Bruce Josten
Bruce Josten
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This law will help make the world a miserable place for counterfeiters. Next, we need greater coordination among enforcement agencies to enforce the laws on the books and bring these criminals who engage in counterfeiting and piracy to justice.
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They have got a lot to do in a compressed time frame and a lot to resolve between the chambers.
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I don't think this boils down to a 30-second spiel with anybody.
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The calendar says they will be in session for 120 days, but when you subtract Mondays and Fridays, which are travel days, that drops to 74, so it's a very short playing field. At some point, you have to see what's politically achievable.
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He believes in the need to get this economy back on a high growth track, to increase productivity so we can have higher wages and incomes.
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The business community is convinced we are going to have a pension bill.
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Reform is critical if we are to encourage businesses to offer a pension benefit now, while many workers still have time to build for their retirement. Without reform, more workers will be forced to rely on Social Security, which is already facing financial difficulty.
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We need to have more access to more markets abroad, not less access.
concern potential trade
We do have a concern about the potential for retaliation in the trade space.
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We've evaluated a bunch of these now, ... We've determined you can't possibly predict how they're going to rule on a certain set of facts in a given case.
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When this deal first surfaced late Thursday, the business community was just shocked. Instantly, if not rather simultaneously, people started making calls to the Senate leadership, to the staff of the Senate Finance Committee. It was the wholesalers, the manufacturers, the mass retailers.
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When you are talking about a budget for 2007 of $2,400bn, I don't want to sound crass, but $9bn is a rounding error.