'd probably get shot down as mine have since i've been here but at least you could offer them. furthermore if it went to rules committee, you could have debate. you could participate in debate on the issues. what's getting ready to happen here in a few minutes, mr. fincher will control one hour of debate, speak for five and yield back. denying every single one of you in this chamber the opportunity to speak for at leas

mr. mulvaney: thank you, mr. speaker. we have heard a loft talk so far today about the bank, about what the bank does. a lot of talk about small business. a lot of talk about the bank leveling the playing field. a lot of talk about the bank being that lender of last resort when no one else will step in to the breach to help american businesses. supposedly that's what this is all about. that's not what this is about. we had a discussion in the committee earlier this year where i suggested amendments that would focus the export-import bank on small business. that would allow the export-import bank to expand its use as learned of last resort. but that would limit the bank to true uses to level the playing field. when we really were competing with export credit facilities overseas. representative of the united states chamber of commerce sat in our committee and said he would oppose every single one of those amendments. small business is not what this is about. leveling the playing field is not what this is about. this is abou