President Bush spoke at the “America’s Small Business Summit” hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on April 18, and the chamber today posted a series of videos of the event to YouTube. Here are Bush’s thoughts about the U.S. economy and the economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year:
The United States will only hurt itself if it rejects a trade agreement with Colombia because America already has opened its market to Colombian products, according to a business executive focused on the relationship between the two countries.
Miguel Gomez Martinez, executive director of the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce, made the comments in the latest issue of “America’s Business,” a show produced by the National Association of Manufacturers.
In an interview with the National Association of Manufacturers, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab recapped trade news in 2007 and previewed what is on the agenda for 2008. The topics include enactment of the U.S.-Peru trade agreement.
A previous episode of NAM’s “America’s Business” vodcast included other excerpts from the groups interview with Schwab, as well as an interview with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich.
Here’s an excerpt from Dingell in reaction to Congress’ decision to include in a new energy law language to increase fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles: “It will be hard for industry to meet, but industry has supported that and has indicated it is something that they can do and will do. And so it is a meaningful stride forward.”
At last night’s Democratic presidential debate, CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Hillary Clinton whether Ross Perot was right in the 1992 presidential race when he warned that the North American Free Trade Agreement would kill U.S. jobs.
Her quips in response that she has only “a vague memory” of a bunch of charts about the NAFTA debate in the campaign that sent her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to the White House is now online video fodder for Democratic rival John Edwards.
Talking Points Memo posted a fuller clip of Clinton’s answer, including her acknowledgement that “NAFTA was a mistake to the extent that it did not deliver on what we had hoped it would, and that’s why I call for a trade timeout.”
TechCrunch today added John McCain to its list of blogger “gets” in the Republican presidential field, interviewing the Arizona senator about the activities of technology firms in China and visas for high-skilled foreigners, among other topics.
The interview with McCain followed one several days ago with Mitt Romney, one of McCain’s rivals for the GOP nomination.
Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine sees TechCrunch’s series of interviews with presidential candidates as a noteworthy milestone for new media.
“It’s just a blog. It’s just a tech blog,” Jarvis said. “But it’s powerful and has an important audience in a critical industry. So candidates are paying attention. That and 10Questions and the YouTube debates are evidence of a political process that’s just beginning to open up.
Next on TechCrunch’s list is Democrat John Edwards, but he apparently agreed to only a written question-and-answer session with the tech Web site. How very 20th century of him.
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