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We’re in the middle of summer and, as usual during this travel season, gas prices have been rising. Thankfully, we haven’t 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 – some kind of source disruption that curtailed a small percentage of our nation’s [...]
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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’s new Deputy Assistant Secretary and U.S. Coordinator for [...]
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There’s something that everyone agrees on when it comes to getting the U.S. economy back to full competitive strength: we need modern, comprehensive tax reform. Republicans, Democrats, working families, business leaders -- the broad range of the American public -- understand that our current tax system doesn’t help job creation. What’s in place now, an outdated corporate tax code last reformed in [...]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. ITI today sent the senators a letter outlining our support for the bill’s 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. 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. 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 detailing the economic impacts of immigration reform. The report focuses on the economic implications in all 50 states and the District of Columbia of three key reform components: 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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In the past year, U.S. cybersecurity policy has taken significant steps forward, moving away from proposed regulation-heavy regimes to a framework that embraces innovation as central to effective cyber protections. Most recently, President Obama’s cyber executive order (EO) and the House-passed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act each focus on voluntary, collaboratively developed standards [...]
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A global alliance of trade associations has joined together to urge China to take a fresh look at its position regarding the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) expansion negotiations and return to the table with a proposal that can lead to a strong outcome. In a joint letter signed by the heads of 35 trade associations from developing and developed countries around the world, we urged Vice Premier [...]
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) presents significant opportunities for new job creation and economic growth for both the United States and the European Union – if negotiators can forge an agreement that reflects the dynamic, innovative marketplace in both regions. That’s the message ITI’s Dean Garfield will offer at a Wednesday House hearing on TTIP. Dean’s testimony is going [...]
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Earlier today, Representatives Doris Matsui, Brett Guthrie, Adam Smith, and Duncan Hunter introduced the Efficient Use of Government Spectrum Act. As our nation puts together the pieces of the puzzle necessary to address the spectrum shortage for mobile broadband, this is exactly the type of bill that brings several of those pieces together. It is going to take hard work by Congress, the FCC, NTIA, [...]
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