WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) sent a letter to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, outlining seven serious concerns with his recently introduced Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021. The legislation would update and renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new economic report that documents for the first time the severe disparity in historical job quality for Black and Hispanic workers compared to the national average for all U.S. workers. The report, “Quantifying Job Quality for U.S., Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Workers,”…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauded the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) for approving, last week, three bipartisan bills that strengthen Buy America rules more than any legislation has in decades. CPA has long-supported efforts to update current law in order to maximize the U.S. content in…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for passing with overwhelming bipartisan support Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act, which was added as an amendment to the Endless Frontier Act (S. 1260). The bipartisan COOL Online Act would mandate that country-of-origin…
via Morning Consult President Joe Biden’s address to Congress made an ambitious case for building America’s clean energy future. Not only did the president pledge to create “millions of good-paying jobs,” but he aimed for all of his proposed advances in electric vehicles and renewable energy to be “made in America.” Helpfully, Biden even acknowledged the complexity…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today welcomed the announcement by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that it would follow the law and delist three Chinese telecom carriers: China Mobile Ltd., China Unicom Ltd., and China Telecom Corp. The move stems from Executive Order 13959 signed by former President Donald Trump,…
CPA sent the following letter to U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) regarding his letter, signed by House Ways and Means Committee Republicans, urging U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai to resume U.S. negotiations to complete an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA). The EGA strategy would harm U.S. manufacturing and pursuing tariff reduction historically ends in the loss…
On April 23, 2021, the Coalition for a Prosperous America responded to the request for comments by the staff of the Senate Finance Committee regarding a tax framework proposal made by Senator Wyden, Senator Brown, and Senator Warner. April 23, 2021 The Honorable Ron Wyden Chairman United States Senate Committee on Finance 219 Dirksen Senate…
By Michael Stumo American workers pay personal income taxes to the governments of states they work in. But corporations often avoid paying corporate taxes on the profits from earnings in the United States. That’s because multinational corporations and their army of lawyers find imaginative ways to make it appear that an embarrassingly large share of…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded two critical pieces of legislation reintroduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that seek to combat U.S. dependence on foreign pharmaceutical supply chains and boost domestic U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing. CPA has long called for restoring domestic capability to manufacture essential generic drugs, personal protective equipment…
