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Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, CY2014-CY2015 Description of document: Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Advisory Committee meeting minutes, CY2014-CY2015 Requested date: 16-February-2016 Released date: 12-May-2016 Posted date: 30-May-2016 Source of document: FOIA Request Export-Import Bank of the United States Freedom of Information and Privacy Office 811 Vermont Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20571 Fax: (202) 565-3294 E-Mail: [email protected] Online Freedom of Information Act Request Form The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. 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You requested: "A copy of the Export-Import Bank Advisory Committee meeting minutes during the calendar years 2014 and 2015. " We conducted a comprehensive search of the files within the Office of Communications, Public Affairs Division for records that would be responsive to your request. This is the component within Ex-Im Bank in which responsive records could reasonably be expected to be found. The search produced the enclosed records. After carefully reviewing the responsive documents, we have determined they are releasable in their entirety; no deletions or exemptions have been claimed. For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. §552(c) (2006 & Supp. IV 2010). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a standard notification that is given to all of our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist. Ex-Im Bank's FOIA regulations at 12 C.F.R.404.9 (a) state that Ex-Im Bank shall charge fees to recover the full allowable direct cost it incurs in processing request. Please be aware that charges apply even if any responsive records we may locate are determined to be exempt from disclosure in full or in part. In this instance, because the first 100 pages are free, as are the first two hours of search time, there is no charge. 811 VERMONT AVENUE, N.W WASHINGTON, D.C. 20571 Page 2 If you have any questions about this request, please contact Ms. Lennell Jackson at (202) 565- 3290 or by E-Mail at [email protected]. Sincerely, David M. Sena ChiefFOIA Officer Enclosure: Responsive Documents (1 PDF File) 1 EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES 2 ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING 3 Wednesday, December 18, 2013 4 5 9:36 A.M. 6 Export-Import Bank 811 Vermont Avenue, N.W. 7 Washington, D.C. 20571 8 PRESENT: 9 10 BOARD MEMBERS: Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President 11 Sean Mulvaney, Director 12 ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS: 13 Alan H. Fleischmann 14 Celeste Drake Cherod Webber 15 Gary Hufbauer Jennifer Fulton 16 John Bakane 17 Lisa Howlett Luis Ubinas 18 Mary Andringa 19 Michael Boyle Owen Hernstadt 20 Victoria Bernhardt 21 Gwynne Shotwell (via telephone) Steven Wilburn (via telephone) 22 23 24 Deposition Services, Inc. 25 12321 Middlebrook Road, Suite 210 Germantown, MD 20874 Tel: (301) 881-3344 Fax: (301) 881-3338 [email protected] www.DepositionServices.com WC 2 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 MR. HOCHBERG: Well, good morning. We're going to 3 get started. We're just a few minutes in and just a couple 4 of -- normally I don't chair this meeting. It's normally 5 chaired by the chair of the Advisory Committee, and the 6 chair for this year is Governor Gregoire, Christine 7 Gregoire, who was not able to come here today. So I am the 8 president and chair of Ex-Im and the acting chair of the 9 Advisory Committee. And also, normally, just as a quick 10 comment, we normally meet 11:00 to 3:00 to allow people who 11 are, can fly in and, if they wish, to fly in and out the 12 same day -- had a slight adjustment with the holidays this 13 year, but just going forward, we're normally on an 14 11:00-to-3:00 day. 15 So I'm going to, I guess, officially call the 16 meeting to order, and this is an open meeting. All meetings 17 of the Advisory Committee are open and there'll be a public 18 record of it, and the public is also invited to join us. 19 So let me -- first I want to thank returning 20 members for returning and coming back to the Advisory 21 Committee and lending us your time, energy, and thoughts for 22 another year of service to the Advisory Committee. That's 23 exceedingly helpful in terms of continuity, and all of us 24 learn a little bit each year; so those of you who are 25 returning have another perspective to add. WC 3 1 At the same time, I want to thank those who are 2 joining us this year -- we're going to introduce everybody 3 shortly -- to take time out of your busy schedules, as well 4 -- this is a busy time of year in particular -- but to take 5 time out of your schedules and share your expertise and 6 perspectives so that we can do a better job here at Ex-Im 7 Bank. 8 I think we have a few people on the phone. Let me 9 just check. 10 MS. SHOTWELL: Hi, Fred. This is Gwynne Shotwell 11 with SpaceX. I'm on the phone. 12 MR. HOCHBERG: Excellent. Thank you, Gwynne. 13 Gwynne is calling from, all the way from California. So 14 it's a little early there. 15 MR. WILBURN: It is early, Fred. This is Steve 16 Wilburn, FirmGreen. 17 MR. HOCHBERG: Another Californian. We were 18 criticized a few years ago for not having enough geographic 19 diversity and dispersion. So we have remedied that -- a 20 number of members of this year's Board. So those of you on 21 the phone, I would just ask you, why don't you mute your 22 phone while you're in a listening mode. I know this would 23 not happen with either the two of you, but I remember being 24 on a conference call like this many years ago, a Board call, 25 and one of the members actually fell asleep and was snoring WC 4 1 so loudly -- that would not happen, of course -- that we 2 ultimately had to cancel the call and restart it because 3 there was no way to reach and we couldn't talk over the 4 snoring, but I know that would not happen. Steve and 5 Gwynne, you're going to be on the edge of your seat in rapt 6 attention, and I don't think that would, we have any risk of 7 that happening whatsoever. 8 MR. WILBURN: As long as you're chairing the 9 meeting, Chairman, I'm sure then there'll be no snoring. 10 MR. HOCHBERG: So what we're going to do today is 11 a couple of things: one, have a chance to meet each other 12 as the Board, also meet members of the senior staff -- we're 13 going to introduce them shortly -- talk briefly about what 14 are the Advisory Committee's roles and responsibilities. 15 We'll go over a review of what we've accomplished this year 16 and then why we have this committee, there's a purpose for 17 it, and then, also, just some housekeeping items -- I don't 18 know why they're always called housekeeping items, but 19 they're called housekeeping items -- in terms of legal 20 requirements and notice and so forth. So we're going to do 21 all that. 22 As I mentioned, Governor Gregoire just could not 23 join us; so I'm going to sort of thank her in a virtual way. 24 Hopefully she might hear my voice someplace in Chicago 25 today, but that's why I am, as I said, I'm facilitating it. WC 5 1 So let me introduce a few people here at the Bank, 2 and then we're going to go on with the committee members. 3 Let me first begin, actually, with Sean Mulvaney, who's 4 sitting right here at the table.
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