House takes steps to revive Export-Import Bank
A total of 184 Democrats joined forces with 62 Republicans in a rarely used procedural step — a petition to dislodge the bill from a panel controlled by a bank opponent.
Bank supporters have been stymied by opposition from tea party Republicans, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and top GOP lawmakers like Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
[...] outgoing Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who supports continuing the bank, made little if any effort to quash the petition drive once Hensarling made clear he would not advance legislation to renew the bank through his committee without more support from Republicans.