Boeing’s ninth 787 Dreamliner, the third for launch customer All Nippon Airways: Boeing has used financing through the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance billions of dollars in foreign jet sales. House Republican leaders won’t say whether they will renew the bank. Its charter runs out September 30.. (Aubrey Cohen/seattlepi.com) Vital programs for Washington were caught in a Capitol Hill undertow Thursday, as Congress stumbled toward a five-and-half-week August recess with obstructionism leaving a vast load of work undone.