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Two recent op-eds in California papers reinforce the critical goals of corporate tax reform: Create jobs and strengthen the American economy. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat from Montana or a Republican from Michigan, a tech company in Boise or an entrepreneur in Austin. We all would benefit from a modern tax system that levels the global playing field so American companies can compete around [...]
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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. 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’s surveillance programs. 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. 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 “Max & Dave” Tax Reform Tour to Silicon Valley later this month. One of the stops will be at the Intel Corporation, an ITI member and one of the U.S. economy’s innovation cornerstones. The chairmen’s visit to the Valley will give them the opportunity to hear about the significance of tax [...]
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Last week, Representative Tony Cárdenas, D-Calif., introduced legislation that would redouble the nation’s focus on computer science. 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’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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