Commerce Department

The bleak report from the Commerce Department is the first sign of how the end of federal tax credits could weigh on the nation's housing market.

New Home Sales Plunge 33% With Tax Credits Gone 2010

The bleak report from the Commerce Department is the first sign of how the end of federal tax credits could weigh on the nation's housing market.

New Home Sales Plunge 33% With Tax Credits Gone 2010

In reality, merging the SBA with the Commerce Department will be the beginning of the end for all federal programs for small businesses, women, minorities and veterans.

Lloyd Chapman: Corporate Giants Want the Small Business Administration Closed, and Obama Might Oblige Them 2009

Merging the SBA and the Commerce Department has been the wet dream of the defense and aerospace industry for 30 years.

Lloyd Chapman: Obama Administration Policies Could Be Big Problem for Small Businesses 2009

The Commerce Department has been a leader for the federal government by placing IP attachés in global hot spots and creating resources to help rights-holders protect their creations.

Upsurge in anti-P2P actions under Obama 2009

In the past, combining small agencies with the Commerce Department has been a technique used in Washington by previous administrations to quietly close agencies.

Lloyd Chapman: Details of Obama Small Business Conference Remain a Mystery 2009

You think about people like Ron Brown or someone like Don Evans, they were very close to their presidents, and so the Commerce Department was a big job. you know, you haven't heard as much from Carlos Gutierrez.

CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2008 2008

However, I believe that it is a mischaracterization to label the Commerce Department's manufacturing extension program as corporate welfare.

Corporate Welfare -- the Good Kind 2007

I told him if we wanted to do economic development in North Carolina, that the Commerce Department was the place to do it.

Oral History Interview with Lauch Faircloth, March 22, 1999. Interview I-0069. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1999

Q Do you think it's still appropriate, or is it time to rethink, the notion that the Commerce Department should be the lead agency in providing these licenses, as opposed to the Pentagon or the State Department?

Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart ITY National Archives 1999