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Penny Pritzker

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first: 2018-05-30
most recent: 2018-05-30
sittings or episodes: 1
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“It is promising. It My thesis of the Department of Commerce is we were a service organization. So whether we were the census full of data or the weather service full of information that was needed every single day, or we were offering you a patent or a trademark, or if you had sensitive material you wanted to sell around the world, we'd give you permission if you were selling to people that we thought made sense. So I viewed the Department of Commerce as a service organization. And we really put together a strategic plan that really focused the whole department and said we're going to do trade and foreign direct investment. We're going to focus on innovation, a better skilled workforce, advanced manufacturing, digital policy, data, making our data more available, and then environmental intelligence, which is really what NOAA provides.”
2018-05-30 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we had to work very closely with the EU to solve that problem because we had thousands of businesses here who had somewhere around $290 billion worth of digital trade at risk. Right. So we were able to fix that and put that back together. So a lot of different things that we did. Very exciting, advanced manufacturing. I also worked really hard. We did 14 advanced manufacturing institutes called Manufacturing USA around the United States. The goal being how do you take great ideas that are sitting in the laboratory and get them to market in the next five to seven years so that United States could lead whether it was in composite materials or it might be in different forms of energy or make it make”
2018-05-30 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Census is part of the Department of Commerce, as is the weather. And we also created a digital attach ⁇ program to help American businesses that were trying to sell their products digitally around the world. Broadband expansion, very important to make sure most Americans could get access to high-speed internet, patent protection Big initiatives there. The US-EU privacy shield, post Snowden, we had lost the safe harbor to transfer digital information back and forth between the United States and Europe.”
2018-05-30 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My focus was a lot on attracting foreign direct investment because it creates great jobs in the United States and great opportunity. The first ever digital agenda for the United States, I also focused on a skilled workforce, which we'll talk about more later, and unlocking our data. The data revolution was just starting. The Department of Commerce produces about 20 to 40 terabytes of data a day, unlocking that census.”
2018-05-30 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I have known him for a long time and he asked me if I would come in and serve as Commerce Secretary and to help him with his relationship with the business community and help with economic policy and then really be the chief commercial advocate for American business around the world.”
2018-05-30 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Basically, I've been in business for 30 years and over 30 years, actually. And then President Obama asked me, I'm not a politician, asked me if I would come in.”
2018-05-30 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT