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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. 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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Today, the tech industry celebrates the successful House passage of the Russia PNTR legislation. We commend the House for acting in a strong bipartisan fashion to put the needs of American businesses and workers first. The final vote tally was 365-43. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. Majority Leader Reid has stated that passing Russia PNTR is on his agenda for the lame duck session of congress. Let’s [...]
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Next week, President Obama will leave Washington for a three-nation trip to Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Media reports ahead of the trip note that Thailand is likely to announce its interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations which have been gaining momentum. While in Cambodia, the President will participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings [...]
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At ITI, we pride ourselves in the quality of our work. Our ethos is reflected in our brand: “Innovation. Insight. Influence.” We strive to match our members’ breakthrough innovations with cutting-edge approaches to help people and governments better understand our members and the work they do in Washington, D.C., and in key markets and capitals around the world. And, today, two of our top advocates [...]
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Time of death: 6:11p.m. After a second failed cloture vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared, “Cybersecurity is dead for this Congress.” Despite interest from both sides of the aisle to address the issue of cybersecurity, there simply was not enough bipartisan support for the Cybersecurity [...]
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“Our top priority has to be jobs and growth . . . providing more Americans the chance to learn the skills that businesses are looking for right now; keeping this country at the forefront of research, technology and clean energy.” That’s how President Obama opened his first post-election news conference, before spending the majority of time talking about anything but job creation. Ok, in the President’s [...]
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Now that we've turned the page on the campaign season, Congress has the opportunity to focus on measures that will help revitalize the American economy. This week, we see an opportunity to do exactly that as the House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation that would establish a permanent, normal trade relationship (PNTR) with Russia and waive outdated Cold War-era emigration laws that [...]
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What an amazing night for our Republic. More than 119 million people cast their ballots in races from justice of the peace to President of the United States. We stood in long lines – some for hours; we cast our ballots; and we shared a hope that tomorrow would be better than today. Because, at the end of any election day, that’s the common bond among Americans. No matter how we vote, we vote with [...]
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TechElect has identified six of the most critical policy reforms that American policymakers from across both sides of the aisle need to embrace if the United States is to restore its leadership in the race for global innovation advantage. Indeed, the United States would go a long way toward enhancing its innovation competitiveness if it tackled these six steps as the first items on the 2013 legislative [...]
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Pundits and policymakers’ attention is focused on today’s release of the October jobs data, where we saw the manufacturing sector has added jobs in 28 of the last 33 months, gaining half a million jobs during that timeframe, the most for any such period since the mid-1990s. That’s a good record, but no one is satisfied with the pace of our economic recovery from the great recession. We all recognize [...]
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