Tech Group: Kirk 'Great Choice' For USTR
A high-tech trade group representing Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and others lauded President-elect Barack Obama's potential choice for U.S. Trade Representative -- former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk. The Information Technology Industry Council's vice president for technology and trade John Neuffer said his sector has worked with Kirk before and "knows well his keen intellect and policy smarts." Meanwhile labor groups were less than enthusiastic about the news.
Neuffer said Kirk would be a "great choice" for the job since Texas leads the United States in imports and he said that that Kirk's background as mayor of one of that state's largest cities makes him uniquely qualified to advance the U.S. trade agenda in the coming administration. But labor reportedly was unreceptive to the selection. "We don't see a whole lot of evidence that Ron Kirk is interested in going in a new, substantive direction on trade," one labor official told CongressDaily. Read that story here (subscription required).
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