on our first panel we have the honorable john bryson, secretary for the united states department of commerce. good morning, secretary bryson. it has always been a pleasure to work with you as a fellow californian. we've had a long history together. i welcome you to our subcommittee and i'm very thankful that you're here. we look forward to work with you closely on this and many other important issues. you'll be recognized for five minutes to help you keep track of time, the timer is right in front of you. when it turns yellow you'll have one minute to try to sum up if you could. please remember to turn the microphone on and bring it close to your mouth so the audience at home can hear your remarks. and with us again, welcome, mr. secretary. you are recognized for five minutes. >> -- working with you here on this and -- can you hear? >> especially if you are complimenting the chairman it's nice to have the microphone very close to your mouth. >> pull it closer. pull the whole thing closer. >> how is that? >> much better. thank you. >> all right. so i said -- thank you to the chairwoman and no

without further ado, let me bring up my good friend and colleague john bryson, secretary of commerce.well, thank you, fred. and it is a great, great pleasure to join in welcoming all of you to this second day of this critically important and also wonderful annual conference. i'm going to jump right in to what i do as the commerce secretary and tie it in to what we're most focused on here, and that is xm bank and the critical role it plays. it won't surprise you, i think, to know that a principal priority of mine is increasing u.s. exports. and we want to do absolutely everything we can to

then john bryson and rahm emanuel discuss funding the import bank. state tax policies and their impact on economic growth. >> the pope has a famous way of being determined. the pope handpicks this person. this person decides when the pope is dead. he hits him three times in the head with a silver hammer and calls out his name three times. that is carried over from the romans. even today, the pope is not dead until he says he is dead. >> saturday night at 10:00 eastern on "afterwords," dick teresi with "the undead." arlen specter and the split of members of his old party and the tea party. >> it has been 10 years since the release of the third volume of "the years of lyndon johnson." in a few weeks the fourth volume will be published. here he is on q &a in 2008. >> this is a but not just about lyndon johnson but jack kennedy. it is a very complicated story. i do not think people know of two very complicated people -- robert kennedy and lyndon johnson. i had to really go into that and try to explain it. it is part of the story all the way through the e

we will be shortly hearing from secretary john bryson and mere rahm emanuel. we of -- near rahm emanuel. we have sessions decided -- assigned to look at how the world has changed economically, considering the arab spring, and some of the forces we need to think about both from a business point of view, and understanding the global trends that are happening. it will also have a panel on a global infrastructure, which will keep power in our global economy. for many years, the united states and the world relied on the u.s. consumer. those days are largely behind us. we will look at an era of infrastructure that will really power our global economy and our own economy. speaking of which, yesterday, the commerce department released export numbers. we exported $181 billion in february alone. that was a great height. [applause] >> to put it in perspective, one year ago it was $165 billion. it is a strong increase. we are exporting over $2.1 trillion on an annual rate right now. some quick things i want to announce -- one of the things we have done, those of you that

john bryson, a secretary from the united states to part of commerce. it has always been a pleasure to work with you. we have had a long history together and i welcome you to our subcommittee and i am thankful you are here. we look for to working with you close the on this and many other important issues. it will be recognized for five minutes. to help you keep track of time, the timer is in front of you and when it turns yellow, you have one minute to some of. remember to turn the microphone on and bring it close your mouth so the audience at home can hear your remarks. welcome, mr. secretary and you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. can you hear? >> if you are complementing the chairman, it is good at the microphone close. [laughter] >> pull the whole thing closer. >> how's that? >> much better, thanks. >> i said thank you to the chairwoman and now to the ranking member butterfield end to the members of the subcommittee, we thank you for your support for the incredibly diverse as a ray of manufacturers in your district and throughout the

host: john bryson is the customers -- commerce secretary. another story following up on reasons why he believes manufacturing does well. mr. bryson was testifying yesterday on the state of manufacturing. the story by the associated press talks a little bit about the reason why as far as he sees them. manufacturing rebound is the title. this is found in the cleveland banner by the way. he said bryson pointed to two new strategies intended to boost american manufacturing further. one is the national network innovation. proposal to bring local manufacturers together with students, researchers and community leaders. we want the best minds to develop best practices forgetting ideas from the drawing boards in record time. and that's according to the cleveland paper. in the "wall street journal" in their marketplace section, we'll dive into the story in a little bit. but there's a profile of south carolina as a state and so it says the headline -- this is the business section by john busey saying what's going on in the state of south carolina where

our first then we have the honorable john bryson, secretary for the united states department of commerce. good morning, secretary bryson. it's always been a pleasure to work with you. as a fellow californian with a long history together. i welcome you and i'm thankful you're here. we look forward to working with you closely on this and many other important issues. you'll be recognize as a set for five minutes to help you keep track of time, the time is right in front of you. when it turns yellow you will have one minute you try to sum up, if you do. please remember to turn the microphone on and bring it close to your mouth so the audience at home can hear your remarks. again, welcome mr. secretary. you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much -- [inaudible] working with you here on this, and -- can you hear? >> especially if your company the chairman it's a good thing that the microphone very close to your mouth. mouth. [laughter] >> how was that? >> much better thank you. >> all right. so i said 92 the chairwoman and now to the ranking member butterfield, and to all of you

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>> in a few moments, a hearing on manufacturing and jobs with testimony from commerce secretary john bryson. in two hours, steve forbes, the president and ceo of "forbes" talks about the economy and the tax code. after that, a hearing looking into a general services administration conference in las vegas. >>> when i was embedded in eastern afghanistan, the soldiers started telling me that the u.s. government was wasting tens of billions of dollars on totally mismanaged development and logistics contracts. >> in funding the enemy, douglas wissing follows the money in afghanistan and finds corruption from top to bottom, right into the hands of the taliban. >> i was in one meeting where the brigade command ir, an incredibly effective guy named colonel mike howard, this is not long after president obama took office, and the state department was out there saying, okay. we're going to give you a whole bunch of development money. it's counterinsurgency. we're going to do this. win their hearts and minds. nation build. and colonel howard said, don't send any more money. send me contract officers th