of course that is ultimately the commerce committee most focused on. howard is a force of nature. for those who don't know him and for the employees at the commerce department, i will say with all apologies will work harder over the next four years then you have probably ever worked in your entire life. howard is the kind of guy who can have you work 90 hours a week and make you feel like you are still energetic at the end of the day because he is working 110 hours a week and never let's his foot off the gas and never forgets what the mission is that drives him to do all the incredible things he has done and will do as commerce secretary. a couple words about his biography because it influences certainly how i think about him and hopefully it forms how you will think about his nomination. he grew up in a family where they often struggled to make ends meet. he builds one of the most successful and biggest financial firms in the world and of course had it all destroyed by terrorists on 9/11, 2001. howard did not die that day. he lost 600 employees. he did not die that day because he took his son to kindergarten on the upper east side so he was not in the towe

of us on the commerce committee most focused on. howard is a force of nature. for those that don't know him and employees at commerce department i will say with all apoll >> is, you're going to -- apologies worry going to work harder over the next four years than ever in your entire life. howard is the kind. of guy that can have you work 90 hours a week and makeve ewe feel like you're still energetic at the end of the day because he's working 110 hour as week and never lets his foot off the gas and never forgets what the mission is that drives him to do all of the incredible things he has done and that he will do as commerce secretary. i want to say a couple words about howard's biography and influences how i feelab about hm and hopefully how you all think about his nomination. this is not a guy that was handed everything. he grew up in a family where they often struggled to make ends meet. he built one of the most cubbing sycesful and biggest financial -- successful and biggest financial firms in the world and had it all destroyed by terrorists on 9/11/2001. now, howard didn't die that day. he lost 600 employees including i b

the department of commerce does significant work to ensure that u.s. companies are able to compete with china. and drive -- it also does a lot of work to drive innovation in america. i want to ask very broadly, how will you utilize the programs within the commerce department? including those authorized by the bipartisan ships and science act, to promote american innovation? mr. lutnick: for the example, we want to bring semi conductors back to america. we want to look at the supply chain and bring that back to america. we want to create those great jobs so we can go back to innovating, which is where we began, right? intel began with chips, right? and then the world sort of leveraged our chips. tsmc leveraged us and took it from us. and who drove them? apple. who is apple? it is america. we want to bring that innovation back and make sure our great companies -- and let's be clear -- have them all. there is no other country that has the incredible technology companies, pharma companies that we have. let's bring those companies, any fetching and innovatio

of a.i. i'm glad that the trump administration is committed to american leadership in a.i. and the commerce department will have a critical role to play in balancing accountability with a.i.'s great possibilities. mr. president, the job of the commerce secretary touches just about every industry in this country. and behind all those industries are americans working hard to provide for their families, live their american dream, and make their contribution to america's future. howard lutnick understands this, and i'm confident that he will work every day to help american commerce thrive so that the american people can thrive. mr. president, america has tremendous potential. i look forward to working with president trump and with howard lutnick to continue to lo

come to the floor today to talk about the nomination of the president's nominee to run the department of commerce, an agency that is charged with the broad mission and a lot of complex issues that affect many sectors of our economy. the next secretary of commerce will have to deal with a wide-ranging growing list of issues from trade and export controls, expanding broadband, weather forecasting, patent issues, export controls on a.i., and figuring out some of the most thorny issues related to how we move our country forward generally in commerce. so it's fair to say that if the commerce secretary doesn't get it right, the american people and our american economy pay the price. unfortunately i believe that howard lutnick, the president's nominee, isn't the right person for this job at this point in time. mr. lutnick and the president has made it very clear that one of mr. lutnick's key responsibilities will be for trade policy and the tariff policies that the president supports. in my conversations with mr. lutnick and before his commerce committee hearing, he made it very clear that he intends to

now you will have to us read, read present details, office and the department of commerce going into the depths of numbers and negotiations. and it will take at least a few weeks to many months to apply the status of where the romance has your calling attendance is that there will be conversation. unlike with a few other countries, we can sing that prime minister movie and his team and president trump, and his team will come to the table regardless of what the conversation is on titus . and then will be negotiations even if not immediately at least by the end of the year. and that wouldn't be so with the priority list that india now has on titus and as shown. so, and hopefully we've mod amicable the conversation. yeah. and how does he plan to do that, given the concerns of the day for taishan flights, the end of the tensions, the mounting of how does know the plan to maintain estimates relationship with the usb? thanks. i, as i think this is where the indian foreign policy model works really well. it is a more going to based on consensus and issues that is why india has been able to n

ago, when gingrich was speaker and clinton was president, they tried to do away with the department of commerce and the department of education. so, this is not the first time. i have family members, many who are educators, and they all agree the federal department of education needs to go. and return it back to the states and the localities. now, it started out as a small division under health and human services or what used to be health education and welfare before they split it up. so, that is what i would do. now that, that is just one agency. but when you have 15, count them, 15 cabinet positions, each one of them must have, must have numerous, numerous agencies that are being funded by congress. when was the last time, when was the last time they cut a budget that did not dissolve or just move an agency into another department, or just rename it? when was the last time our, our senators and representatives, both chambers, have they done that? for them to say -- they are all screaming about elon musk being an unelected bureaucrat. how many of them -- that is what the chevron decision in th

and to put you something totally different, which is why i'm place at the department of commerce. i couldn't even tell you where the department of commerce was when i found out that i was placed there, let alone that it had 12 different bureaus responsible for america's economic growth. so a tremendous honor to able to represent not only the white. fellowship first, but the united navy, right second. and that's what i realize. think on day one when i came into commerce, was that i wasn't lieutenant jason spencer, i was white fellow. and then i was, united states navy, and then i was jason spencer. so really just the overall, i would say ambassadorship of of these numerous programs is incredibly important. and i think one of the things to get to the second part of the question, one of the things that i immediately learned, having never been outside of the for my professional life almost 11 years now and the active service was that a lot of the same. it's a people business matter where you go and we have a saying in the ship shipmate self right. and the same thing applies commerce wo

i don't falls largely on department of commerce for the enforcement but one of the question that wille help our companies that no chinese products are being dumped on them and killing the market to have a better response and what pressure can you put while agreements are going on with the department of commerce trying to be able to prosecute those, how do you put additional pressure to make sure it stops.ps >>. >> is a great topic of conversation. as many on this committee no, dealing with unfair imports from china is what i do one thing the president directed he directed the commerce department to look at the dumping and see if they can be improved to better serve the american workers. if confirmed i would be committed to look at other unfair trade practices to see if we need paralleled actions going on at the same time to make sure we resolve every aspect of the problem. >> there's also been conversation late this week dealing with packages coming in from china and how those are going to be handled. there was a pilot agreement established in 2019 to see if we could manage some of th

access issues with national security efforts and many of my colleagues have directed the department of commerce to have a larger role in trying to define the issues of agency overlap in this area of spectrum. that led to the department of commerce and the joint chiefs of staff agreeing on the legislation we put forward that would open up more spectrum for commercial use and study how we could work together on spectrum sharing. i want to continue to focus on how we get this right. we need to ensure our global leadership and advanced wireless technology against china is there. we need legislation and leadership that does not abandon our national security goals. i know it is easy to say this is what i want to do but i am convinced when looking at the past history here the only thing that is going to work is the collaborative hard-working efforts and probably test vetting of technology that will allow us to get this right for the future. in 2019 the fcc auction 24 gigahertz band, endangering our ability to track and predict hurricanes. in 2020 the fcc approved a petition to use satellite spectrum f

this falls largely on department of commerce for enforcement. a question that will come to you is how do we help companies that know that chinese companies are being dumped on them and killing the market, having better response and what pressure can you put while agreements are going on with department of commerce, to prosecute those, how do you put additional pressure to make sure it stops? mr. greer: thank you. this was a great topic of conversation. dealing with unfair imports from china is what i do. private sector, public sector. the president directed the commerce to look at the dumping laws and see if they can be improved to better serve american companies/workers. ustr, i would be committed to look at other unfair practices that are not fully captured by the dumping laws to see if we need parallel actions to make sure we resolve every aspect of the problem, not just the technical issues. sen. lankford: that would be helpful. there has been conversation this week dealing with packages coming from china and how those would be handled. enco

the department of commerce bureau of economic analysis found that outdoor recreation contributed 2.2 billion wyoming's economy in 2023, placing our state fifth nationally in this sector. it's an invisible economy which provides jobs statewide and diversifies revenue streams. the steps we take to keep have and will continue to pay us back. we can't afford to neglect or to vandalize this fundamental and the stork leg of our economic security. our way of life, our economy, and our safety depends on infrastructure. roads sometimes fail unexpectedly. such was the case in the early hours of june 8. wyoming department of transportation have been monitoring a crack on highway 22 for a few days when it turned into a massive landslide on teton pass the cascading collapse left this vital highway impassible, cutting off jackson's workforce from the community. it was a national news story. prompt action to address the situation was essential. and here in wyoming that's what happened. as soon as heard about it i called the director of wydot to get his ideas for options and he said our guys are alr

the waste of america is over in the commerce department. we are going to get broadband to people but were going to do at cost effectively but get it and get to the benefit of the bargain. >> if i can squeeze in, i'm glad we mention noaa. noaa, national data buoy center is at the stennis space center in mississippi. it is the national premier rocket propulsion facility. in the next few months will you come see us and let me show you the great potential we have there at the stennis space center? >> sounds fun. >> okay. very good. let's say by april. >> give me until may. >> all right, good. we've got a deal. also in addition, in addition to infrastructure, the chips and science act has been mentioned favorably. we mentioned the chips and science act as it connects with this fiscal years ndaa. one of the things we did in the chips and science act was 220, well actually $10 billion authorized for 20 regional tech hubs. the first round has largely been approved. in ndaa refunded $220 million. it was authorized for 10 billion. 229 for tech hubs, a

few weeks ago, i was honored to announce my nomination of harry coker to lead the maryland department of commerce. [applause] most recently he served as the united states national cyberdirector. he's a navy guy, but i'm not going to hold that against him. he is widely regarded as one of america's most respected leaders in defense, intelligence, and cybersecurity. so at a time when maryland is ready to make some big bets on industries of the future, it is a very big deal that harry coker is going to help to lead us there. and by the way, today happens to be his first day in the office. so if it's ok, i'd like to ask harry to please stand. [applause] he's sitting with his remarkable colleagues and our mix of the cabinet. quite the first day, harry. but thank you. we're excited to have you on board. and also, as we grow our economy, we must also reform this tax code. because the two are going to have to go hand in hand. it doesn't matter if i'm in st. mary's county or if i'm in ocean city, it doesn't matter if i'm in frederick or upper marlboro. it doesn't matter if i'm talking to business leaders o

yesterday the department of commerce reported the united states set record last year of $1.2 trillion. i want to associate myself with remarks of senator grassley which believes our approach should be opening markets. we should have an aggressive trade strategy particularly at a time we have a growing middle-class around the world. before the pandemic hit, first time the world population the majority reached middle class. we calculated in my office if you sold those people one more latte, what was the value of that. china imports something like $84 billion of agriculture product, that is just one example but these other markets represent a huge opportunity for us. when you say in your comments in answering the question, we need concrete examples, you and i are going to differ. you work for a guy who thinks you throw down the tariffs and force a little deal out of china when i am saying i want an aggressive continuation of us policy over decades and decades, the bush administration, the clinton administration and others in opening up markets for our agriculture products. i don't like t

role trying to define the issues of agency overlap in this area of spectrum another to the department of commerce and the joint chief of staff of the legislation that would upload spectrum for commercial uses and setting basically how we could work together upon spectrum sharing so many continue to focus on how we get this right pretty we need to ensure that it will leadership in advance wireless technology is china's there however, we need legislation and leadership that doesn't abandon our national security goals. and it was easy to say that this is what i want to do, but i am firmly convinced that when looking at the past history here, that the only thing that's what is collaborative hard-working efforts and probably technology testing that will allow us to get this right for the future and in 2019, the fcc auction 24 gigahertz bands in intra- endangering our ability to attract and predict in the fcc 2020 approved the position to use satellite spectrum 5g risk severely disrupting essential gps service as government is outpacing a 39 billion-dollar also because of that debacle in 2020, the fcc

of a.i. i'm glad that the trump administration is committed to american leadership in a.i. and the commerce department will have a critical role to play in balancing accountability with a.i.'s great possibilities. mr. president, the job of the commerce secretary touches just about every industry in this country. and behind all those industries are americans working hard to provide for their families, live their american dream, and make their contribution to america's future. howard lutnick understands this, and i'm confident that he will work every day to help american commerce thrive so that the american people can thrive. mr. president, america has tremendous potential. i look forward to working with president trump and with howard lutnick to continue to unlock it. mr. president, i yield the floor, and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks. the right to do it just like we had the right to do mount mckinley and no one is even challenging that. essentially, it is primarily the associated rest. i don't know what th

patent and trademark office, department of commerce. another d.e.i. contract that doge identified. i can continue to go through these. oh, i love this one. 57,000 bucks for climate change in sri lanka. what is this doing to continu the interests of the american people? absolutely nothing. these are the line items across the federal government that doge is identifying daily. they're moving very fast. there's a lot of paper that we can show you but we're happy to do it. this administration has been more than transparent about what doge is doing and here's one of their tweets that they posted about the mine, i believe this is in pennsylvania, where the federal employee retirement system is being processed. did anybody know this was even happening in our country before elon musk talked about it in the oval office yesterday? a lot of americans didn't. so we're providing transparency and accessibility on a daily basis when it comes to doge and i also have a doge daily report if anybody would like it. on all of the things that they are identifying and finding. we're happy to provide this

patent and trademark office, department of commerce. in other dei contract that we identified. ntinue to go through these. i love this one. $57,000 for climate change in sri lanka. what is this doing to continue the interest of the american people? absolutely nothing. >> jesse: we paid for terrorist tuition and then invited them for lunch at the pentagon and serve them smoked ham. muslims don't even eat ham. that is the kind of pork we can get rid of. the state department spent $2.5 million to reduce emissions from cow flatulence in brazil. how do you reduce cow flatulence? you can't change cow diet, all they do is graze on grass. are they somehow capturing the flatulence? i would love to see that. someone got $1.5 million to monitor a mailroom. not even open or send it, just monitor it. how can anyone support this? >> jesse: 's. >> if you tell me we should be giving money to those things, those entities, i think you are probably going to have to leave as a reporter because you are not very talented. there is no chance that there are not kickbacks or something going on. when you

department of government efficiency reportedly entered the headquarters of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration in maryland, as well as the building of its parent agency, the department of commerce in washington. they apparently just sort of walked past security and said, get out of my way, and they're looking for access to the it systems as they have in other agencies. andrew rosenberg, a former noaa official with knowledge of the incident, told mother jones. he added they will have access to the entire computer system. a lot of which is confidential information. now, it should be noted here that project 2025, the right wing blueprint for trump's second term, which pulled abysmally and trump tried to deny he had anything to do with. well, look at that. it called for noaa to be broken up and downsized because its role in promoting climate science was harmful to u.s. prosperity. musk staffers have also gained access to payment and contracting systems at the extremely important and crucial centers for medicare and medicaid services that is the source of health insurance for more than 150 million older and poorer americans. and again, as with much of this, what is he doing with tha

it's just where we keep mark mcgonagle's retirement folder from the department of commerce. how are we just finding out about this? there wasn't one whistleblower who was like, hey, washington post, i commute to work down a 200 foot mine shaft every day, and there's no computers down here. we do everything with a bic pen. i can't breathe and my hand's falling off. i'm literally being shafted. didn't we pass labor laws in the 40s against this? and democrats are supposed to be pro-labor. shouldn't they want to save these workers from these backwards conditions? no. the democrats want to keep the limestone mine open. >> which side are you on? we'll fight against. >> josh. >> we'll fight elon musk. no. we landscape within our walls. we'll fight from dawn to dusk. oh, which side are you on? which side are you on? which side are you on? which side are you on? trump's coming for our unions. he wants us all to fail. he wants us to bow to him. but we want him in jail. >> musk wants to rescue these government gremlins from working underground. and what do they want? they want to throw

the department of commerce did an analysis of that shortage which prevented carmakers from finishing r automobiles, and the department of commerce found that that shortage during the supply chain crisis of covid shaved 1% off the u.s. economy. so our economy is 1% smaller than it would've been if that ship shortage had not been the case. if china was to invade taiwan, that would lead to massive disruption in the global chip supply chain. we are talking far, far worse than the shortage that we experienced during covid. this will begin economic catastrophe that very few people in the u.s. can even remember. it would be an economic apocalypse analogous, the closest analogous would be the arab oil embargo in this reasons to think it could be considerably worse than that. and of course taiwan, they are the most fans to chip maker which means they are the supplier of all the most advanced ai chips. that is something that china would love to get his hands on. there's a reason why they are building a fleet amphibious assault ships and it is to prepare to retake taiwan. there's a reason why ch

the department of commerce did an analysis of that shortage which prevented carmakers from finishing r automobiles, and the department of commerce found that that shortage during the supply chain crisis of covid shaved 1% off the u.s. economy. so our economy is 1% smaller than it would've been if that ship shortage had not been the case. if china was to invade taiwan, that would lead to massive disruption in the global chip supply chain. we are talking far, far worse than the shortage that we experienced during covid. this will begin economic catastrophe that very few people in the u.s. can even remember. it would be an economic apocalypse analogous, the closest analogous would be the arab oil embargo in this reasons to think it could be considerably worse than that. and of course taiwan, they are the most fans to chip maker which means they are the supplier of all the most advanced ai chips. that is something that china would love to get his hands on. there's a reason why they are building a fleet amphibious assault ships and it is to prepare to retake taiwan. there's a reason why ch

ago, when gingrich was speaker and clinton was president, they tried to do away with the department of commercend the department of education. so, this is not the first time. i have family members, many who are educators, and they all agree the federal department of education needs to go. and return it back to the states and the localities. now, it started out as a small division under health and human services or what used to be health education and welfare before they split it up. so, that is what i would do. now that, that is just one agency. but when you have 15, count them, 15 cabinet positions, each one of them must have, must have numerous, numerous agencies that are being funded by congress. when was the last time, when was the last time they cut a budget that did not dissolve or just move an agency into another department, or just rename it? when was the last time our, our senators and representatives, both chambers, have they done that? for them to say -- they are all screaming about elon musk being an unelected bureaucrat. how many of them -- that is what the chevron decision in the

patent and trademark office, department of commerce, another dei contract that d.o.g.e. identified. i can continue to go through these. i love this one, $57,000 for climate change in sri lanka. what is this doing to continue the interests of the american people? absolutely nothing. these are the line items across the federal government that d.o.g.e. is identifying daily. they are moving very fast. there is a lot of paper that we can show you but we are happy to do it. this administration has been more than transparent about what d.o.g.e. is doing. and here is one of their tweets that they posted about the mind, i believe this is in pennsylvania, where the federalt system is being processed, did anybody know this was even happening in our country before elon musk talked about it in the oval office yesterday? a lot of americans didn't. so we are providing transparency and accessibility on a daily basis when it comes to d.o.g.e. i also have a d.o.g.e. daily report if anybody would like it of all of the things that they are identifying in finding peered we are happy to provide this infor

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one report conducted by the department of commerce found that excess production capacity, particularlyna has been a major factor in the decline of domestic aluminum production. woe are getting overwhelmed by aluminum made in china. president trump built one of the strongest economies in modern history in his first term. democrats failed to notice that and they wanted to change it. they almost destroyed our economy. jobs and wages were up. americans had more money in their pocket. thanks to president trump's strategic tariffs along with the 2017 tax cuts and jobs act, companies were reshoring businesses back in the united states right and left. they were come back because they could make profit. that's what it's all about when you have a corporation, you have to make a profit and president trump was able to, because of tariffs, make more money for manufacturing in this country going out of this country. you had companies like ford canceling plans to build in mexico back in president trump's first term. and instead opening one in michigan. this turned out to be extremely important when c

>> step one is to take it out of independent status and embed it inside the commerce department. mmerce secretary harry ludnik was committed today and they spoke about privatizing this agency and so take it out o of that independent status will be step one. and step two, louis joy plans to retire soon. and the board of governors can be fired for cause by the president. that could be another step. geoff: this will certainly the lead legal challenges. what have experts been telling you about the authority the president will have to dissolve the postal service leadership and then effectively move it to the commerce department? >> so the postal service has to have a board of governors. these are bipartisan individuals appointed by the president, confirmed by the senate. and then they together select or can remove the postmaster general. >> there are power that the postal service has on thin thins like service on things like rates and prices that can only be made by the governor so you have to have a board on place. that's what's complicating this for the white house. how you do take t

it that's what we are trying to do that's what we try to do and build the dod and tia and department of commercehank you mr. clark for your football analogy because the away game i think that really gives you a picture war fighter space. the one thing i struggle with is that, if you could, i feel like people misunderstand where we are. i'm not saying we are playing peewee league let's say the k-12 week right now but the shift in the dynamics and capabilities of the warfare that's going to take place based on spectrum, it's going to be you are knocking to be in k-12 football your super bowl. how do we get people here to understand can't unilaterally disarm if the ascending technical capabilities and challenges. could you address white space. e the presiding officer: without objection. thune later today, the senate will vote to confirm kelly loeffler to lead the small business administration. the administration -- [inaudible] -- she grew up on her family's fourth-generation farm in illinois. her dad run a small trucking company and as a young woman, kelly worked in the soy bone fields and waited t