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Article: The fate of commerce. (proposed abolition of the Department of Commerce)(includes related article)
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- Association Management
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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If the Department of Commerce were dismantled, would you miss it? Some association executives think certain functions are worth preserving. Others watch the debate with interest.
Dateline Washington, D.C., mid-January 1996. The nation's capital has two blizzards: one of snow and another of words about the U.S. budget. The budget debate includes discussion of whether and how to fund parts of the Commerce Department. When a late January funding shutoff is scheduled, Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown says that even he doesn't know what will happen. Then a funding extension promises to keep Commerce going until the middle of this month. Whatever happens now, the larger ...