But Randel Johnson, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for labor issues, said the increase would come "on the backs of employers, " who would hire fewer people and cut overtime.
And while that mission is clearly focused, the diversity of issues that Commerce tackles are wide ranging.
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Ridge said his office is eyeing some form of a management agency to deal with border issues involving commerce and security.
Becky Burr, the U.S. Commerce Department official who oversees ICANN issues, pointed to the international outcry.
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Legal frameworks and taxation issues governing e-commerce are uncertain.
Over the last three years, the United States and Russia have been able to make significant progress on a wide range of issues, including the New START Treaty, the 1, 2, 3 Agreement, the work we've done on Russia's accession to the WTO, and setting up a presidential process whereby issues of trade and commerce, science, technology are all discussed at a much more intensive level.
Look, the Chamber of Commerce has a different approach to certain issues, but we have different responsibilities.
Many companies are still trying to work out how they should respond to global trends, such as the dramatic rise of China's economic and political power, or even to the need for strategic takes on issues such as e-commerce or the rise of social media.
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Mr. CARLOS GUTIERREZ (U.S. Commerce Secretary): The more this issues becomes one of enforcement, only we are driving them farther and farther underground, and what we want for - even for our national security is to drive them above the shadows so we know who they are.
One of the most critical-yet-largely-untold issues surrounding mobile wallets and mobile commerce is the battle to manage the data.
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House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee have questioned Google and Apple on consumer privacy issues.
President Obama today met with Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Amir of Qatar, a nation the United States works with on a range of issues, including security, military cooperation, commerce and trade.
In response to Tuesday's announcement, Fitzgibbon argued that the lower than expected price was a result of Commerce's weak negotiating position due to the regulatory issues, coupled with the thinning out of potential buyers due to the distractions of the summer's credit crisis.
"I think it's clear over these couple of days that progress was made, and if we had not had these talks, some things might not have gotten done, " says Myron Brilliant, vice president for East Asia issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce, of course, is no stranger to infrastructure and transportation issues.
And so at the ASEAN East Asia Summit, we will be discussing a wide range of issues -- everything from how we deal with issues of energy and climate change to how we expand commerce, potentially through the Trans-Pacific Partnership that has the opportunity of creating jobs and prosperity here in the United States but also throughout the region.
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If ICANN has a contract with the U.S. government before the public meeting it will not have the incentive to reach a consensus on controversial issues in the bylaws, the BWG said in a letter to the Commerce Department.
But issues such as privacy or consumer protection that could undermine support for e-commerce need a different answer, albeit one that draws on laws and policies developed in the offline world.
What is wonderful about this trip is that it represents a transition in our bilateral relationship so that we are moving now to issues beyond security and we are beginning to talk about economy, trade, commerce.
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The Scottish Chambers of Commerce welcomed the reduction in unemployment in the run-up to Christmas but warned there were "underlying issues" which required action by governments north and south of the border to stimulate the economy.
As an island nation, as a crossroads of people and commerce, as a democracy, your country is well positioned to promote global solidarity on many of the pressing issues of our times.
The concerns on the minds of Nevada's Hispanic voters are the same issues that the rest of the nation faces, said Luis Valera, with the Latin Chamber of Commerce of Las Vegas.
No one is more knowledgeable than Stu Eizenstat, a former top official at the Commerce, Treasury and State Departments and ambassador to the European Union -- and special negotiator on numerous sanctions issues and Holocaust reparations from European companies.
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