Obama names critic as top advisor
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February 19, 2011, Saturday
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Casting about for innovative job-creation ideas, US President Barack Obama names one of his critics to an advisory council responsible for finding new ways to promote economic growth and bring jobs to the United States.
Obama named Intel Corp Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini to the jobs and competitiveness council during a visit to the company's semiconductor manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, yesterday, a White House official said.
As recently as September, Otellini complained that administration policies had created too much uncertainty for businesses and had failed to spark job growth or boost consumer confidence in the economy.
Otellini appeared with Obama yesterday. Obama created the council last month and named General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt as its chairman.
The president is on the West Coast promoting his agenda to make the US more competitive globally.
Besides touring the semiconductor facility, Obama was to learn about programs the company has to encourage studies in science, technology, engineering and math, and get people the skills they need to compete for new high-tech jobs. He was also speaking about education's role in fostering job creation and innovation.
Obama is pushing for new spending on innovation, education, high-speed rail, faster Internet service and other programs that he says will better position the US to compete against other nations.
But Republicans are pushing back, arguing that government spending without restraint is actually hindering job creation. They want to slash the budget. The Republican-controlled House was also nearing a vote on whether to do just that by cutting US$61 billion from government spending this year.
"We're broke," says Republican House Speaker John Boehner about the country's finances.
As that money fight raged in Washington, Obama left town on Thursday on the latest in a series of weekly trips he's been taking to promote the competitiveness agenda he outlined in his State of the Union address.
Last year, Intel announced a 10-year, US$200 million commitment to promote math and science education. It is also one of four companies working to help meet Obama's goal of getting the US to first place in science and math education in a decade.
Obama named Intel Corp Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini to the jobs and competitiveness council during a visit to the company's semiconductor manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, yesterday, a White House official said.
As recently as September, Otellini complained that administration policies had created too much uncertainty for businesses and had failed to spark job growth or boost consumer confidence in the economy.
Otellini appeared with Obama yesterday. Obama created the council last month and named General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt as its chairman.
The president is on the West Coast promoting his agenda to make the US more competitive globally.
Besides touring the semiconductor facility, Obama was to learn about programs the company has to encourage studies in science, technology, engineering and math, and get people the skills they need to compete for new high-tech jobs. He was also speaking about education's role in fostering job creation and innovation.
Obama is pushing for new spending on innovation, education, high-speed rail, faster Internet service and other programs that he says will better position the US to compete against other nations.
But Republicans are pushing back, arguing that government spending without restraint is actually hindering job creation. They want to slash the budget. The Republican-controlled House was also nearing a vote on whether to do just that by cutting US$61 billion from government spending this year.
"We're broke," says Republican House Speaker John Boehner about the country's finances.
As that money fight raged in Washington, Obama left town on Thursday on the latest in a series of weekly trips he's been taking to promote the competitiveness agenda he outlined in his State of the Union address.
Last year, Intel announced a 10-year, US$200 million commitment to promote math and science education. It is also one of four companies working to help meet Obama's goal of getting the US to first place in science and math education in a decade.
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