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- read more Chamber jabs unions as it ramps up push against Disclose Act7/26/2010
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce needled labor groups in its latest push to stop lawmakers from approving a new campaign finance law.
The Chamber circulated a new video look...
read more Senate Looks To Slug It Out As House Eyes Exit Strategy7/26/2010Win, lose or draw, Senate Democrats will slug through votes on key pieces of their agenda ahead of the August recess, even if it takes dropping the meat of their top legislative...
read more Financial Reform Law Will Create Uncertainty, Not Jobs7/23/2010As the President prepares to sign the Financial Regulatory Reform bill into law on July 21, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pointed to the greater uncertainty it will create for bu...
- read more Geithner: Taxes on Wealthiest to Rise7/23/2010
The Obama administration will allow tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire on schedule, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday, setting up a clash with Repub...
read more President Obama to push Congress on pay-fairness bill7/20/2010President Obama plans to press Congress today to pass pay-equity legislation that would make it easier for women to sue employers who pay them less than their male counterparts,...
read more Senate appears set to approve more benefits for jobless7/20/2010A political logjam over extending long-term jobless benefits appeared to be breaking Monday as senators reacted to signs that a recent loss of momentum in the economic recovery ...
- read more U.S. Chamber Says Congress 'Failed' in Its Attempt to Reform Financial System 7/19/2010
Following today’s Senate vote for final passage of financial reform legislation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue said Congress had “fail...
read more As Massachusetts health 'reform' goes, so could go Obamacare7/19/2010If you want a preview of President Obama's health-care "reform," take a look at Massachusetts. In 2006, it enacted a "reform" that became a model for Obama. What's happened sinc...
read more Time to change course on the US economy7/15/2010The congressional majority and the administration have taken their eyes off the ball when it comes to Americans’ top priority — creating jobs. Although the economy m...
- read more 58 Democrats press leaders on deficit7/15/2010
Nearly a quarter of the House’s Democrats wrote their leadership on Wednesday, urging them to pay more attention to reducing deficit spending.
Fifty-eight Democrat...
read more Small Businesses Plan Fewer Layoffs, But Worry About Outlook-Survey 7/13/2010Executives of small- to medium-sized businesses in the U.S. remain reticent to hire and have lowered their expectations about the pace of U.S. growth, according to a survey rele...
read more Lieberman, Kerry make last-ditch appeal on scaled-back climate bill7/13/2010The Senate sponsors of a sweeping climate change bill are drafting a scaled-back version focused on electric power plants in a bid to salvage a role for greenhouse gas curbs in ...
- read more Unions, Business Lobbies Look to November7/12/2010
Anticipating highly competitive Congressional elections, advocacy groups are pivoting swiftly into campaign mode as they seek to preserve or overturn legislation they have inten...
read more Revisiting the Regulations Affecting Business 7/12/2010The White House has asked business leaders to identify specific regulations that they believe are obstacles to job-creating private investment.
As part of a broad policy...
read more Democrats Corral Votes on Bank Bill7/12/2010Final passage of sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation’s financial regulatory system is now a question of when — not if — according to Senate Democrats. ...
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