Charter
The Council's statutory legislative charter contains a number of innovative administrative features. For example, one duty of the Council is to create a "forum" where national leaders with experience could identify and development recommendations to address actual problems facing America. The Council is empowered to hold hearings and to establish Subcouncils on any issue. An unusual provision of the CPC Act provides that any discussion a the Subcouncil shall not be considered to violate any Federal or state antitrust law.
The establishment of the Competitiveness Policy Council (CPC) was inspired, in part, by the favorable reception to the 1985 Report of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness (chaired by John A. Young). A year following the Young Commission Report, a private sector Council on Competitiveness was set up, which remains in existence. The CPC developed a cooperative relationship with the Council on Competitiveness which enhanced the CPC's work product. The two Councils were easily distinguishable, however, in that the membership of the federally-established CPC included a federal cabinet level official and s state elected official. Thus, the deliberation of the CPC was able to benefit from the input of governmental members. By contrast, the private-sector Council on Competitiveness lacks governmental members.
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