Capping a roller coaster week, House and Senate negotiators signed off Thursday night on a $1 trillion-plus, year-end spending bill, which House leadership expects to bring to the floor Friday, putting a rest to any threat of a government shutdown. The agreement was reached after GOP leaders
President Obama officially marked the end of the war in Iraq on Wednesday in Fort Bragg, North Carolina before an audience of Iraq War veterans.
Cabinet secretaries are preparing for a government shutdown Friday and notified government employees on what the next steps would be should one ha
With our high level of unemployment, better-designed regulations are needed to spur job creation. H.R. 3010, the Regulatory Accountability Act, would modernize the rulemaking process and is expected to be voted on in the House of Representatives this week.
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by Dave Natonski
The Chamber continues to drive the message that hangs outside of our building: JOBS JOBS JOBS. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue had an op-ed appear in the Wall Street Journal outlining the policies that we should be pursuing to put our nation back to work. The Chamber's Ex
Today, before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy, the Chamber's Bill Kovacs made the case for bringing balance and accountability back to the regulatory process.
The thrust of his testimony outlined a series of solutions to reform the regulatory proces
Following grassroots tours, beltway ad campaigns, and press conferences, the Chamber is taking its lobbying campaign on behalf of the Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) onto the Internet. The Chamber is launching online ads in 14 targeted states to push for passage of KORUS. The goal of the ads is
On the same set where Rocky was filmed, the U.S. Chamber today connected 1500 veterans and their spouses with more than 150 employers at our Hiring Our Heroes hiring fair in LA. The fair is part of the Chamber's 100 city nationwide tour to promote the hiring of veterans and their spouses and fol
The Senate Finance Committee canceled action on three long-delayed free trade agreements after Republicans boycotted the session to protest against the inclusion of TAA in the Korea FTA. Senator Hatch accused the White House and Democrats of trying to "jam" the package through Congress. But t
Following the President's statement imploring lawmakers to cancel their breaks in order to finish debt ceiling talks, The Hill reports Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "will cancel the July 4 recess so that lawmakers can continue to focus on deficit-reduction negotiations."
Adding urgency to
Driving the day today, President Obama will hold his first press conference in 3 months at 11:30 a.m. in the White House. The central question looming is one for which he isn’t likely to offer a concrete answer: Will Obama accept any debt ceiling deal with Republicans that doesn’t include some
As the federal government struggles to implement the hundreds of rules that were included in the recent health care overhaul and Dodd-Frank legislation, the Chamber has been working to improve the rulemaking process, making it smarter, less-intrusive and accountable. One way to do so, is to invol
The Chamber's trade grassroots tour moved north from Orlando today, Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association and the Ocala horse breeding farm.
While being shown award-winning thoroughbreds, horse racing memorabilia, and touring the 18-barn training facility, we learned just how vi
After making stops at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Philadelphia, the Chamber’s Korea FTA road show went inland today, beginning a three day grassroots campaign at the Disney Entrepreneurs Center in Orlando. Joined again by Korean Ambassador Han Duk-soo and an array of local businesses
Tomorrow, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Brazil-U.S. Business Council will host President Barack Obama and President Dilma Rouseff in Brasilia, Brazil, to advance the bilateral commercial relationship between the two countries. President Obama is expected to stress Brazil’s growing role in the
Later this month, the Brazil-U.S. Business Council, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will welcome President Barack Obama to Brasília as part of his travels to South America. The President will have the opportunity outline his plan for creating jobs and highlight the sustained economi
Recently, President Obama issued an Executive Order to initiate a review of excessive, inconsistent, and redundant government relations. While the Chamber applauded this move, there was still some concern that some independent agencies were not covered under the EO.
In light of this fact, Chambe
Majority Leader-Elect Eric Cantor today released the House Congressional Calendar for the first session of the 112th Congress today. The calendar was assembled by the Republican transition team and encompasses substantial input from both sides of the aisle. It contains 123 days and 32 weeks of se
Last week, the President reached a historic agreement with Korea on the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (KORUS). Congress must now act to pass this important pact. Failure to do so will lead to a decline of $35.1 billion in U.S. exports of goods and services to the world and U.S. national output
from MidEast
In the 1970s, Iraq was the most prosperous country in the Middle East, developing a robust infrastructure, well-performing education and health care systems, and taking advantage of its abundant natural and human resources. After decades of heavy conflict and economic uncertainty in Iraq, the rece
