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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush left on Friday for a holiday weekend with his longtime friend Don Evans amid speculation that the former commerce secretary was a top candidate to succeed Treasury Secretary John Snow. The Wall Street Journal online reported that Evans had emerged as the front-runner for the Treasury post. A Republican with close ties to the White House also told Reuters that he believed Evans was the leading candidate. A barrage of media stories in the past two days have suggested that Snow may leave within a month and people with close ties to the...

The Talk Shows Sunday, January 29nd, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; former Commerce Secretary Don Evans. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. FACE THE NATION (CBS): President Bush. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast. LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House counselor Dan Bartlett; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; former President Carter; former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Heard from a reliable source that Bush is going to shake up his Staff after New Year. As a minimum Andy Card is going to be replaced by Bush's best friend and former Commerce Secetary, Don Evans. More later.

Close Bush's Friend To Head Russian Oil Giant 19.12.2005 13:18 Donald Evans, the former commerce secretary and a close personal friend of U.S. President George W. Bush, is “seriously considering” becoming chairman of Rosneft Oil Company. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin offered Mr Evans this post last week. Speculation about Evans’ potential move has already drawn comparisons in Washington to the recent decision by Gerhard Schroeder, Germany’s former chancellor, to oversee the North European Gas Pipeline Company, a business controlled by the Russian oil giant Gazprom. The prospect of Evans joining Russian oil giant could generate intense criticism in Washington, however,...

President Bush met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the White House and held a joint press conference (worth reading). President Bush and Vice President Cheney met with panelists at a session entitled "The High Costs of Lawsuit Abuse" during the White House Conference on the Economy at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington. The two-day White House-sponsored event is aimed at boosting President Bush's economic agenda. First Lady Laura Bush *and Barney* visited patients at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington. The Washington Post reported that Jenna Bush will teach at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has chosen Carlos Gutierrez, chief executive officer of Kellogg, to be secretary of commerce.</p>

WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans resigned Tuesday, the first members of President Bush’s Cabinet to leave following his re-election.

Reporting that AG Ashcroft and Commerce Sec Don Evans have resigned.

President and Mrs. Bush made a trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center today to visit at the bedside of soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with their families. Afterwards he stopped to make a few comments to the press. The President also accepted the resignations of Commerce Secretary, Don Evans and Attorney General, John Ashcroft, and thanked them both for their service.Earlier in the day, First Lady Laura inaugurated the re-opening of a two block area of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of Lafayette Park, as a pedestrian walkway following a one year rennovation. She and the President will...

Just watching Fox - Hannity and Colmes, our esteemed Commerce Secretary is hyping figues about the job market. The figures show strong growth and sinking unemployment but there is a hidden problem, he's qulifying the figures with the following -- more Americans working today than at any other point in History.

DES MOINES, IA - Today, the Honorable Don Evans announced the Iowa Small Business Leaders for Bush Coalition. The Iowa Small Business Leaders coalition will be an active part of recruiting others to support President Bush and Vice President Cheney. These leaders will spread the message of how President Bush's policies are working to strengthen small businesses and the economy. "Small businesses fuel 70% of job growth and are helping to keep Iowa's unemployment rate one of the lowest in the country," said Evans. "I am confident that the Iowa Small Business Coalition will recruit others and spread the word...

The Great (Trade) Wall of China By Don Evans President Bush believes that open markets and a level playing field are vital to job creation and economic growth. That is why the president rejects economic isolationism and why this administration is continuing to aggressively engage with China. Last week, along with Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, I led the president's Export Council to China to advance economic engagement, expand access for U.S. exports and address areas of trade concern. China is America's fastest-growing export market and our third-largest trading partner. Two-way trade exceeds $190 billion and over the last three...

(This byliner was originally published in the June 28 edition of the Wall Street Journal and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions.) (The author is the U.S. Commerce Secretary.) President Bush believes that open markets and a level playing field are vital to job creation and economic growth. That is why the president rejects economic isolationism and why this administration is continuing to aggressively engage with China. Last week, along with Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, I led the president's Export Council to China to advance economic engagement, expand access for U.S. exports and address areas of trade...

AUSTIN -- Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, a former Texas oilman and longtime friend of President Bush, is being encouraged to return home and run for governor, a Republican insider said Monday. The source, a longtime political player in Austin and Washington, said Evans hasn't dismissed the idea but doesn't plan to seriously consider it until after the November presidential election. Evans was out of the country Monday. But Ron Bonjean, a Commerce Department spokesman, said Evans isn't planning to run for governor. "Secretary Evans is 100 percent committed to serving President Bush as secretary of commerce," Bonjean said. But...

When Vice President Cheney and the 14 other statutory members of President Bush's Cabinet meet, 10 of them have one thing in common: They are millionaires. In fact, one-third of the Cabinet members, according to their financial disclosure statements, are in the $10 million-plus range, while another third are in the $1 million to $5 million range. The heaviest hitter is former Alcoa chief executive Paul H. O'Neill, now the treasury secretary. He is worth between $67 million and $253 million. Disclosure forms do not give specific price valuations for holdings, but instead require officials to state whether an asset...

Recall that Senate bloviator Teddy Kennedy got loads of media coverage for comparing President Bush to Richard Nixon. We guarantee this next little item will get far less press. Commerce Secretary Don Evans today compared John Kerry to the presidential disaster Jimmy Carter. Evans said Carter enacted a corporate tax credit nearly identical to the one Kerry proposed recently and contended it could harm industries and thus employment. "The last time America experimented with the policies like the ones Senator Kerry advocates were in the 1970s, and most of us remember that those weren't the best of times," Evans told...

National Federation of Independent Business WASHINGTON, DC – Thank you, Jack, for your generous introduction. I appreciate you and Tom Musser and Dan Danner for your leadership at the NFIB and for inviting me here today. The National Federation of Independent Business is a strong voice in Washington for the entrepreneurs and small business owners who bring innovation and growth to our economy. Thanks in large part to the 25 million small businesses in America, our economy is growing, workers are finding jobs, and productivity is at historically high levels. American companies and American workers are the best in...

Peacemaking Operation in Kosovo Failed — Russian Defense Minister Created: 06.04.2004 11:42 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:58 MSK, 14 hours 29 minutes ago MosNews The international peacekeeping operation in Kosovo has failed, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday. Speaking to journalists in Norfolk, Virginia, he said that a serious danger of destabilization in the entire region had been caused because of “attempts to appease extremists from amongst Kosovo Albanians whose aim is to form a society of one nation", Interfax news agency reported. “NATO ought to, at long last, understand that it is impossible to flirt with political extremists and...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union imposed sanctions on the United States for the first time on Monday as a dispute over tax breaks for U.S. firms turned into a trade battle that could cost U.S. exporters $300 million this year.The lower tax rates on exports by firms including Boeing and Microsoft have been judged an illegal subsidy by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which ruled the EU could respond by imposing up to $4 billion in sanctions a year on U.S. goods.But European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy decided to apply only gradual pressure by phasing in the measures, which...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans told workers at a Macomb Township factory Friday that the Bush administration is turning the economy around, but won't be satisfied until more jobs are created. "We had growth of about 4.3 percent at the end of 2003, and we'll see about the same in 2004. But we're still not seeing the job creation we'd like to see," said Evans, who toured Michigan Production Machining with U.S. Rep. Candice Miller. "There's nothing more important than a job. It's at the center of our society." Evans held a...

Sean had Commerce Secretary Don Evans on today, who did an excellent job of putting the deficit into terms and percentages that were understandable. Something about the deficit now is 5% of GDP, whereas it averaged "X" in the past 50 years I was in my car, and want to get the facts and numbers he talked about. Can anyone help, or point me to a source?

<p>President Bush's economic agenda has one goal: to make sure every American who wants to work can find a job. To create the conditions for job creation, the president delivered relief for American consumers and provided incentives for businesses to grow jobs.</p>

Bush Opposes Repeal of NTR With China, Evans Says (Commerce Secretary's remarks in Minnesota Nov. 6) The Bush administration opposes recent congressional proposals to repeal China's normal trade relations (NTR) status and to impose a 27.5 percent tariff on Chinese exports to the United States, Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans said in remarks to the Minnesota and St. Paul Chambers of Commerce November 6. "[T]he Bush Administration opposes these proposals because free trade is the best policy for American workers in the long run," Evans said. However, he added, the proposed tariffs "should serve as a warning to the Chinese...

<p>Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans recently ratcheted up the pressure on China to correct systemic inequalities in bilateral trade opportunities. Mr. Evans was chided in much of the mainstream, free-trade-at-any price media for calling on China to engage in fairer trade. Several editorials suggested that the United States is afflicted with small-minded China-envy, failing to see the advantages of a burgeoning Chinese economy.</p>

<p>BEIJING -- China is going on a shopping spree in the United States, hoping to ease trade tensions before Premier Wen Jiabao visits Washington in December, American officials say.</p> <p>The effort comes amid mounting U.S. pressure for Beijing to meet market-opening pledges and ease a trade surplus with the United States that hit $103 billion last year.</p>

BEIJING - US Commerce Secretary Don Evans delivered a no-nonsense message on China's growing trade imbalance yesterday, saying the United States would not tolerate a 'stacked deck'. Mr Evans, on an eight-day trip to China, also said the pace of Beijing's economic reform appeared to have slowed, causing friction with Washington, which has turned up the volume of complaints about its rising trade deficit with China.'The message is pretty straightforward and that is that job security, job creation and economic growth in America are dependent upon free and fair trade,' he told reporters after a two-hour meeting with Chinese Premier...

AMCHAM Corporate Stewardship Forum The Peninsula Plaza Hotel, Beijing China Tuesday October 28, 2003 Posted on Oct 28, 2003 CORPORATE STEWARDSHIP Thank you for that kind introduction. Greetings from President Bush. Let me begin by congratulating all of you for taking part in this forum and for your commitment to the concept of corporate stewardship. Let me also thank AmCham-China for the hard work required in putting together the excellent program we have in place this morning. The world of business is a noble calling. In light of the recent corporate scandals, that may be an unfashionable statement. But I...

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans is to put pressure on China this week for fairer trade and moves toward a market economy, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Sunday, but he is unlikely to directly refer to the yuan currency.``China has lifted millions of people from poverty by taking important steps toward capitalism, but they have a long way to go,'' Evans said in a statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.``China's current trade practices are exploiting our open markets and are creating an unfair advantage that is undercutting American workers... China's economic success depends on...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/25/03 - Kabul, Kandahar, Kunduz, Manila BREAKING: Kabul - FREED BY AMERICA BREAKING: Kunduz, Afghanistan - Weapons flow to the UN QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS ========= Kabul ========= FREED BY AMERICA, AFGHANI GIRLS RECEIVE AN EDUCATION In Kabul, at the Zarghona High School. Why are their hands raised?. They were asked how many want to go to college. FREED BY AMERICA, HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN and CHILDREN In Kabul, vitamins and polio vaccinations [for ~5.9 million children throughout the country]. FREED BY AMERICA, AFGHANI MUSIC AND DANCING In Kabul, at a wedding....

<p>Facing political pressure over the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs, Commerce Secretary Don Evans says it is time for China to open its market to competition.</p> <p>"I will be taking a strong message of fighting for a level playing field for our workers," Evans said Thursday in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press as he prepared to visit China and Japan.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. government has launched a "good news" offensive in Iraq, and a couple of Baghdad street kids, peddlers of soda pop, have been recruited for the first wave of attack. On a two-day visit, U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans said thousands of new businesses have sprung up here since the war, and gave an example of new entrepreneurship: two boys he spotted by the road selling soft drinks to Baghdad's parched drivers. For the man who runs the Bank of Baghdad, however, those cola kids don't impress much. His own reading on new business is decidedly...

Press Release Source: Newsweek NEWSWEEK: In Baghdad, Official Control Over the News Tightens; Hospitals Declared Off-Limits, Morgue Officials Turn Away Reporters Without a Coalition Escort Sunday October 19, 11:22 am ET 'All the TV Wants to Cover Is Some Sensational, Isolated Terrorist Attack,' Says Commerce Secretary Don Evans After Visiting Iraq. 'I Found a Country That Was Alive with Hope and Optimism.' NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Reporters and government officials have always squabbled over access; but the news coverage of the messy, ongoing conflict in Iraq has worsened the already tense relationship between the press and the Bush...

Oct. 14 — By Doug Palmer BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans, on a barn-storming mission to shore up American policy and drum up investment for war-torn Iraq, insisted Tuesday the country was safer than most people believed. "This is not the dismal, frightened area I expected to see having watched the news coverage in the United States over the past six months," Evans said after a day of meetings -- traveling under heavy military guard -- with Iraqi students, food distribution workers and small business owners. The upbeat assessment came even as the U.S. military said a...

<p>The federal budget is already heavily burdened. And today, the deficit hit a new record high. The Treasury Department reports, the deficit passed $400 billion and we still have another month left in this budget year. The budget deficit is now twice as high as a year ago.</p>

Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans plans to lash out at China today for trade policies that the White House contends are a leading reason U.S. manufacturers continue to bleed jobs, administration officials said yesterday. In a late draft of a speech to be delivered to the Detroit Economic Club, Evans said that during roundtable meetings his department held in key manufacturing centers over the summer, no country "raised more attention as a source of concern than China. "American manufacturers can compete against any country's white collars and blue collars, but we will not submit to competing against another country's choke...

Tue August 12, 2003 05:35 PM ET By Christina Ling CRAWFORD (Reuters) - With more than 2 million jobs lost on his watch and the national debt ballooning to dangerous levels, President Bush will meet with top advisers on Wednesday to try to hash out an economic policy response to mounting criticism going into the 2004 election. Treasury Secretary John Snow, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, budget director Joshua Bolten, Bush's top economic advisor Stephen Friedman, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and others will put their heads together with Bush at his ranch in Crawford,...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Internet service would be permanently free from taxes under a bill that advanced through a Senate Committee today.</p> <p>The Senate Commerce Committee agreed to ban taxes on Internet service, along with two other types of Internet-specific taxes -- taxes that treat Internet purchases differently than other sales, and multiple-state taxation of a single product or service bought over the Internet.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WAUSAU, Wis. July 29 (Reuters) - As protesters lamented the dismal U.S. job market and data showed a plunge in consumer confidence, Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Tuesday the economy is on the brink of a much faster recovery. "This economy is poised to take off. It's spring-loaded to go," Snow said during a CNBC interview on a bus tour of Wisconsin and Minnesota with Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. The tour was to promote President George W. Bush's economic agenda, including the latest $350 billion...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.Bush sends team traveling across state WAUSAU — Three key members of President Bush´s economic team ended a daylong, three-city bus trek across Wisconsin on Tuesday with an earful of economic anxiety. The cabinet officials — who have a reputation for always remaining on message, in this case about the administration´s jobs and growth policies — frequently deviated from their theme to hear from workers and small manufacturers concerned about the flow of jobs to China. Also mentioned: Rising health costs, the service sector´s low wages and a proposed federal regulation that...

<p>President Bush's economic team rolled across America's heartland Tuesday, touting a new round of tax cuts as the medicine needed to cure a sick economy.</p> <p>However, the president's traveling team stirred up skepticism along the way, from factory workers who have seen more than 2 million manufacturing jobs disappear over the past three years and from other critics who contend that Bush's tax cuts mainly have helped the wealthy while creating soaring budget deficits.</p>

Economic Signs Bush Economic Team Hits the Road in a Bus Tour to Promote Tax Cuts, Tout 'Positive Signs' The Associated Press MILWAUKEE July 29 — President Bush's economic team took to the road on Tuesday to predict that the president's new tax package would help boost economic growth significantly in the second half of the year. Treasury Secretary John Snow, Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao began a "Jobs and Growth" bus tour with a stop at a Harley-Davidson motorcycle factory in a Milwaukee suburb. The trio planned a series of such stops across Wisconsin and...

July 29 — By Glenn Somerville MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Top Bush Administration economic officials, determined to claim credit for a smaller tax burden on Americans, hit the Midwest on Tuesday to extol the benefits of Washington's tax-cutting zeal. Three senior cabinet members -- Treasury Secretary John Snow, Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao -- began a two-day bus tour through Wisconsin and Minnesota to discuss the administration's $350-billion of tax cuts approved earlier this year. The tour was to include visits to a Harley-Davidson motorcycle manufacturing plant, a forklift manufacturer and a medical clinic where a retraining...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- President Bush will dispatch Treasury Secretary John Snow and Commerce Secretary Don Evans to the Middle East this fall as part of a newly established "Joint Palestine Economic Development Group." "This group of American and Palestinian officials will meet regularly and be charged with finding practical ways to bring jobs and growth and investment to the Palestinian economy," Bush told reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas at his side. "I will ask (Snow and Evans) to report back to me on the steps we need to take to...

Bush official plays down opposition to tax plan Some in GOP skeptical, but Evans says program still not understood 01/13/2003 Associated Press WASHINGTON - The White House's lead salesman to Congress for the president's economic plan played down opposition from Senate Republicans, saying Sunday that the proposal is not fully understood. "I hope I'm going to take my business experience up to the Hill and talk about how the economy works and how businesses plan and how families plan and how they need a plan that has some permanency to it," Commerce Secretary Don Evans said on CBS' Face...