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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke led a
briefing at the Washington Foreign Press Center on the Obama administration’s
first Cabinet-level trade mission to China and Indonesia next week. The clean
energy business development missions will promote exports of leading U.S.
technologies related to clean energy, energy efficiency and electric energy
storage, transmission and distribution. In his remarks, Locke said, “Here at
home, every American should know that when a U.S.
clean energy company finds success abroad, it creates more jobs in the United States." (
Rick Wade, senior adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, met with local businesses in Williamsport,
Penn., today as part of a national tour taking him to Main Streets across
America to hear from business leaders about the challenges they face and to
take their ideas and concerns back to Washington. Wade participated in a
roundtable discussion, a luncheon, and toured a local manufacturing facility.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited the Precision
Auto Care international corporate headquarters training facility in Leesburg,
Va., to discuss President Obama’s National Export Initiative (NEI) and how it
can help U.S. companies of all sizes sell more of their goods and services
overseas and support the creation of American jobs. Locke was joined by U.S.
Rep. Frank Wolf. The NEI aims to double U.S. exports over the next five years
while supporting two million American jobs.
At the direction of President
Obama, Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and NOAA Administrator Jane
Lubchenco visited the Gulf Coast to meet with
federal, state and local officials, and local business leaders as part of their
continued oversight of BP’s efforts to plug the leak and contain the spill, and
their ongoing emphasis on interagency coordination in response to the event.
All three officials traveled to Biloxi, Miss. Locke and Napolitano continued on to Pensacola, Fla.,
in the afternoon. (
