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  1. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access & Compliance, I have the great privilege of working each day to advance the President’s trade policy agenda to grow U.S. exports and help American industry compete in foreign markets under the President’s National Export Initiative.
  2. My mother started off as a beautician and later went to college when I was in middle school while still raising four kids and helping my father provide for my family. They did everything they could to support my family so that my brother, ...
    sisters and I would have opportunities that they never had. Because of their sacrifices and their relentless determination, I graduated from Tufts University with a world of opportunities before me. I chose a career in public service.
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  3. The costumed characters featured at the United States Patent and Trademark Office's upcoming Trademark Expo visited the Children’s National Medical Center today. Volunteers passed out Trademark Activity Guides, helped children complete activities involving characters that are registered trademarks, and taught children about familiar trademarks.
  4. I was born and raised in San Antonio, TX. I grew up during a time when local community leaders like former San Antonio Mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, voter registration activist William C. Velasquez, and ...
    Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez worked to galvanize the Hispanic community by encouraging greater civic participation. The same call to public service led me to the Commerce Department in November of 2009.
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  5. I am visiting North Carolina today with the Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sánchez to see first-hand two state of the art textile companies–Unifi and A&E. Recently, President Obama signed into law an important set of tech...
    nical fixes to the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America (CAFTA-DR) Free Trade Agreement that will have a direct impact on jobs at these two companies and sewing thread manufacturers across this state and country. International Trade Administration
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  6. Albert Einstein said, "The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving." Giving is the driver that motivated me to pursue a public service career. My parents, who proudly retired from the Puerto Rico government, encouraged me to enter public service for our country.
  7. Cristina blogs during Hispanic Heritage Month: "My advice to other young Hispanics is to take chances, to step far and beyond what may be deemed to be your duties and become a symbol of that which could be attainable by us all. In more ways than one, take advantage of all the opportunities that are out there. You never know where they may lead you."
  8. David J. Wineland, a physicist at Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics.
    Wineland shared the prize with Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure...
    in Paris, France. In announcing the winners today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Wineland and Haroche "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
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  9. The Obama administration today announced that 10 public-private partnerships across America will receive $20 million in total awards to help revitalize American manufacturing and encourage companies to invest in the United States.
    The 10 p...
    artnerships were selected through the Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, which is a competitive multi-agency grant process announced in May 2012 to support initiatives that strengthen advanced manufacturing at the local level.
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  10. This “Made in America Manufacturing Tour” supports President Obama’s National Export Initiative (NEI), which seeks to double U.S. exports by the end of 2014. Just last year, exports supported 9.7 million American jobs, an increase of 1.2 million American jobs from 2009.
  11. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Under Secretary Francisco J. Sánchez launched the Environmental Export Initiative today at the Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC). The initiative is a government-w...
    ide effort to enhance environmental technology exports. Today’s event gave an outline for environmental companies for some of the key deliverables under the initiative that will help facilitate increased environmental technologies exports.
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  12. Today, as part of administration-wide efforts to ensure public trust through transparent, efficient, and effective government, the Department of Commerce launched a new online tool through which the public can submit Freedom of Information ...
    Act (FOIA) requests. The interface, FOIAonline, will enable the public and departmental FOIA professionals to access an automated online tracking and records management system for the first time.
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  13. This afternoon, Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank spoke before the Council on Foreign Relations about the Obama Administration's initiatives to help businesses expand their investment in the United States and bring jobs back home.
  14. The International Economic Development Council has just launched the newly redesigned RestoreYourEconomy.org website. Developed with funding from Commerce's Economic Development Administration, the website is a one-stop resource for economi...
    c development organizations and chambers of commerce seeking to assist businesses after a disaster, rebuild their local economy, and encourage resiliency among local businesses and government.
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  15. Commerce's U.S. Census Bureau today released a report that shows that in many of the largest cities of the most-populous metro areas, downtown is becoming a place not only to work but also to live. Between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, metro areas with five million or more people experienced double-digit population growth rates within their downtown areas, more than double the rate of these areas overall.
  16. Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Directory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Dr. Patrick Gallagher today is helping dedicate the new Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Research at ...
    Nova Southeastern University in Hollywood, Florida.
    The new research facility was funded in part by a $15 million grant from NIST as part of a competitive program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at academic institutions and non-profit research organizations.
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  17. Deputy Under Secretary and Deputy U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Teresa Stanek Rea participated today in a panel titled, "The State of Patent Litigation: A Conversation with the Federal Circuit Court" at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. The America Invents Act (AIA) was the main topic of the panel discussion. Rea described how its historic patent eforms drive growth in both jobs and exports.
  18. The Obama administration today announced a $40 million multi-agency competition, the MAKE IT IN AMERICA CHALLENGE, to accelerate the trend of insourcing, where companies are bringing jobs back and making additional investments here in America. The competition will build upon the administration’s bottom-up approach to strengthening the economy and creating jobs by partnering with state, regional, and local economies.

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