Department of Commerce - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of Commerce Index / Organizations Transcripts Carol Browner ...they don't. So it gets left over in the Department of Commerce . I remember saying to somebody who wa... ...somebody who was going to work in the Department of Commerce , “This is so great. You'll have th... Joe Del Bosque ...of Fish and Wildlife and in the Commerce Department , of which, underneath that is th... Penny Pritzker ...encourage inbound investment. We at the Commerce Department led that effort. And just during ou... ...And it really is. The work of the Department of Commerce is not political, for the most part... ...A vice president had not come to the Department of Commerce in at least two decades. So it was ... ...What do we do? We exist as the Department of Commerce to serve the American people. How do w... ...clarify for the White House what the Department of Commerce could do to further their agenda. S... ...obvious one. SelectUSA belonged at the Department of Commerce , but it was nowhere when I arrived... ...rolled out and was implemented at the Department of Commerce ? First of all, we took one of ou... ...like, Okay, now you're going to the Commerce Department of each state, or the economic engine... ...Agenda. First, why is the work of the Department of Commerce important? The department really sit... ...House to understand what could the Department of Commerce do for it and its agenda. We wer... ...in free and fair trade, and the Commerce Department has a lot of equities in this topic... ...agreed to cosponsor it with the Department of Commerce and when Bill Clinton, who wasn't eve... ...this was a huge opportunity for the Department of Commerce . So our department really prioritize... ...was launched in 2013, and I made the Department of Commerce , really, his partner in that. We wer... ...One had to approach how you take the Department of Commerce and the Department of Homelan... ...than the time I was there. The Commerce Department plays a really critical role when i... ...time. But from the standpoint of the Department of Commerce , we took the lead role, fundamentally... ...and I was trying to do the same at the Department of Commerce . We focused on really trying to becom... ...Honestly, the email didn't work at the Department of Commerce when I arrived. People told me that wa... ...one of the big values that we at the Department of Commerce brought to the table was, I was able t... ...to encryption. We were able at the Department of Commerce through the expertise of the Nationa... ...stepping back, and you think about the Department of Commerce —and we thought of ourselves as th... Show more... Christine Chen ...or later on in his life as secretary of Department of Commerce or Department of Transportation, he wa... ...and they move it over to the Department of Commerce , and specifically Minority Busines... Austan Goolsbee ...markets and run taxes. And the Commerce Department runs trade and stuff like that. CE... Ellen Moran ...administration before moving to the Department of Commerce , where she served as chief of staff t... ...positions from the White House to the Commerce Department ? I knew it would be a... ...a more enthusiastic advocate for the Commerce Department because it is a smorgasbord—and thos... ...That's a real contribution that the Commerce Department can make to creating jobs here in th... ...And I wouldn't trade any day at the Commerce Department for anything. What led you to leav... ...which I did. I didn't leave the Commerce Department until the end of December o... ...club of former chiefs of staff for the Commerce Department and we get together from time to tim... Show more... Stephanie Valencia ...working in an agency, so I went to the Department of Commerce to be Penny Pritzker's deputy chief o... Chris Lu ...about sending me over to the Department of Commerce as the deputy secretary of commerce. A... DJ Patil ...said, “We want you to come into the Department of Commerce and be the chief data scientist there.... ...census. Talked to them, talked to the Commerce Department and said, You know what, we're probabl... ...that to inform the census team at the Department of Commerce what a good census should like that? W... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa