S.Amdt. 2445

SA 2445. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2327 submitted by Mr. Kirk (for himself, Mr. Graham,
Mr. Blunt, Ms. Ayotte, Ms. Heitkamp, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Donnelly, Mr.
Warner, Ms. Klobuchar, and Ms. Cantwell) to the amendment SA 2266
proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill H.R. 22, to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under
TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken into account
for purposes of determining the employers to which the employer mandate
applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle E of the amendment, add the
following:

SEC. __54. PROHIBITION ON BANK FINANCING FOR HIGH-INCOME
ECONOMIES.

Section 2 of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C.
635), as amended by section __51, is further amended by
adding at the end the following:
``(l) Prohibition on Financing for High-income Economies.--
The Bank may not guarantee, insure, extend credit for, or
participate in an extension of credit for the exportation of
goods or services to a country that has a high-income
economy, as determined by the World Bank Group, unless the
producer of the goods or services is a small business concern
(as defined under section 3 of the Small Business Act (15
U.S.C. 632)) and is organized under the laws of the United
States or any jurisdiction within the United States.''.
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