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Zach Carter

Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Tpp, Ron Wyden, 2012 Elections, Wyden, Economy, Darrell Issa, Jobs, Free Trade, Obama, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, 2012, Issa, Video, Sen. Ron Wyden, Trans-Pacific, Trade, Prescription Drugs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about c...

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Zach Carter

Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Tpp, Ip, Acta, Economy, Darrell Issa, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Jobs, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Intellectual Property, Video, Trade, Trans-Pacific, Patents, Patent Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...

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Zach Carter

Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Tpp, 2012 Elections, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Buy America, Business, Barack Obama, Buy American, 2012, Politics, Video, Ustr, Trans-Pacific, Trade, Environment, Trans Pacific Partnership, November Elections, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A group of 68 House Democrats and one Republican sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to reconsider an element...

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National Consumer Protection Week: It's Up to You (Sorry!)

Adam Levin | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: National Consumer Protection Week, Buy American, National Consumer Protection Week 2012, Mindful Consumers, Consumer Literacy, Buying American, Conscious Consumers, Money News
Adam Levin

I'm not suggesting that anyone purchase an inferior product just because it was made in the U.S.A. But if it's a tossup between two products of comparable price and quality, one American and one not, buy American. Here's why.

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Aaron Sankin

PHOTOS: Shiny New BART Cars Spark Outrage

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: New Bart Cars, BART Subway Cars, BART BMW, New Bart Cars Sf, Made Overseas, Bart Redesign Sf, Bart Redesign San Francisco, Buy American, New Bart Cars San Francisco, Paul Oversier, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Scott Haggerty, BART Train Cars, San Francisco, San Francisco News

California's high speed rail isn't the only ambitious Bay Area train project running into controversy these days. BART's plan to completely replace...

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Legislation Offers Antidote for Stupidity of Shipping Tax-Dollar-Financed Jobs Overseas

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: James B. Steele, Tom Hickman, Donald L. Bartlett, Bay Bridge, Betrayal of the American Dream, Caltrans, California Department of Transportation, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Diane Sawyer, National Steel Bridge Alliance, Invest in American Jobs Act, Buy American, Made in America, ABC News, Oregon Iron Works, Alliance for American Manufacturing, Nick J. Rahall, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution: buy American-made products.

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What Led to the Problem of Chinese Counterfeit Parts?

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Chinese Counterfeit Parts, Outsourcing Offshore, Buy American, John McCain, Carl Levin, National Security, China, Business News
Michele Nash-Hoff

The recent discovery of electronic counterfeit parts from China that have entered America's defense supply chain reflects a dangerous and costly state of affairs, the product of a complex web of seemingly innocuous policy changes.

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"Buy American" Is Smart, not Stupid

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: National Defense, Counterfeiting, China Product Safety, Buy American, American Manufacturing, Business News
Michele Nash-Hoff

John Stossel's blog article on WorldNetDaily on November 1, "The stupidity of 'Buy American,'" is based on a premise so fallacious that one wonders how a usually intelligent commentator like Stossel could have been taken in by it.

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What Can I do to "save" American Manufacturing?

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Free Trade Agreements, Made-in-USA-Products, Government Regulations, Buy American, Business News
Michele Nash-Hoff

You may feel that there is nothing you can do as an individual to stop the total destruction of American manufacturing and watch the United States go ...

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Dan Froomkin

Job-Creation Idea No. 11: Buy American -- If You Can

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Jobs, Job Creation, Buy American, America Needs Jobs, 20 Jobs Ideas, Facebook, Business News

(No. 11 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) "Buy American" -- it's one of the most common suggestions I get from readers emailing me wit...

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Gallup: Americans Think the Best Way to Create Jobs Is to Protect Manufacturing

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Reid, Jobs Bill, Leo-Hindrey, Gallup Poll, Jobs, Leo Gerard, Trade Policy, Senate Jobs Bill, Buy American, China, Politics News
Mike Elk

Senate Democrats should go back to the drawing board and do a real job bills that makes America competitive with China by investing in infrastructure with Buy America provisions.

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Toyota's Gift to Detroit

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Bailout, Buy-American, Prius, Toyota Recall, Green-Car, U.S. Transportation Department, Ray Lahood, Detroit Automakers, Toyota, Hybrid-Electric Car, Business News
Andy Ostroy

Toyota's crisis is the biggest gift to American automakers since the government's bailout eighteen months ago. If Detroit is smart, we'll be hearing a lot of "Buy American" very soon.

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Like 5.7% GDP Growth? Pass A Real Jobs Bill.

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Energy, Infrastructure, Jobs, Gdp, Buy American, Politics News
Bill Scher

Today's initial estimate of 5.7% annual rate of growth in the GDP for the last quarter of 2009 sure beats a kick in the teeth. And if we sustain this ...

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Before And After Obama's Speech, With Populist Caucus Chair Bruce Braley

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Infrastructure Development Bank Act, Blueprint to Recovery, Chair, President Obama, Middle Class, Jobs, Main Street, Obama, Address, Chairman, Braley, Bonus, State of the Union, Populism, Joint Session, Jobless Recovery, House, Buy American, Chairman Braley, Congressman Braley, Bruce Braley, Populist Caucus, Democrat, Wall Street Bonus Tax Act, Congress, Democrats, Barack Obama, Interview, Buy American Improvement Act, Progressive, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Sotu, Populist, Bonuses, Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The news from the White House for the past week, post-Massachusetts and pre-State-Of-The-Union, has had a decidedly Populist bent to it. So, when thi...

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Hell No! We Won't Send Our Tax Dollars to China

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keith Bradsher, European Union Chamber of Commerce, A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Washington D.C., U.S. Renewable Energy Group, Cielo Wind Power, Buy China, China, Manufacturing Policy, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Jorg Wuttke, Japan, Wind Turbine, Off-Shored, West Texas, South Korea, Buy American, Detroit Automakers, New York Times, Stimulus Act, Industrial Policy, Stimulus Bill, Shenyang, World News
Leo W. Gerard

China doesn't consider America first or the remainder of the world first. And that's what the USA must do. We need an industrial policy that makes no apologies for putting America and American workers first.

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A Holiday Wish List That No One Should Fulfill

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer-Electronics-Association, Microsoft, Gm, Intel, President Obama, Ford, Colombia, Congress, Toyota, Federal Trade Commission, Vw, Las Vegas, Gary Shapiro, Card Check, Chrysler, Aig, Bmw, Economic Stimulus Package, Apple, South Korea, Trade, Buy American, Angela Merkel, Qualcomm, Consumer Electronics Show, Health Care Reform, Cea, Panama, Google, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Here are the "top ten" things our government could do in 2010 to reverse our nascent economic recovery. Of course, it shouldn't do any of these things - but its record causes me grave concern.

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US Chamber of Commerce Hates "Buy America" Slogan

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air America, Pap Attack, Apple, Nike, Buy American, Tom Donahue, Union, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Ring of Fire, Climate Change, Business News
Mike Papantonio

The organization that use to represent small business interests has morphed into a lapdog that serves a new master. That master is international mega-corporations.

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Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keith Bradsher, Cap and Trade, Russ Choma, President Obama, Washington D.C., Renewable Energy, Usw, Blue Green Alliance, Obama, Congress, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Investigative Reporting Workshop, Iberdrola, China, Stimulus, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Unemployment, Fossil Fuels, Buy American, Windmills, New York Times, Republicans, Windmill Farm, Green Energy, Green News
Leo W. Gerard

Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

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An Idiot's Guide to Tom Friedman's Idiocy

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buy American, Tom Friedman, New York Times Op Ed, Media News
David Sirota

I don't mean that Friedman is wrong on everything. I mean that he's actually an extremely dim bulb in that he displays a stunning lack of basic cognitive function.

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"Buy American": U.S. And Canadian Companies Fight Over New Law

wsj.com | PETER FRITSCH and COREY BOLES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buy Canadian, Acquarius Technologies, Stimulus Packages, US Canda Trade War, Buy American, Canada, Business News

WASHINGTON -- On paper, Tom Pokorsky would seem to be a clear beneficiary of the government's $787 billion economic-stimulus package. Mr. Pokorsky ...

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Buy Local, Buy American

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Big Box Stores, Shopping, Buy American, Healthy Living News
Maria Rodale

I'm not against China, or globalism. But right now, America needs all the money we can give it. And we need to reward the very few Americans who are still making things here.

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We Are in Real Trouble

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Mexico, Jobs, Charlie Rangel, Trade, Buy American, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

President Obama and the Congress must enforce "Buy American" and our other trade laws if we are to save the economy. We are in a desperate circumstance.

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I Pledge to Buy a Made-in-US Car. If We All Buy American - and Obama and Congress Act - We Can Revive US Manufacturing

Roger Hickey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Economic Stimulus, Green Jobs, Auto Industry, Economy, Fuel Efficiency, United Auto Workers, Buy American, Business News
Roger Hickey

I want Barack Obama's plan to save the industry and revive manufacturing to succeed -- so I'm stepping up to do a small thing: I pledge that my next car will be made in the good old USA.

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Can Chinese Condoms Stimulate the Economy?

Bret Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fired, Workers, Africa, Disease, Safe Sex, US-Agency-for-International-Development, China, Teamsters, Condoms, Buy American, Unfair Trade, Foreign Goods, Business News
Bret Caldwell

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Obama's Panama Opportunity

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer-Electronics-Association, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Ron Kirk, Colombia Trade Agreement, Gary Shapiro, Exports, President Obama, Colombia, Protectionism, Barack Obama, International Trade, Summit of the Americas, Panama Trade Agreement, Buy American, Free Trade, Panama Canal, Panama, Stimulus Package, Business News
Gary Shapiro

President Barack Obama will soon be making his first trip to Latin America to attend the Summit of the Americas. This visit is an important opportunit...

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