- IFPTE Convention to Focus on Overtime, Contracting...
Business Editors HONOLULU--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2003 Protecting the jobs of engineers, scientists and technical workers from corporate and federal outsourcing is among the actions coming ......
- Press Briefing by Council on Environmental...
WASHINGTON -- Via Teleconference 10:37 A.M. EST CHAIRMAN CONNAUGHTON: Thank you, and good morning to everyone here in the United States, and I think perhaps ......
- National Average Gas Price Falls Below $3 Per...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The nationwide average price of self-serve regular gasoline fell below $3 per gallon today after nearing the previous all-time record high ......
- Northeast Midwest Coalition.
(People).
Olwen Huxley, legislative director of the House Northeast Midwest Coalition and the staff person in charge of the House of Representatives' Manufacturing Task Force, is ......
- Manufacturers Take A Beating In Budget
HEADNOTE BUSH'S PLAN SLASHES VALUABLE PROGRAMS. ARE YOU READY TO RESPOND? IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 NOW THAT WE'VE learned how the Bush Administration intends to help ......
- MEP: in for another slogging.
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, which will once again be the target of a substantial budget cut in the President's 2007 budget submission to Congress, ......
- Sen. Lieberman develops manufacturing
agenda.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) has issued a policy document on legislative proposals to restore U.S. manufacturing. "Our manufacturing sector is hemorrhaging jobs ......
- Marburger confirmed as science advisor; OSTP moves...
HEADNOTE FROM THE HILL New science advisor John H. Marburger III, confirmed by the Senate on October 23, has taken steps that have increased anxiety ......
- MEP Facing Big Cut
A proposed 57% cut to funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) would potentially devastate the program aiding small manufacturers compete, according to a trade ......
- MEP Supporters Fight For Funding
HEADNOTE MANUFACTURING HEADNOTE SEVERE CUTS TO MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM THREATEN SMALL MANUFACTURERS, THEY PROCLAIM. UNLESS A MIRACLE OCCURS, IT'S TOO late to reverse drastic ......
- Bush's desire to kill program for...
Commerce Department Secretary Don Evans has spent a lot of time recently trying to rationalize the Bush administration's decision to effectively abolish the popular Manufacturing ......
- Sen. Bingaman questions commitment to R &
D.
The federal government is neglecting its role in fostering the development of the next generation of technologies that will generate future jobs and prosperity, claims ......
- At competitiveness summit, 50 minds agree: the...
Business executives, university presidents, a handful of Bush administration cabinet members and Republican legislators gathered in Washington on Dec. 6 to make the case that ......
- Half-Hearted Efforts Endanger Competitiveness
THE U.S. ECONOMY IS showing encouraging signs of life: Productivity is way up, businesses have started hiring, and some economists say the positive trend will ......
- Manufacturers need to educate Congress and public...
Manufacturing companies and their trade associations have not done a very good job of getting the message across to Congress or the American people about ......