Stipulate that Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, chairs the White House’s council on jobs and competitiveness. Then hear what the chief executive had to say this morning about the budget talks in Washington. “Everybody knows we need revenue,” Immelt...
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Co. (GE), speaks during a keynote address at the Minds + Machines 2012: Unleashing the Industrial Internet conference in San Francisco, California, on Nov. 29, 2012.
Immelt to Boehner: Tax Me
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President Barack Obama with former Secretary of State General Colin Powell during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in this file photo.
Colin Powell: Obama — `Long Patrol’
Retired Army Gen. Colin Powell, a former secretary of state for one Republican president and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for another Republican president, re-upped with President Barack Obama today. Powell, who had endorsed the Democrat for election...
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