The bipartisan competition bill could pour billions in loans, grants, and equity investments into supply chain security.
Commerce Department
Trade Group Driving Solar Controversy Includes Slave-Labor Companies
Companies working to sideline the Commerce Department investigation into Chinese trade violations are reliant on components made by Uyghur workers.
5G Rollout Is an Administrative-State Fail
Reliable wireless networks? Safe air travel? Why not both?
Chris Coons Working to Install Business-Friendly Candidate for Key Patent Position
The Delaware senator wants a say in the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and claims to have a deal with the White House.
Place Human Lives Over Pharma’s Property Rights
The Biden administration is divided over whether to waive trade protections for Big Pharma—with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo as a key industry ally.
How a Status Quo Biden Cabinet Pick Would Burn
Ursula Burns, the former Xerox CEO, would carry to the Commerce Department a prodigious amount of baggage.
Hey, Jerry Nadler: Impeach Wilbur Ross!
According to a front-page story in today’s New York Times, last Friday Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the National Weather Service (NWS), if they didn’t affirm President Trump’s fantastical claim that Alabama had been threatened by Hurricane Dorian. When Trump had initially […]
One Year Later, Trump’s Promise to American Steel Workers Is Unfulfilled
With a deadline looming, pressure mounts on the president to make good on his campaign promise to curb Chinese steel dumping.

