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Barack Obama will host an Economic Competitiveness Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh tomorrow. He'll be joined by SEIU president Andy Stern and Anna Burger, the group's secretary-treasurer.
Also expected to attend:
Lael Brainard, Vice President of the Brookings Institution;
Eli Broad, Founder of the Broad Foundation;
Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone;
Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution Health; former Chairman and CEO of America Online;
Susan Castillo, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Oregon Department of Education;
Gen. Jim Jones, United States Marine Corps (retired), President and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century Technology, U.S. Chamber of Commerce;
Vinod Khosla, Founder and Partner of Kholsa Ventures;
Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Federico Peña, former Secretary of Transportation and former Secretary of Energy;
Harold Varmus, President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr., Chairman and CEO of General Motors
Why is the candidate for the working class and poor advocating we give money to one of the richest couples in the USA. the clintons have made 100 million dollars since bill left the Whitehouse let them put their money wear their convictions are
campigan finance laws, karl
Why, in a discussion of economic competitiveness, is the only representative of business the CEO of General Motors, arguably the poster child for the wrong way to be internationally-competitive? Would seem to send the wrong message. Or is this only one in a series of such discussions?
Steve Case, AOL, and US Chamber of Commerce don't count as representatives of business?