Department of Commerce - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of Commerce Index / Organizations Transcripts Daniel Russel ...alacrity. The State Department, the Commerce Department , and others were a lot slower, and i... James Clapper ...the Department of Agriculture, or the Department of Commerce , or [the Department of] Health an... Chuck Hagel ...the Weather Bureau people from the Department of Commerce . I brought Department of Agricultur... Jeff Flake ...And then Penny Pritzker also at the Department of Commerce . So I worked with them. I think tha... Ben Rhodes ...the US government got it. Because the Commerce Department , [Department of the] Treasury, EXI... Rick Wade ...Secretary Locke's confirmation. At the Commerce Department , Mr. Wade's responsibilities wer... ...of how you came to play a role at the Commerce Department , first as acting chief of staff an... ...could use you and need your help at the Department of Commerce ,” which I had, anecdotally, though... ...for the first several months at the Commerce Department . And I just absolutely fell in lov... ...donut was the opportunity to go to the Department of Commerce , and I'm really, really grateful fo... ...you're there without a principal at the Commerce Department . How'd you go about approaching that... ...I think they were expecting me, the Commerce Department , that is, be there at eight thirty o... ...a lot of people don't realize that the Commerce Department is sort of like a holding company... ...you were thinking about, and what the Commerce Department was thinking about, at the time whe... ...House, it was all about how does the Commerce Department , or how does the Energy Department, o... ...execute that from the agency called the Department of Commerce . One of the areas, for example, that ... ...trade. So those are the ways where the Commerce Department could contribute. One of the other bi... ...that NTIA, which is the agency at the Department of Commerce that deals with those issues, the... ...I knew that was an opportunity for the Commerce Department to lead on, and so it wasn't unusua... ...that kind of a deliberate focus of the Commerce Department or the White House? Yeah, of course... ...that informs our decision making at the Department of Commerce , and where appropriate, cascade tha... ...abroad. And then, how can the Department of Commerce , with all of our resources—and a lo... ...don't know the data points after I left Commerce Department , but my sense is, yes, that the... ...I won't take any credit for leading the Department of Commerce 's work, but I certainly had a seat a... ...and what our work needed to be at the Commerce Department , to help step up and message and stan... ...in and out of the White House and the Commerce Department . That's been always a part of my DNA... ...dinner and the big summit. Remember, Commerce Department is connected, just like Department o... ...you worked on so many things at the Commerce Department in terms of outreach, so I want to mak... ...much at the White House as I was at the Commerce Department . Obviously, growing up in th... ...that they wanted. That came out of Commerce Department . Actually, that's another example of... ...need the White House to tell me. And Commerce Department , we deal with business. I remembe... ...times, and being the voice for the US Department of Commerce and also, directly and indirectly, th... ...if you will, to Haiti from the Commerce Department and private sector side to help ge... ...That was one of the reasons I left the Commerce Department . It was a personal reason. Obviously... ...of the campaign to just being at the Commerce Department for two years. And I will still say, ... ...all started with my experience at the Department of Commerce . That's tangible, but on the othe... Show more... Esther Brimmer ...with the Department of Treasury, Department of Commerce , Department of State—are workin... ...Is that the State Department? Is that Department of Commerce ?” Department of Defense hears abou... Jason Furman ...CEA did with the Bush [United States] Commerce Department , or the Obama CEA with the Obam... ...or the Obama CEA with the Obama Commerce Department . I'm thinking of topics like trade... Elizabeth Brown ...they need. If you merge them into the Department of Commerce , they're not going to get pai... ...that—that's one perspective I think the Department of Commerce already has, and some of these othe... ...and Atmospheric Administration from the Department of Commerce , the Interior Department. About tha... Tom Vilsack ...the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Commerce or the Department of Justice. And the... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Native America Native America go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court