Gary Locke

Blind Activist Cries Danger As China Hints At Solution

AP | GILLIAN WONG and MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Gary Locke, Video, Hu Jintao, China Civil Rights, Chen-Guangcheng, Yuan Weijing, Hillary Clinton, Robert Wang, China, Chen Guangcheng, World News

UPDATE at 8:20 am ET: The AP reports that Chen has secured a fellowship at a U.S. university and is expected to be permitted to travel soon. By GIL...

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Children v. Dirty Business

William S. Becker | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Global Commons, Soil, Our Children's Trust, Common Law, Tom Vilsack, Lawsuits, Obama Administration, Atmosphere, Steven Chu, Climate Change, Water, National Association of Manufacturers, Gary Locke, Federal Court, Public Trust Doctrine, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Lisa Jackson, Ken Salazar, Forests, Air, Green News
William S. Becker

On May 11, a group of children will face off against the Obama administration and the NAM, arguing that common law requires governments to protect critical natural resources on behalf of current and future generations.

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U.S. Envoy Concerned About China's Human Rights Record

AP | CHARLES HUTZLER and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: China Gary Locke, Gary Locke China Human Rights, Gary Locke, China Human Rights Record, China u.s. Ambassador, China, China Human Rights, World News

BEIJING — China's deteriorating human rights record is a growing concern for the United States, even as overall ties between the countries becom...

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U.S. Ambassador Calls On China To Improve Human Rights

AP | SCOTT McDONALD | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Gary Locke China Human Rights, Gary Locke China, Gary Locke, US Ambassador China Human Rights, China United States, China, United States, World News

BEIJING — The U.S. ambassador to China on Saturday urged Beijing to improve its human rights record, pointing to imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize la...

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Geithner: China 'Very, Very Aggressive' In Stealing U.S. Technology

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Gary Locke, Intellectual Property, Counterfeiting, Yuan, "Indigenous Innovation", Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, China, U.S. International Trade Commission, Business News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that China is holding to its decades-old strategy to steal American intellectual property, in...

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Ambassador Charms China By Ordering Own Coffee At Airport

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Gary Locke China, Gary Locke, Asia Travel, Global Pulse, Gary Locke China Ambassador, China, Travel News

SEATTLE — A photo of the new U.S. ambassador to China carrying his own backpack and ordering his own coffee at an airport has charmed Chinese ci...

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Obama Reportedly Considering Google CEO For Commerce Secretary

Businessweek | Hans Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Commerce Secretary, Ron Kirk, President Obama, Eric Schmidt, Pfizer, Barack Obama, Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce, Jeffrey Kindler, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Google Ceo Eric Schmidt, Politics News

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama may look to the business community for his next secretary of Commerce with former Pfizer Inc. Chief Exe...

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Obama Will Nominate New U.S. Ambassador To China

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Davis Wright Tremaine Llp, Hu Jintao, President Obama, Bill Daley, Bill Richardson, Barack Obama, Politics, Gary Locke, Jon Huntsman, US-Ambassador-to-China, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Secretary of Commerce, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Judd Gregg, Seattle, US News, China, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the son and grandson of Chinese immigrants, to be the next U.S....

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What Comes First, Innovation or the Consumer?

Katherine Warman Kern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Privacy Taskforce, Innovation, Internet Privacy, Disrupt, Procter and Gamble, Gary Locke, Project Vrm, Ppo, Rfid, Department of Commerce, Personal Data Ecosystem, Oecd, Cameron Kerry, Business News
Katherine Warman Kern

Instead of advocating endorsing current practices through regulation and policy, the government should "disrupt ambiguity" with policies which encourage innovation that improves consumer trust.

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Sanction Iceland, the World's Whaling Outlaw

Joel Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whales, Whaling, International Treaty, Iceland, Gary Locke, International Whaling Commission, Conservatives, Commercial Whaling, Green News
Joel Reynolds

The Obama administration deserves credit and our strong support for demanding an end to Iceland's brutal, outdated and illegal slaughter of the world's most magnificent animals.

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A Fan's Notes (The Sequel)

Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Gary Locke, Arne Duncan, Randi Weingarten, Charter Schools, National-Board-Certification, Joel Klein, Cps, Harlem Children's Zone, Ken Salazar, John Dewey, Teach for America, Geoffrey Canada, Chicago, Education News
Matt Farmer

Salazar and Locke should definitely take a page from the playbook of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. As the guy who once ran Chicago's schools, Duncan knows we're a nation of dummies.

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This Week in Infrastructure: Bills, Quotes, Op-Eds

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Hochtief AG, James Inhofe, Federal Reserve, California Department of Transportation, Infrastructure Bank, WateReuse Association, Natural Resource Defense Council, Professional Engineers, California State Business Transportation and Housing Agency, Inland Empire Waters Agencies, Meridiam Infrastructure, Reducing Lead in Drinking Water, East Bay Municipal Utilities District, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, Infrastructure, New Jersey, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Financial TImes, Scott Walker, Frank Rapoport, Gary Locke, Paul Bedard, Plumbing and Manufacturers Institute, Association Fo California Water Agencies, Presidio Parkway Project, Chris Christie, p3s, Alan Mulally, Golden Link Partners, Homeland Security, David Rothkopf, Bond Buyer, Barack Obama, American Water Works Association, Austan Goolsbee, Wisconsin, San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Janet Napolitano, Public-Private-Partnerships, Bernard Schwartz, Fox News, Ben Bernanke, Neil Cavuto, Ford Motor Company, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Forbes, Washington Whispers, California State Infrastructure Bank, US News, Stanton Hazelroth, Dale Bonner, Business News
Michael Likosky

BILLS AND PLANS Reducing Lead in Drinking Water S. 3973 Signed into Law 1/4/2011 Bipartisan Co-sponsorship Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Senator Jame...

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My Tax Dollars Pay for This? U.S. Commerce Secretary Threatens India as Favor to Special Interest

Daniel B. Ravicher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gary Locke, Commerce Department, India, Gilead, Patent, Patents, Politics News
Daniel B. Ravicher

How would you feel if a Chinese diplomat attempted to exert influence over an American court case involving a Chinese company's bogus attempt to shut ...

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China Plays Down U.S. Tensions At U.N. Summit

AP | FOSTER KLUG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China-US Relations, Un Summit, South China Sea, United Nations, Gary Locke, International Relations, Bejing, China, Wen Jiabao, Barack Obama, World News

NEW YORK — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed optimism Wednesday that the United States and China would resolve major trade frictions, even as...

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"There is No Planet B" And Other Things I Heard on Earth Day

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jose Maria Figueres, Epa, Sunil Paul, Richard Branson, Gary Locke, Lisa Jackson, Earth Day, Dave Steiner, Climate Change, Carbon War Room, Green News
Andrew Winston

Much of the discussion on Earth Day in D.C. was about business and growth. Key quote: "I'm done with the false choice between the economy and the environment."

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Sam Stein Joins The Table On Morning Joe (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Gary Locke, Video, Joe Scarborough, Sam Stein, Morning Joe, James Cameron, Joel Klein, Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski, Politics News
Huff TV

Huffington Post political reporter Sam Stein joined the crew for the first hour of this morning's "Morning Joe" program on MSNBC. Along with debating...

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China Currency Shift: Getting Worse More Slowly

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, China Currency, Trade, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Gary Locke, Business News
Dave Johnson

China devotes a huge share of its GDP to currency manipulation. Unfair advantages bring home the bacon.

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Sheldon Whitehouse and 4 Other Superb "Out of the Box" Suggestions to Replace Justice Stevens

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Gary Locke, Jonathan Turley, Christine Gregoire, Judiciary Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse, Glen Beck, Gregory Craig, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Yes, Glenn Beck would likely conjure a grand conspiracy in sending someone named "Whitehouse" to the Supreme Court, but as a sitting senator it would be difficult for Republicans to filibuster his nomination.

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Obama Administration Uses Lobbyist Memo to Say Outsourcing Creates Jobs

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Borosage, Outsourcing, Trumka, Gary Locke, Obama, China, Campaign for America's Future, Clyde Prestowitz, Business News
Mike Elk

Just before Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went on a high-profile trip to China with 24 business executives to advocate for making it easier to send ...

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'Climate Service,' New Federal Climate Change Agency, Is Forming

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Service, Federal Climate Change Agency, Gary Locke, Climate Change, Jane Lubchenco, Obama Climate Change, Global Warming, National-Oceanic-and-Atmospheric-Administration, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming...

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The Commerce Secretary From Boeing

David Segal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boeing, Gary Locke, Washington State, Wto, 787 Jetliner, Commerce Secretary, World Trade Organization, Tax Cuts, Department of Commerce, States Rights, Trade Law, Tax Breaks, Airbus, Politics News
David Segal

Former Washington governor Gary Locke has worked hard to minister to the needs of the hometown corporation. Since being appointed as commerce secretary, he has an even higher perch from which he can do so.

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Three Reasons for Hope in Copenhagen

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Chu, Carol Browner, Congress, Copenhagen 2009, John Holdren, Tom Vilsack, United Nations, President Obama, Gary Locke, Nobel Peace Prize, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Unfccc, Pearl Harbor, Green News
Alexia Parks

The requirement for the U.S. Congress to sign off on any document produced at Copenhagen for it to legally bind us to those agreements, is another reason why I'm hopeful.

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The Business of Green at COP15

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kerry-Boxer Bill, Gary Locke, Markey-Waxman-Climate-Change, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, Green Technology, Secretary of Commerce, Amcham, Green News
Mike Smith

With the Bright Green expo* and trade event starting on Saturday morning, commercial enterprises and dealmakers started their own negotiations today.

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PolitiFact: Glenn Beck Wrong On Claim About Obama Cabinet

PolitiFact | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cabinet, J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Michael Cembalest, Glenn Beck Obama Cabinet, Tom Vilsack, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama Administration, Obama Cabinet Private Sector, Shaun Donovan, Gary Locke, Steven Chu, Glenn Beck, Timothy Geithner, Ken Salazar, Obama's Business Blind Spot, Politics News

Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck has seized on a claim circulating on the Internet to argue that the Obama administration has little understanding o...

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A Global Economic and Moral Imperative

Sec. Gary Locke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Gary Locke, Angel Gurria, International Anti-Corruption Day, Oecd, World News
Sec. Gary Locke

Fighting corruption is an economic necessity. It is also a moral imperative that needs to become a top legal priority around the world. There is no country on earth that is immune from this plague.

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