为了精简政府机构，白宫想要把6个政府机构合并为一个部门，专注于贸易和竞争力。这到底是个好主意，坏主意，还是个无关紧要的主意呢？
这个计划引起了美国企业界和贸易政策机构的不少批评。美国企业研究所组织了一个专家小组，研究这一争议，评估奥巴马总统的改组方案。
这次座谈会在美国时间星期三上午10点到11点45分举行，也就是在中国时间星期三晚上11点到12点45分举行。
下面是这次座谈会的现场视频：
英文资料：
Is Obama's Idea to Reorganize Trade and Commerce Good, Bad or Irrelevant?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
10:00-11:45 AM
AEI, Twelfth Floor
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Two blocks from Farragut North Metro
This event will be livestreamed.
Participants:
CLAUDE BARFIELD, AEI
GARY HORLICK, Attorney at Law
JITINDER KOHLI, Center for American Progress
JOHN MURPHY, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
CRAIG VANGRASSTEK, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
As part of a bid for renewed authority to streamline government, the White House wants to merge six agencies into one bureaucracy focused on trade and competitiveness. The plan has sparked substantial criticism from the U.S. business and trade policy communities. An expert panel will weigh in on the controversy and evaluate President Obama's reorganization proposal.
