Ex-Im Bank Is Sleeper Issue of 2014

“The 2014 campaign season’s got a sleeper issue: a government bank most people have never heard of,” Politico reports.

“The Export-Import Bank, a federal entity that has handed out loans to American businesses in relative obscurity for years, is suddenly a political flashpoint — either a symbol of government-sponsored corporate welfare, as some tea party Republicans argue, or a critical force for small business, some Democrats and establishment Republicans say.”