Complex sentence: Congress continued the bank as a government agency, using a series of laws between 1935 and 1943 to place it under various government departments, before making it an independent agency on July 31,1945, with the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945.
Split into simpler sentences: Congress continued the bank as a government agency, using a series of laws between 1935 and 1943 to place it under various government departments. Congress made the bank an independent agency on July 31,1945, with the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945.