Murray Emphasizes Role Commerce Department Plays Ensuring Competitive U.S. Economy

"When we compete with our adversaries it's not just a matter of who spends the most on defense. It's a matter of who has the strongest supply chains, who supports workers and growing businesses most, who makes sure our communities have the high-speed internet they need to do just about anything in the 21st Century, and who is on the cutting edge of technology--advanced manufacturing, green energy, quantum computing, and more.

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The Department is also using resources we provided in the CHIPS and Science Act to bring manufacturing jobs in things like quantum computing and chip manufacturing to states like mine--because we've got to make sure the jobs of the future are here in America--not shipped overseas. And the Inflation Reduction Act is actually ushering in a boom in green manufacturing for batteries, and electric vehicles, and more.

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We know China is making investments in many of these same industries and trying to get the upper hand. So if we want to not just compete, but to lead the world, we cannot let our investments fall behind or fall victim to partisan potshots,"

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