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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. We commend the Senate for taking swift action today on a bill that ensures enforcement of Russia’s WTO commitments and puts the needs of American workers and businesses [...]
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The U.S. National Broadband Plan famously asserted that “broadband and advanced communications infrastructure will play an important role in achieving [the] national goals of energy independence and efficiency.” Now, a study released by the Global eSustainability Initiative (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’s 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 The framework contains outdated, discredited ideas, and policymakers would be wise to [...]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 “Data Center Energy Efficiency” that ITI hosted with Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Ca). As ITI’s Dean Garfield noted in introducing her, Representative Eshoo “was doing data center efficiency before data centers were cool.” Indeed, Eshoo and ITI worked on the 2005 bill that she and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mi) [...]
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At long last, “WCIT-12” is upon us. Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, commonly referred to simply as “WCIT,” are boarding flights for a two-week sojourn to the cosmopolitan city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The forecast is unsurprisingly for warm, sunny days, but that may well be the only accurate forecasting we can do. The outcome of the confab, [...]
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This Friday, the House of Representatives will take up Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith’s “STEM Jobs Act” - 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’s 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 ITI 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. 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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DESSC is proud of all of our member’s green efforts, but today we want to applaud the six DESSC members that made it onto Newsweek’s 2012 Greenest American Companies list. Now in its fourth year, these rankings are compiled after analysis by multiple environmental research organizations. CA Technologies cut back on commuting and pollution by allowing 30 percent of its workforce to work from home. [...]
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