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Report: Commerce Chief Gary Locke Tapped as Ambassador to China
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyPresident Obama will nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to be the next ambassador to China, ABC News reported Monday, quoting an unidentified senior administration official. CNN and The Associated Press also reported that Locke would be nominated. Locke, a former two-term governor of Washington, will replace former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah, a Republican who is considering a run for the presidency and whose resignation as ambassador is effective in April. "The president asked him to take this job because Locke had the experience and relationships necessary to take on this key post," ABC ...
Opinion: Wisconsin Exposes Deeper State Budget Crisis
By not in system - AOL NewsIn the wake of the recent protests in Wisconsin and now several other states, Americans are taking a much closer look at the grim budget realities facing our states today. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker correctly points out that his state's current budget trajectory is unsustainable. But he's not alone. The financial state of the states is not encouraging. Driven by irresponsible state and local spending growth, which outpaced private-sector growth by nearly 90 percent over the past decade, current budget deficits are estimated to exceed $100 billion for the upcoming fiscal year. Bad as they ...
Startup America: Obama Takes Another Step Toward Detente With Business
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe Obama administration is launching what President Barack Obama calls "a historic partnership with business leaders, investors, universities, foundations, and non-profits" to foster new businesses and the entrepreneurs who start them. The White House defined "Startup America" as a national campaign to spur private sector investment in startups and small firms, accelerate research, and knock down barriers to success. "Everybody deserves at least one chance to change the world," Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said Monday in announcing the administration ...
Opinion: Unlocking the Potential of US-China Economic Cooperation
By not in system - AOL NewsCliff Owen, AP We have to keep working to build a commercial environment in China that's friendly to global innovation and international competition, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says. We are at a turning point in the U.S.-China economic partnership. For years, China and the United States benefited tremendously from a trade dynamic characterized largely by one country producing and the other consuming, as evidenced by annual trade deficits that routinely ran well over $200 billion. American consumers got an impressive array of low-cost goods. And in its transition into one of the ...
2010 Census: US Growth Slowest Since Depression
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The number of Americans reached 308,745,538 people this year, rising 9.7 percent in the first decade of the 21st century for the slowest growth rate since the Great Depression, according to figures released today from the 2010 census. The 23rd decennial population count, required by the Constitution, will be used to divvy up 435 House seats for the 113th Congress, which will convene in 2013. As in recent reapportionments, states in the South and West will gain at the expense of those in the Northeast and Midwest. Since 1940, 79 seats in Congress have shifted from the older ...
Should Congress Pass the Dream Act? Opinions Vary
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- Does Congress love a dream? The Dream Act, legislation designed to give children of undocumented workers who came to the United States under the age 16 a path to citizenship in exchange for a promise to attend college or join the military, will be debated in Congress today. Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a staunch opponent of the Dream Act, penned an op-ed for CNN in which he stated the following: Because the Dream Act does not expire, or impose any numerical cap, the scope of the bill's amnesty program could be enormous. And by rewarding illegality, the legislation ...
Strong Census Response Saves $1.6 Billion, Government Says
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThanks to an overwhelming response from the public and a lack of any major operational problems during this year's census, the federal government says it saved $1.6 billion on the once-a-decade population count. The Commerce Department, which runs the Census Bureau, credited a mail response rate of 72 percent, as well as thorough field work by more than 600,000 temporary workers who knocked on nearly 50 million doors, for the count's success, The Associated Press reported. "With proficient management, the cooperation of the American public and a little bit of luck, the census stayed on ...
Census Returning $1.6 Billion to Treasury
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 10) -- Thanks to a better-than-expected response rate, lots of advertising and a little luck, the Commerce Department announced today that it is returning to the Treasury $1.6 billion in savings from the 2010 Census. Planning for the 2010 Census began about 12 years ago, and $14.7 billion was budgeted for the entire life cycle of the 2010 Census. The refund represents 22 percent of the Census Bureau's $7.4 billion budget for 2010. Even with those savings, it will still be the most expensive census ever because of a larger, more diverse and harder-to-count population. The ...
NOAA Reopens a Third of Closed Gulf Fishing Grounds
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 22) -- Good news related to the gulf oil spill is slowly trickling in. One week after BP managed to cut off nearly all the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA announced today it would reopen more than 26,000 square miles of fishing grounds in the gulf. The area constitutes a third of all waters closed on account of the oil spill. "Today's decision is good news for gulf fishermen and American consumers," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a statement. "Following the best science for this reopening provides important assurance to the American people that the seafood they buy is ...
Commerce Nominee Gary Locke Has Lobbyist Past
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama's third choice to head the Commerce Department, former Washington State Governor Gary Locke, was a partner in the China division of Davis Wright Tremaine, an international law firm dealing with trade issues. Locke lobbyed the Chinese government on behalf of American companies Microsoft, Starbucks, and Weyerhaeuser Lumber, among others. Locke's advocacy on behalf of the companies has raised questions about his ability to lead the Commerce Department.President Obama has barred former lobbyists from taking positions in his Administraiton that would give them authority over ...
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