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As they analyze the two speeches tonight 鈥� the President鈥檚 State of the Union Address and Senator Marco Rubio鈥檚 Republican response, pundits are focused on the evening's political theater. 聽Who applauded when? 聽Was the tone fair or fractious? 聽But those questions ignore the ones that are most important: 聽What are the areas of agreement? 聽And how do we get them done? When there is bipartisan agreement, [...]
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If jobs and the economy are the focus of the President鈥檚 State of the Union Address and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio鈥檚 Republican response, then trade and exports should receive prime-time attention.聽 Senior Administration officials recently have said the President will use his Tuesday night鈥檚 speech to zero in on jobs and the economy.聽 In fact, the President told the House Democratic caucus late last [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden begins a European trip today with meetings and events set for Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.聽 The U.S. economic relationship with Europe is one of the issues at the top of the Vice President鈥檚 priority list, including likely discussions of an oft-discussed U.S.-European Union trade agreement.聽 Michael Froman, the Deputy National Security Adviser for International [...]
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91pro视频's Nilmini Rubin is participating in the World Economic Forum sessions in Davos this week, and posted this blog after her panel discussion on maximizing technology to close the gender divide. 聽The blog is crossposted from the WEF website. *** How can the full potential of information technologies be harnessed to close the gender divide? This is a critical question. Our societies are being transformed [...]
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91pro视频 today hosted Ambassador Terry Kramer for his final media event in his position as the lead聽of the U.S. delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). 聽We've talked about WCIT many times before on this blog. 聽At that meeting, held in Dubai in early December, nations struggled over treaty language that carried the potential of allowing the UN to regulate the Internet.聽 [...]
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聽 91pro视频's John Neuffer has spent the week in Geneva as global trade negotiators focus on how best to expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA).聽 He sent this update on the discussions. Despite some heavy snow in Geneva this week, WTO negotiators have been busy here with another round of technical talks to expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), an initiative aimed at completely eliminating [...]
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Sparky Anderson, who managed World Series-winning teams in Cincinnati and Detroit, once remarked, 鈥淲e鈥檙e getting close to opening day.聽 I don鈥檛 know if that鈥檚 a good or bad thing.鈥澛� January 3rd, 2013 marked American policymaking鈥檚 opening day:聽 the start of the 113th Congress.聽聽 We in the tech industry see the start of a new season of policymaking as a good thing because ours is an industry rooted [...]
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Today, the President signed into law a bill establishing Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Russia, bringing to closure years of work spent opening the growing Russian market to American goods and services. 聽The new law represents a victory for American workers and businesses, and will deliver a welcome boost to the U.S. economy at a time when it needs it most. The enactment of PNTR legislation [...]
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Today, the tech industry celebrates another critical step towards normal trade relations with Russia as the Senate, by a vote of 92-4, decisively passed legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia.聽聽We commend the Senate for taking swift action today on a bill that ensures enforcement of Russia鈥檚 WTO commitments and puts the needs of American workers and businesses [...]
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Today, the tech industry celebrates the successful House passage of the Russia PNTR legislation.聽 We commend the House for acting in a strong bipartisan fashion to put the needs of American businesses and workers first. 聽The final vote tally was 365-43.聽 Now it鈥檚 the Senate鈥檚 turn.聽 Majority Leader Reid has stated that passing Russia PNTR is on his agenda for the lame duck session of congress.聽 Let鈥檚 [...]
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