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When the much ballyhooed Super Committee failed to reach an agreement to address the national debt last year, committee members put in place an automatic spending cut mechanism so draconian and unpalatable it was thought that Congress was certain to act before it went into effect.聽 The mechanism, in short, slashes nearly all of the federal government鈥檚 annual discretionary budgets by 8.4 percent.聽 [...]
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This past Wednesday in Brussels, the European Union (EU) hosted a 鈥淲orkshop on a possible comprehensive 鈥楨U initiative on minerals originating from conflict areas鈥�.鈥� This particular forum was limited to EU officials and invited experts from the OECD, academia, civil society and the business community. The EU will likely advance the initiative in 2013, first with a public consultation and subsequently [...]
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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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The U.S.聽National Broadband Plan聽famously asserted that 鈥渂roadband and advanced communications infrastructure will play an important role in achieving [the] national goals of energy independence and efficiency.鈥澛犅燦ow, a聽study聽released by the聽Global eSustainability Initiative聽(GeSI) offers new calculations on the size of the opportunity for using broadband and IT to maximize the efficiency with which [...]
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At a time where we need bipartisan leadership that has a clear understanding of our country鈥檚 economic challenges, it is disheartening to see proposals that would create even more obstacles to economic recovery. Such was our feeling when we read the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) framework for tax reform. The framework contains outdated, discredited ideas, and policymakers would be wise to [...]
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On Friday, I had the great pleasure of sitting in on the congressional briefing on 鈥淒ata Center Energy Efficiency鈥� that 91快活林 hosted with Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Ca).聽聽 As 91快活林鈥檚 Dean Garfield noted in introducing her, Representative Eshoo聽 鈥渨as doing data center efficiency before data centers were cool.鈥澛犅� Indeed, Eshoo and 91快活林 worked on the 2005 bill that she and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mi) [...]
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At long last, 鈥淲CIT-12鈥� is upon us.聽 Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, commonly referred to simply as 鈥淲CIT,鈥� are boarding flights for a two-week sojourn to the cosmopolitan city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.聽 The forecast is unsurprisingly for warm, sunny days, but that may well be the only accurate forecasting we can do.聽 The outcome of the confab, [...]
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This Friday, the House of Representatives will take up Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith鈥檚 鈥淪TEM Jobs Act鈥� - legislation vital to ensure we have the skilled workforce we need now and in the future to help grow our economy and create new innovative businesses and high-skilled jobs.. Our country鈥檚 innovative potential depends on highly skilled talent, including foreign-born Masters and PhD science, technology, [...]
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Now that the dust has settled on a bruising election season, we at 91快活林 would like to formally congratulate all the newly elected members of the Class of 2012. With tax reform a key priority for the continued growth of the tech sector and the revitalization of the U.S. economy, we are looking forward to working with these freshman members of the House and Senate, along with those re-elected and currently [...]
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The 113th Congress is still more than a month away, but the planning and tablesetting has begun for what could be one of the most significant sessions of Congress for the tech industry ever.聽 A major tax overhaul, high-skilled workforce and education reform, cybersecurity, privacy, and market access are just some of the issues Congress is expected to consider in 2013, and all of those issues are certain [...]
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