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With members of Congress back in their districts for the August recess, many are hearing from their constituents and thinking through when and how the House of Representatives should move forward on immigration reform.聽 Republican members in particular are having important conversations with voters in their districts on what immigration reform means in their communities and states. And while the debate [...]
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We welcome the constructive steps that President Obama outlined today to improve the transparency and openness of the nation鈥檚 surveillance programs. 聽We not only support greater transparency on the part of government, but also greater discretion on the part of business to be more transparent about their responses to government surveillance requests. 聽These are important steps not just to increase [...]
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp are taking their 鈥淢ax & Dave鈥� Tax Reform Tour to Silicon Valley later this month.聽 One of the stops will be at the Intel Corporation, an 91快活林 member and one of the U.S. economy鈥檚 innovation cornerstones. The chairmen鈥檚 visit to the Valley will give them the opportunity to hear about the significance of tax [...]
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Last week, Representative Tony C谩rdenas, D-Calif., introduced legislation that would redouble the nation鈥檚 focus on computer science.聽 The legislation, the Computer Science in STEM Act of 2013 (H.R. 2982), would redefine STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in the COMPETES Act of 2010 to include computer science; establish grant programs for both K-12 schools and institutions of higher [...]
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We鈥檙e in the middle of summer and, as usual during this travel season, gas prices have been rising. 聽Thankfully, we haven鈥檛 seen the severe volatility in gas prices like we have in summers past, but most of us can recall from recent memory when an international crisis or environmental incident affected the U.S. oil supply 鈥� some kind of source disruption that curtailed a small percentage of our nation鈥檚 [...]
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Tonight, the U.S. information and communications technology (ICT) industry gained a thoughtful voice within the U.S. government for tech policies that embrace and advance innovation. With Senate confirmation of Daniel Sepulveda, many of the pressing international issues facing the ICT sector are now in the capable hands of the State Department鈥檚 new Deputy Assistant Secretary and U.S. Coordinator for [...]
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There鈥檚 something that everyone agrees on when it comes to getting the U.S. economy back to full competitive strength: 聽we need modern, comprehensive tax reform.聽 Republicans, Democrats, working families, business leaders -- the broad range of the American public -- understand that our current tax system doesn鈥檛 help job creation.聽 What鈥檚 in place now, an outdated corporate tax code last reformed in [...]
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The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee this afternoon will mark up the bipartisan cybersecurity legislation that Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Ranking Member John Thune, R-S.D., put forward last week.聽 91快活林 today sent the senators a letter outlining our support for the bill鈥檚 direction, especially its focus on technology neutrality and the importance of cyber protections [...]
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When an array of voices unites to carry a single, simple message, there is added strength in the numbers.聽 Today, that strength is on full display as more than 400 leading American businesses and advocacy organizations from across the U.S. economic spectrum are calling on the House of Representatives to enact immigration reform. 聽 聽 聽 In a letter to Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi, we are making [...]
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Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI), a nonpartisan private forecasting firm, released a report recently聽detailing the economic impacts of immigration reform.聽 The report focuses on the economic implications in all 50 states and the District of Columbia of three key reform components: 聽the Path to Legal Status; high-skilled (H1-B) visa expansion; and changes in other visa programs (H-2A, H-2B, and [...]
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