Facebook staff educated small business owners on how to use the company's tools to connect to customers.
Positive Pocket's CEO and founder talked about what inspired her to go into business.
Now, the consumer is part of the marketing game and businesses have to adjust.
American energy exports are a success story, it’d be nice if the administration would tell it.
The U.S. Chamber has five steps on how the U.S. can move its trade agenda forward.
It's shows a lack of understanding of how the oil and gas exploration process works.
The American Petroleum Institute released a report outlining what it wants to see from candidates running for President, Senate, and Congress.
While the world’s largest democracy has undergone dramatic growth since the early part of this century, that pace has diminished recently.
Obamacare creates perverse incentives and unintended consequences.
The President’s campaign now recognizes coal’s important role in America’s energy mix. EPA should listen and not try to regulate its use out of existence.
Will coal be removed from America's energy mix?
Hiring Our Heroes joined music, movies, and television stars in Los Angeles launch the Got Your 6 campaign.
The 787 Dreamliner embodies innovations both big and small.
Continued slow economic growth and job creation were the topics at the Quarterly Economic Roundtable Series.
Warren Buffett and Rich Trumka join a bipartisan chorus in support for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Former Labor Department Secretary Robert Reich may say “socialism isn’t the answer” but what he calls for isn't American free enterprise.
The anti-energy group pulls a bait-and-switch.
The economy would have to create almost one million jobs/month between now and September to return to pre-recession job levels.
Both the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal point out that EPA is out-of-control.
Uncertainty isn’t a cynical, straw man argument. Rather, it is a significant contributor to our slow economic recovery.
The administration’s war on coal means fewer sources of electricity.
Cutting through red tape and eliminating unjustified regulatory costs will help American companies better compete globally.
The report found that the companies could save $28.6 billion in 2014 if they stopped offering health care insurance and paid a penalty to the government.
America’s aerospace sector, dependent on exports, is needed to maintain a strong industrial base.
Over the next year, more than 400 jobs fairs will be held for veterans and military spouses.
EPA official, Al Armendariz, resigned after taking heat for comments that he said his office’s philosophy was to “crucify” oil and gas companies.
Al Armendariz compared his agency regulating oil and gas companies to Roman centurions crucifying villagers.
Listen to President John F. Kennedy speak about the importance of the free enterprise system and the U.S. Chamber in defending it.
If this is how they view oil and gas companies, I can only imagine what EPA thinks about coal.
Businesses are helping to move the world a little closer to wiping out a killer disease
Stalled projects mean lost job-creating opportunities. The RAPID Act would reduce these barriers.
The Senate has a chance to tell the NLRB that it’s favoritism toward labor unions has to stop.
One in two young college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed.
The "Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development (RAPID)" Act would streamline the process for developers to obtain environmental permits and approvals.
Experts and opinion makers don’t think much of the administration going after oil speculators as a way to lower gas prices.
The President asked Congress to spend $52 million dollars to investigate oil speculators.
Our current tax code is a stress-inducing web that impedes economic growth and hurts America’s global competiveness.
The Buffett Rule isn’t about fairness, it isn’t about creating jobs, and it isn’t about reducing the deficit.
On that day, more than 80% of U.S. exports to Colombia will be duty free.
An “attack energy companies” attitude is consistent with an administration that thinks raising energy taxes makes sense.
Trade and energy will be in the mix at the Summit of the Americas.
Real fear should be aimed at a tax code that hurts job creation, stymies economic growth, and makes us less globally competitive … and is poised to get much worse.
We need comprehensive tax reform that is a set of simple, predictable rules that individuals and businesses can easily comprehend and comply with.
Because of its worldwide tax system, job-creating capital is kept away from the United States.
Other countries have been cutting their corporate tax rates to spur growth.
Instead of political games, we need serious, comprehensive tax reform.
The real take-away from Brian Beutler’s chart is the job-creating power of domestic energy development.
Instead of election-driven tax talk, we need comprehensive tax reform that lowers both individual and corporate tax rates to increase growth.
With the Panama Canal undergoing expansion and increasing U.S. exports, the need for modern ports to move goods is critical to the economy.
Momentum continues to build for a trade pact between the United States and the European Union.
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 120,000 in March, well below expectations.
Both a labor union leader and the Wall Street Journal editorial page agree on something: EPA's proposed greenhouse gas rule is a job-killer.
Standard and Poor’s warned that there is the risk of a credit crisis if Congress doesn’t pass a long-term highway bill.
The U.S. Chamber, along with the National Federation for Independent Businesses, the Kalamazoo Regional Chamber Of Commerce, and the Cornerstone Chamber of Commerce held a Facebook Small Business Boost event in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
America is actually in worse shape now than we have been for most of the past forty years.
The department is touting a program that they've been trying to eliminate.
Workers and families who drive on the roads are waiting for some reduced stress on their pocketbooks and their schedules.
The United States corporate tax rate became the highest in the world, and that's no joke.
The hardest band in the world needs a roadie and only a veteran will do.
It’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad few weeks for EPA.
The on-going saga of the highway bill continued when Congress passed a 90-day extension that the President signed.
A bill that would raise taxes on oil and gas companies failed in the Senate again.
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and former Congressman Vin Weber ask Congress to re-authorize the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) and expand its lending ability.
New York City job fair connects over 1,000 veterans and military spouses with over 100 employers.
EPA dropped a greenhouse gas rule that will cost jobs and hurt the reliability of the electricity grid.
Economists have been studying how this recovery differs from previous ones. What's needed is more economic growth.
Here is a series of posts pointing out the most significant promises broken to date by the health care law.
A reliable infrastructure is critical to helping American companies take advantage of new trade opportunities.
The health care law doesn't tackle a problem facing small businesses--rising health care costs.
By 2013, it’s estimated that as many as 69% of all employer plans and 80% of small businesses’ plans will lose their grandfathered status.
The President’s energy tour stopped in Cushing, Oklahoma.
Making sure the uninsured get meaningful health care is important, but using Medicaid as a means to do so is doomed to failure.
It’s not funny that job creation and improved energy security take a backseat.
If ERRP’s costs were incorrectly anticipated, what does that mean for the entire health care law?
A classic case of overpromising and underdelivering.
The Wall Street Journal laid out the long-term agenda of the anti-business left to coerce, browbeat, and embarrass businesses from taking part in the political process.
Free enterprise not only blesses those living under it with hope, prosperity, and opportunity, it offers the means to repair broken nations.
While American oil and gas production in total is rising, an Energy Information Agency (EIA) report released earlier this week finds that it's going in the opposite direction on federal and Indian lands.
The Export-Import Bank will run out of funding unless action is taken by May 31.
Looking for villains and pitting “us versus them” doesn’t make us more energy secure.
A new report from the Heritage Foundation finds that the federal government continues weighing down the economy with more regulations.
Energy Secretary Chu walked back from his 2008 comment about wanting gas prices to be as high as in Europe.
The administration's energy policy is as muddled as their defense of what they’ve been doing about gas prices.
Hiring Our Heroes held a jobs fair in Pittsburgh. They have held over 100 jobs fairs, and pledge to host 400 more in the program's second year.
A new report, Export Nation 2012, released by the Brookings Institution this week, is the latest study showing how much economic activity and jobs result from exporting American goods and services.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released February 2012's jobs numbers.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when Jay Carney created an alternate universe and told the White House press corps that “the President didn't turn down the Keystone pipeline”?
Bill supports "crowdfunding" and reduces regulations to help startups raise capital.
Business Roundtable released Taking Action for America.
For over a year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has been on a crusade to ban caramel (technically called 4-MEI) used to color soft drinks.
Powering America educates the public about how nuclear power works, the safety precautions that go into producing it, and how important it is for our economy.
We end up with jobs lost and a less reliable electricity grid.
James Q. Wilson's study of humanity’s innate morality helps us understand how our free enterprise system benefits society.
Last week, the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) dropped a hefty report about a host of duplicative programs costing the federal government billions of dollars.
The New York Times editorial page has no qualms regurgitating the administration's energy rhetoric.
In his essay, professor and media pundit, Jeff Jarvis argues that Johannes Gutenberg was the first tech entrepreneur.
Before there was the U.S. Chamber, local chambers of commerce advanced civic change.
Regulators and Congress should review rules to see if they're working, are still needed, and are the most-effective way to solve the problem.
Raising taxes will improve energy security?
More power plants will be shut down because of EPA rules.
Our country deserves a more serious, all-of-the-above approach on energy.
On the need for the U.S. to finish work on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement currently being negotiated by nine Pacific Rim countries.
TransCanada announced today that it will go ahead and build a portion of the Keystone XL pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to oil refineries in the Gulf Coast.
Six months after a federal raid, the company still hasn't been charged with any crimes and has yet to have its day in court.
If you have kids or you remember when you were one, you know that patience is a virtue.
Denigrating businesspeople and entrepreneurs and accusing them of not paying their “fair share” is class warfare rhetoric more fit for campaign commercials.
Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist of the Progressive Policy Institute, concluded in a study that the App Economy has created almost 500,000 jobs.
Defenders of the regulatory status quo can’t ignore persistently high unemployment.
Voters want regulatory reform.
Yes, the President did turn down the Keystone XL pipeline.
The administration has been getting "innovative" in measuring the benefits of new regulations.
U.S. Chamber staff crisscross the country educating Americans about the need to pass the highway bill.
Rule after rule after rule grips the economy, squeezing out its vitality.
The Justice Department needs to pull back and stick to the FCPA's original purpose in fighting international bribery.
Uncertainty surrounding regulations and NLRB recess appointments is stifling business.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) urges the Senate to vote to repeal the CLASS Act.
While the economy sputters along, law firms are opening office in Washington, D.C.
By rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline we'll miss out on "a shovel-ready project" that would "immediately provide 20,000 jobs.
A view of the economy from a business-owning Senator.
With 43.9 percent of the unemployed out of work for 27 weeks or more, today’s America faces the unusual challenge of long-term unemployment.
"American corporations are consistently paying at the highest levels in the world, and that burden impacts their ability to compete both at home and abroad."
The Kauffman Foundation's latest survey of economics bloggers.
The administration went from issuing an offshore drilling moratorium in 2010 to bragging about offshore lease sales. What it’s not touting are long permitting delays.
These are the ads you'll be talking about on Monday.
While Facebook is an amazing story of risk-taking and entrepreneurship, it's also an opportunity to remind policy makers that the United States' capital markets aren't as robust and competitive as they could be.
Regulators are batting .271 on Dodd-Frank.
What’s needed is fundamental regulatory reform to tackle the right problems and find the best solutions.
Hiring Our Heroes is in New Orleans today for a job fair for veterans and their spouses at the Superdome.
The House of Representatives will vote to repeal the CLASS Program, a program even the administration admits can't work.
Businesses aren't sure what direction the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will go.
Saying something often enough doesn’t mean it’s true. Geithner’s comment runs smack-dab against what individual investors, economists, and small business owners are saying.
Also, a group of companies talked about the 13,000 jobs that will be created from construction of the pipeline.
While Washington dithers and misses out on thousands of jobs and increased energy security, Canada searches for more customers.
EPA's Utility MACT, A.K.A. the Blackout Rule, hit more power plants, costing more jobs.
U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue talked to CNN Money about the President's proposals in this week's State of the Union speech.
Manufacturers are taking it upon themselves to train a quality workforce.
Randy Johnson, the Chamber’s senior vice president of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits talked to Fox Business Channel about keeping immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.S. to create jobs.
The administration's oil and gas exploration "blueprint" adds virtually no new production and takes years of potential energy off the table.
U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue talked to Fox Business Channel about what he took away from the President's State of the Union speech.
The investment website The Motley Fool asked its online community, “What’s holding the economy back?” Almost 70% said, “Uncertainty caused by Washington.”
The New York Times digs into why the iPhone isn’t manufactured in the United States. From their reporting we find one reason is that China has a source of skilled workers that could be put to work quickly.
The public doesn’t like where the economy is going, but doesn’t think more regulations are the answer.
America is missing out on needed infrastructure investment because Washington can't get its act together.
Robert Samuelson sure wasn't pleased with the President's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, calling it "an act of insanity." I bet he won't be any happier after reading the news that North Dakota producers who planned on using the pipeline to move their oil to Gulf refiners will have to rely on more-costly rail.
Business, union, and political leaders from both parties spoke out strongly against President Obama's decision to not issue a permit.
In Nebraska, where the pipeline would pass through, small business owners are also dismayed at the decision.
Indiana Governor to take national stage.
Watch where the Chamber came from and how it will continue promoting American Free Enterprise.
The Chamber's 2012 agenda is about creating jobs and growing the economy. As Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue wrote on RealClearPolitics, even if it is an election year, it is imperative that a pro-growth agenda moves forward.
Trails Canada for the freest country in North America.
Hostess, the company behind the Twinkie, sadly, filed for bankruptcy, but it's part of a story of ingenuity and creativity in free enterprise to make life a little sweeter.
Las Vegas understands 95% of world's population lives outside the United States, so they're making it a goal to have 30% of their visitors come from outside the U.S.
A New Jersey pharmacy is being forced to pay $1.4 million because a teenager was permanently injured after overdosing on Xanax stolen by a former pharmacy employee.
The Chamber’s President and CEO, Tom Donohue appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, to preview next Thursday’s State of American Business Address.
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg criticize President Obama's unprecedented appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Expanding America's energy options was the theme of American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard's State of American Energy speech.
On January 12, Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue will deliver the annual State of American Business Address where he will outline how the business community will engage Washington and educate voters on pro-growth policies to get Americans working.
America is getting a two-fer from the North Dakota energy boom.
2012, the Year of the Dragon, will have some notable milestones. It's also a special year for us.
2011 has been a challenging year. Though the economy is showing signs of improvement, it’s not growing fast enough or creating enough new jobs. Washington policymakers have missed numerous opportunities to enact policies that will spark new jobs and economic growth. Nevertheless, not all was lost in 2011 in the policymaking arena. There were a handful of significant legislative, regulatory, and legal victories for the nation’s job creators.
The Christmas shopping season ended with a roar that should please retailers and economy-watchers.
In light of an AP analysis of the Blackout Rule, A.K.A. Utility MACT, showing that across the country more than 32 power plants will be shut down, over 500 power plants will be "idled temporarily in the next few years," and 14.7 gigawatts of electricity generation will be taken offline, I've put
Hydraulic fracturing, a technique used for decades to safely extract energy out of the ground, has turned parts of the United States into boom towns with jobs created and businesses thriving.
The Wall Street Journal looked into a recent report on how hydraulic fracturing may have polluted groundw
Editor’s Note: This post by Sean Hackbarth, originally appeared in ChamberPost, the official blog of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
All Clark Griswold wanted was to add some Christmas cheer to his home. He spent days stringing thousands of lights up and down his house and jury-rigging extensio
New Commerce Secretary, John Bryson, spoke to the Chamber about helping American businesses grow and create jobs.
The conversation on regulatory reform continues today in the Wall Street Journal, where an editorial makes a strong case that the administration is perpetuating an environment where the number of costly regulations go up and businesses get wrapped in more red tape with the end result being a lackl
from MidEast
Egypt, at the forefront of the Arab Spring movement, is facing big challenges as it evolves to a more open political system. Egypt has been closely-connected strategically to the United States for decades, but closer economic ties between the two countries would benefit the Egyptian people and the and their budding democracy.
from MidEast
The Hill headlines fits perfectly: "Iraq is Open for Business." Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited the Chamber today to mark the transition from U.S. military engagement to economic engagement through commerce, trade, and investment.
Indian engineering graduate, Ashish Kumar, has been working for a New Jersey IT company since 2003 on a renewed H1B visa. Per-country caps have kept him waiting for years for a green card, and he was considering taking his engineering skills back home to India until the House of Representatives pa
Economist Mark Perry put together a chart showing how the percentage of net oil imports as a share of U.S. consumption has been decreasing since 2005.
In the Wall Street Journal, THE energy guru, Daniel Yergin, points out that one part of the explanation is decreased oil consumption, but anoth
The "Blackout Rule," A.K.A.Utility MACT, is the most expensive EPA rule in history. If enacted too soon, it threatens the U.S. energy supply, will cost jobs, and raise electricity rates. The Chamber is running this ad on network and cable television asking Americans to tell President Obama that
"All we are is dust in the wind..."
I've been humming a certain Kansas tune this afternoon, because the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1633, the "Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011." The bill will keep EPA from regulating farm dust like it's mercury or some other pollutant instea
This morning, the U.S. Senate failed to garner enough votes to advance the nomination of Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The problem isn't with the man, it's with a bureau that's unaccountable to Congress and the American people.
In Politico today, David Hi
EPA is about to unveil the costliest rule in its history—and the Chamber is leading an effort to make sure the business community’s voice is heard. By December 16th, EPA is scheduled to release the Utility MACT rule, which could cause significant electricity reliability constraints that would h
The South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) is paying off. Shopfloor links to news that Toyota will export Camrys from their Kentucky plant to South Korea.
We already knew millions of American jobs are supported by trade. Now, add some more from a trade agreement that's not even two months old. It
Later today, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act. It would require Congress to pass and the President to sign any proposed regulation with a projected impact of over $100 million on the economy.
As Chamber Executiv
This Tax Foundation video illustrates how the United States is losing ground by not keeping up with corporate tax reform in other countries. As Caroline Harris has written, "An overly high corporate tax rate and a double tax on overseas income" make it harder for American companies to compete glob
This is from the "Strange Stuff You Learn on the Internet" file. Farmers, manufacturers, trucking companies, and airlines aren't the only one who use derivatives to lock in prices. Add Metallica to the list. Their manager uses the financial instruments to mitigate foreign currency risk and ensur
Polls, like the Chamber's Small Business Outlook Survey, show small business owners see policy uncertainty as an obstacle to greater job creation and more economic growth. This isn't just perception. When economists take a serious look at this, they indeed find a connection.
In their paper "Eco
Canada and the United States share a 5,525 mile border–the world's longest–and a close trading partnerships. Unfortunately, over the years, barriers have arisen to make it harder to travel and trade across the border, threatening economic growth and job creation.
In a jointly penned op-ed, Perr
A "derivative" sounds like a scary thing, a boogie-man that creeps out of the closet late at night and causes huge gyrations in financial markets. That's the horror story caricature of derivatives.
In the real world, businesses and farmers don't use derivatives for wild speculation. They use them
As the House votes today on H.R. 3010, "The Regulatory Accountability Act," Bill Kovacs, the Chamber’s Senior Vice President for Environment, Technology & Regulatory Affairs, explains why the legislation improves the regulatory process by making it more transparent, accountable, and open to public
This week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on “The Regulatory Accountability Act” (RAA).
In a Daily Caller op-ed, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and one of the bill’s lead co-sponsors, describes the RAA as:
a bipartisan, bicameral bill that ensures
The on-going saga of CLASS, the unworkable long-term care program that is part of the 2010 health care reform law, continued yesterday when the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 33-17 to repeal it. Three Democrats joined every Republican in a bipartisan vote.
The administration shuttered
Washington cleared three big hurdles on trade last month by passing the agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, but this shouldn’t offer the impression that the finish line is sight for our trade agenda, merely that the race is just beginning.
And I don't mean when it comes to soccer.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers along with the World Bank, and the International Finance Corp. released the Paying Taxes 2012 report ranking how easy it is to pay taxes across the globe.
The rankings are based on "the taxes and mandatory contributions that a medi
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday made for a promising start to the holiday shopping season. Gallup found shoppers spent an average of $98/day through the weekend, six dollars higher than last year.
I got a chance to talk to Tita Freeman of the National Retail Federation abo
"Time Warp" must be an earworm in Paul Krugman's head, because he's pushing for tax policies that died decades ago. His latest column on raising taxes wasn't "fake an alien invasion" bad, but it's a case of Krugman ignoring smart economics and history.
His argument for raising taxes on high-inc
In the video clip above, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson lays out what she perceives to be EPA's role in the economy. She told energyNow! [emphasis mine], "What EPA's role is to do is to level the playing field so that pollution costs are not exported to the population but rather companies have t
If you're not prepping for tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner you're probably planning on how to get a good start on your Christmas shopping. Maybe you'll be shopping on Black Midnight or early on Black Friday to snag some deals.
While that's fine, don't forget to think local. There are some great,
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Former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Peter Schaumber, talked to ABC News about how out-of-control the agency has become.
He said, “Something has to be done about the National Labor Relations Board, because unfortunately
Doug Pinkham, President of the Public Affairs Council, pulled out some interesting nuggets from their Public Affairs Pulse survey about how certain demographics view American business.
More than 60% of Americans have a favorable view of major companies, and 90% have a favorable view of small busi
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one of those agencies that based on its name sounds warm and fuzzy like Consumer Reports or the Better Business Bureau.
The reality is the agency, created by the Dodd-Frank law, will be run by a single director who can be removed by the President only
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been in the news lately mostly for its attempt to drive work from Boeing's recently-opened South Carolina plant. But a more nefarious issue, having to do with ambush elections has been flying underneath the radar.
A recent Free Enterprise cover story
from BCLC
Last week, the Chamber’s Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) held its 12th annual Corporate Citizenship Awards to honor leading corporate citizens.
This year's winners are:
Best U.S. Business Neighbor: UnitedHealth Group for using their resources and technological expertise to fight Ame
Yesterday, Congressional Budget Office director, Douglas Elmendorf delivered sobering news to Senators that he expects slow economic growth and the unemployment rate to remain around 9% through 2012.
Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and former economic ad
Despite what Sen. Reid said on the Senate floor today that there isn't a "single shred of evidence" that regulations hurt the economy, former Democratic Senator and Governor of Indiana, Evan Bayh reminds us in an Evansville Courier Press op-ed this week that bad implementation of regulations do in
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee voted today to repeal CLASS, the unworkable, long-term care program tucked into the 2010 health care bill. It moves to the full House Energy and Commerce Committee.
To coincide with the vote today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans release
The ad above the Chamber started running today in major national newspapers make plain and clear that Keystone XL is about JOBS. SECURITY. NOW.
There are two things we know will result from the delay in moving forward with the Keystone XL pipeline project: lost jobs and less energy security. Ye
The Supreme Court announced today they will take up the legal challenge to the health care law. [via memeorandum]:
The high court agreed to hear two major questions: whether the law's key provision is unconstitutional, and if so, whether the entire law, with its 450 sections, must be scrappe
Hiring Our Heroes, the Chamber's effort to help unemployed veterans and their spouses find jobs is making a difference. Kevin Schmiegel, Vice President for Veterans Affairs at the Chamber, gave Crain's Chicago Business some numbers:
In 24 total hiring fairs, we've connected 23,000 veterans and
Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, worries that the global economy "runs the risk of [a] downward spiral of uncertainty, financial instability and potential collapse of global demand" which could lead to a "lost decade." She urges that advanced economies enact pro-growth policies to prevent this
Small businesses continue to struggle to hire workers, according to two newly released surveys.
A survey [via Washington Whispers] by small and mid-sized business software supplier Sage North America found that over the next six months just 7% of small businesses surveyed expect to increase emplo
November 23 is the supercommittee's deadline for finding $1.2 trillion in deficit savings. Reports have members deadlocked on a plan with the shadow of automatic spending cuts hovering over them.
The Chamber's Executive Vice President for Government Affairs, Bruce Josten, talked with Reuters ab
The Senate is zeroing in on repealing the 3% Withholding Tax, H.R. 674. This is a bipartisan bill, has the support of the President, and is waiting for the Senate to act.
Repeal of the 3% Withholding Tax is part of Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-MA) jobs bill, which he outlined in Saturday’s Weekly Republ
The U.S. Chamber will host its quarterly economic briefing tomorrow morning to highlight the impact of policies on specific business sectors.
Dr. Martin Regalia, the Chamber’s chief economist, will lead a panel discussion on the state of the economy, the latest employment report, what’s happening
Add a new term to the holiday shopping season lexicon: "Black Midnight." A number of retailers will open on midnight after Thanksgiving giving shoppers a chance to burn off some of that turkey and mashed potatoes while checking a few things off their shopping lists.
Market research firm Lab42 sur
Jim Skinner, CEO of McDonald's, knows a little about creating jobs. His company has been growing its sales in a challenging economy and has continued to hire workers. In April, McDonald's hired 62,000 people in one day.
For Skinner, the biggest issue is job creation. What does he think should b
More U.S. imported oil should come from Canada. That’s what 79% of registered voters said in a poll conducted by Harris Interactive for the American Petroleum Institute.
The poll also found 80% said they thought the federal government policies should allow pipelines to transport Canadian oil in
World leaders, including President Obama, arrived in Cannes for the G20 summit where most of the discussions revolve around the European financial crisis. Myron Brillant, the Chamber's Senior Vice President for International Affairs, advises that an outcome from these talks should be the public
Occasionally, politicians let their guard down, tell us what they really think, and show how out of touch they can be. Take former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who told CNBC that she has no problem with the National Labor Relations Board shutting down the Boeing plant in South Carolina becaus
In Politico today, Bruce Josten, the Chamber's Executive Vice President for Government Affairs, joined Dan Danner, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business, Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, and Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National
Events in Europe over the past months have made people even more skittish about the future.
Increasing American economic growth not only is needed to drive down the unacceptably high unemployment rate, improve our public finances, and restore optimism in our country, but as Stanford economics pro
There's been some debate lately about whether policy uncertainty is weighing down the economy and hampering job creation. Take some anecdotal evidence and combine it with what small business owners say worries them, and it's reasonable to assume that unease from federal government policies have
The movement to repeal CLASS, the long-term care insurance program that is part of the 2010 health care reform law, grew with a second Democrat joining the chorus of Republican voices who want to make the program disappear:
Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah) on Wednesday became the first Democrat to pub
For months, it's been thought that the State Department would make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline project by the end of the year. Now, there are reports that a decision may be delayed until next year.
As the administration continues to ponder, another political leader came out in favor of
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, noted an important truth about regulations:
"Regulation prohibits real innovation, because the regulation essentially defines a path to follow," Mr. Schmidt said. This "by definition has a bias to the current outcome, because it's a path for the curr
Just because they have a Nobel Prize-winning economist writing for them doesn't mean the folks at the New York Times editorial page understand economics. Their editorial opposing a tax holiday on repatriated earnings is pretty weak stuff.
It boils down to this: Either we let hundreds of billions
Infrastructure improvement is driving the debate in Washington this week. Following Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue's appearance on This Week in which he discussed the jobs-generating impact of infrastructure investment, there's news that House Republicans are pitching their transportation b
Stacks of rules and regulations suffocate businesses and keep them from growing and creating jobs. Check out the Chamber's Senior Vice President, Communications and Strategy, Tom Collamore's op-ed in the Washington Post on why Congress needs to make regulatory reform a top job-creating priority:
Marine Corporal Megan Morse served in Iraq, was injured, and returned home looking for work. She is one of more than 2,600 veterans and military spouses who have found jobs through the Chamber's Hiring Our Heroes initiative.
This Saturday, Kevin Schmiegel, the Chamber's vice president of Vetera
The Chamber's Workforce Freedom Initiative started running an ad today in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Virginia to illustrate the economic damage caused by the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) regulatory overreach.
This Free Enterprise magazine feature story about this little-known but pow
The "Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011," soon to be voted on in the Senate, would stop the government from collecting an interest-free loan from businesses doing work for federal, state, and local governments. Unless the withholding tax is repealed, on January 1, 2013, the IRS will begin taking 3
Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has been making it loud and clear that uncertainty from Washington is a leading driver of our stalled economy. In an interview with the AP, he talked about what Congress should be doing to boost growth and get people back to work:
In the video above from a recent Chamber event, former Democratic Indiana governor and U.S. Senator Evan Bayh told the audience, "This is not the time for adding to the burdens of the business community."
Yesterday, Sen. Bayh took that message to business leaders in Fresno, CA and talked about
Over the past few years, I've been a spoiled Wisconsin sports fan. The Wisconsin Badgers went to the Rose Bowl this year and are one of the top teams in college football. The Wisconsin Women's Hockey team won a national title. The Milwaukee Brewers had their best season ever and were two wins aw
Last week, CLASS was determined to be unworkable because of its unsustainable financial structure, declared by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to be a "budget gimmick," and supposedly shut down by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Full repeal of the program seems to be a good i
In today's Wall Street Journal, former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford sees the potential for job creation "all around us." Gas development in the Northeast, oil leases in Alaska, and oil tanker construction in Philadelphia show energy development as a promising area for growth. The problem is
Last week, I asked, "Does CLASS still exist?" We now have an answer.
Rebuilding America's roads, bridges, sewage systems, and other infrastructure isn't about throwing billions of dollars around and hoping good things happen. As Andrew Herrmann, president-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), writes in an op-ed in Politico today, it's about inves
For American businesses like Quality Float Works, free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama means no longer being at a competitive disadvantage against German manufacturers in South Korea.
In a global economy, capital goes where it is welcome, where it feels protected, and where it has the best opportunity to earn a profit. For American worldwide companies, that place is not the United States because of its byzantine tax code.
$1.4 trillion in earnings is in the overseas accounts
It takes a lot to step away from the challenging and creative world of small business into the rough-and-tumble world of politics.
Sheryll Poe of Free Enterprise magazine sat down with freshmen Reps. Bobby Schilling (R-IL), Richard Hanna (R-NY), and Scott Tipton (R-CO) to find out what it's been
Giovanni Coratolo, the Chamber's vice president of Small Business Policy, talked to Fox News Channel about the results of the Chamber's latest Small Business Survey. He noted that almost nine out of ten small business owners think the economy is on the wrong track because of over-regulation, lack
Just like NBA fans wonder if their favorite teams will play this season, the Chamber's Small Business Survey for the third quarter of 2011 found that small businesses remain uncertain about the economy and are hesitant to hire.
A vast majority of respondents, 89%, believe the economy is on the
The votes on the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama are expected to (finally!) take place this week. The Chamber and the business community continue to educate Congress and the public about the need to pass these agreements. The U.S. can't fall behind our g
The American Jobs Act, to be voted by on by the U.S. Senate, contains a new 5.6% surtax on incomes over $1 million that would hit "hundreds of thousands of small business owners and operators and almost half of all pass-through income." This legislation "would do harm to America’s business owners
Friday's jobs report showing the economy isn't producing enough jobs adds more pressure on Washington to push forward pro-growth policies. Progressive Economy's Ed Gresser suggests that one way to achieve growth is "to tap foreign demand through exports."
The pending free trade agreements (FTAs
Passing the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama is not only about their job-creating potential. It's also about deepening relations with these three global partners. As President Obama's National Security Adviser, Tom Donilon writes in the Wall Street Jour
Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said hydraulic fracturing is "a necessary part of the future of natural gas." He went on to note that natural gas is "a very important domestic source of energy for us."
I'm glad that the secretary appreciates the role hydraulic fracturing has to play in
The federal government can be a strange place, but what is going on with the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) has me scratching my head.
Just like an assortment of mandates placed on employers and individuals, CLASS was tucked into the health care law.
On ChamberPost, we talk a lot about how regulations--existing and proposed--hurt job creation. By passing H.R. 2250, the “EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011,” and H.R. 2681, the “Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011,” the House of Representatives can do something this week to protect jobs.
Just like Major League Baseball's playoffs that started this weekend, the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama are at a critical stage now that President Obama sent them to Congress for approval.
The President said:
The series of trade agreements I am
There are reports that the White House will finally send the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama to Congress. Today, the President said there would be an announcement "in the next day or so."
This is good news that has been a long time coming--almost five y
We learned this week from a Kaiser Family Foundation survey that after several years of relatively modest premium increases, annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage increased to $15,073 this year, up 9% from last year.
Sadly, a 9% premium increase would sound pretty good to
Saratoga Springs, NY joins Grand Rapids, MI, and Traverse City, MI in the "lip dub" phenomenon.
The Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce helped organize the production of the video and built a website as a way to attract talented workers to their county.
Right now, semiconductor maker, GlobalFo
If you take away oil imports--an issue all by itself--the free trade agreements (FTAs) the U.S. has with 17 countries accounts for a trade surplus.
When you hear opponents of the pending FTAs with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama worry about an increased trade deficit, show them this Third Way i
Charles Schwab, founder and CEO of the company bearing his name, wrote in the Wall Street Journal today about the need to support entrepreneurs who will lift the sluggish economy:
What's the potential power of the entrepreneur's simple leap of faith? The success of a single business has a sign
The first thing that popped into my head when I read Blair's post yesterday about the Kaiser study showing health insurance premiums continuing to increase (up by 9% since last year!) was The 5th Dimension singing "Up, Up, and Away."
Maybe I spend too much time on YouTube.
Anyway, one of the C
This morning at the U.S. Chamber, Michael Bloomberg - businessman, New York City Mayor, and co-chair of Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE) – outlined his plan to reform America's high skilled immigration system to ensure that the United States remains a strong global innovator, compet
Today, President Obama announced his administration would give waivers from some parts of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law to states in exchange for having them adopt high academic standards, "link teacher evaluations to student performance and create an accountability system that reports the l
When it comes to energy, there's a lot we can learn from some of our global competitors.
Brazil isn't holding itself back. It's wasting no time developing recently discovered oil and natural gas offshore, as well as on land.
China continues to lock up new resources by negotiating deals all
Myron Brilliant, Chamber Senior Vice President for International Affairs, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning to talk about the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama. He noted that by not passing the FTAs American companies are losing market share to ot
If you play Madden NFL, FIFA, Battlefield, or The Sims, on your Xbox, PlayStation3, or computer, you play Electronic Arts games. But if you play The Sims Social on Facebook or Scrabble on your iPhone, EA also entertains you.
EA CEO John Riccitiello talked to CNBC's Jim Kramer about how his compan
If patience is a virtue, then those waiting for Washington to approve the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama have been saints. But the need to grow our sluggish economy and create jobs has lifted the level of urgency.
There's bipartisan support for these t
The Calgary Herald previewed Tom Donohue’s recommendations for economic growth as part of today’s Global Business Forum in Banff, Canada. In an interview, Donohue called for a focus on energy as a way to create jobs in the U.S. “We need to strengthen our energy relationship with Canada,” Dono
There are those who think it'd be just fine to raise taxes on the "rich" and that the "rich" don't pay their "fair share." But it only shows that they need a refresher course in mathematics. In May, the Chamber's Chief Economist Dr. Martin Regalia looked at how income taxes are distributed and f
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the National Labor Relations Board to block a rule that will require businesses to post notices about employees’ rights to unionize. “This is nothing more than labor regulation run amok,” the Chamber’s Robin Conrad said, “The board’s new rule violates the First
Today, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) spoke to me about how the delay in passing the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama is causing America to fall behind its global competitors.
It doesn't take a genius to know that failing to pass the pending FTAs puts America
President Obama’s unveiling of his deficit reduction plan debuted a more combative phase of his presidency that will likely last up to the 2012 election, marked by his veto threat of any deficit plan that does not include tax increases. Republicans were quick to issue sharp criticism, calling h
Long before Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube became the “in” things to give your business a digital edge, there was the humble blog. One of the first low-cost publishing tools, the blog remains an important marketing and business development device with unique characteristics that make it a must-have on your business’ digital checklist. Here’s what a blog gives you:
Last week, Gallup found jobs and unemployment returned as the most-pressing concern for Americans. Floundering economic growth and slow job creation are on the public's mind. They're deeply displeased at the direction of the country, so it's imperative that our leaders in Washington take steps to
As part of its Regulation Nation series, Fox Business interviewed Bill Kovacs, U.S. Chamber senior vice president of Environment, Technology, and Regulatory Affairs. Kovacs talked about the ever-growing number of EPA regulations facing businesses and urged the administration the reform the permitt
The skeptics contend that the congressional debt supercommittee’s goal of hammering out a plan to cut at least $1.2 trillion off the national debt is as fruitless as finding buried treasure. But supercommittee members Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Rob Portman (R-OH) say they intend to surprise the
President Obama will propose a new higher tax rate for millionaires—called the “Buffett Rule”—as part of his broad plan for long-term deficit reduction that he will outline today. Calling for $1.5 trillion in new revenue, the plan seeks to find more than $3 trillion in budget savings over a
Today, the House Small Business Committee launched Small Biz Open Mic as a forum for small business owner to speak directly to Congress about government policies affecting them.
Committee Chairman Rep. Sam Graves describes the site as a:
new media forum that encourages blog-type comments and
Here's an update to a post on Monday about Texas electricity producer, Luminant, having to slash 500 jobs because of EPA regulations. The PJ Tatler links to a letter from the company to EPA showing how they've tried to abide by the agency's rules.
In the same post, Bryan Preston also informs us t
Imagine standing inside a giant hourglass with sand falling down on you. Little by little the small pile grows bigger. A few grains fall on top of a few other grains. You don't notice the heap until it towers over you.
Our regulatory system is like that. At the beginning, a few well-meaning, co
Whether drawn to the United States by the white sandy beaches of Florida's Gulf Coast, the crisp air of the ski slopes in the Rockies, or the buzz of international commerce in Chicago or New York, foreign travelers to America support millions of U.S. businesses and workers. One of the six steps
At the launch of Our Time’s Buy Young initiative at the Chamber in July, Jill Donenfeld, founder of the home chef service The Culinistas (formerly The Dish's Dish), told her story of bootstrapping her company after graduating from college.
Remember playing softball and the pitcher tossed you a pitch that floated so perfectly towards you and looked like such a big target that you couldn't help but hit it over the fence?
When it comes to something that could create jobs, our leaders in Washington have a pitch coming at them that th
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been on a tear recently in tipping the scales to favor unions over employers.
To educate lawmakers and the public on the radical, pro-union agenda coming from the NLRB and the Department of Labor, the Chamber launched a radio ad campaign today in Fl
A job-killing EPA regulation is costing 500 Texans their jobs:
Texas energy company Luminant announced on Monday new burdensome Environmental Protection Agency regulations are forcing it to close several facilities, which will result in about 500 job losses.
The company will be idling — stop
The focus this week in Washington continues to be about getting Americans back to work. This morning, President Obama spoke in the Rose Garden about his jobs plan that he will send to Congress later today. Last night, The Daily Beast published an op-ed by President and CEO Tom Donohue on what the
The president’s jobs plan calls for tens of billions of dollars of additional investment in roads, rails, and airports and $10 billion in seed money for a new national infrastructure bank. We’re encouraged that the president recognizes the need to modernize the nation’s aging infrastructure. Inf
I'm distracted today. You see, the NFL starts its regular season tonight with my team, the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers hosting the New Orleans Saints. When "trade" pops in my mind today, I'm wondering who the Packers got from another team to beef up the depth to their offensi
Today, John Murphy, Vice President, International Affairs, and Tami Overby, Vice President for Asia, talked to reporters about the Chamber's push to get the pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama through Congress.
Murphy said the Chamber is taking nothing for grant
With everyone from the president, to Governor Romney, to top lawmakers, to the Chamber offering a jobs plan this week, the one constant idea seems to be support for passing the three pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. To echo these calls, the Chamber i
When Chamber Chief Economist Martin Regalia isn't hosting economic briefings or offering cogent economic analysis, he's on Bloomberg Television talking about the Chamber's jobs plan and making the case for economic growth.
"When you don't grow at your long-run potential, you don't create jobs, do
Here's a quick history lesson. Calvin Coolidge, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan all have something in common besides being president. All three understood that lowering taxes spurs economic growth. Growth is exactly what's needed to put 14 million currently unemployed back to work.
While we wan
With recent weak economic numbers, Congress returning to Washington, and everyone--including the Chamber--focused on job creation, the timing was right for the Chamber's quarterly economic briefing.
Michael Gooch, Chairman and CEO of GFI Group, started off by noting that "certain proposed SEC a
This ad running this week in national newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and USA Today is part of the Chamber's nationwide print, online, and social media ad blitz to rally its members, grassroots supporters, and the public around six steps Washington can take to create millions of new j
Chamber Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Martin Regalia talked to CNBC about the Chamber's six step jobs plan and how the biggest bang for the buck can come from passing the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama.
Check out this video of Chamber President and CEO, Tom Donohue outlining the six steps Congress and the President can do now to grow the economy and create jobs:
Then read Donohue's op-ed in today's Columbus Dispatch on the six "practical, private-sector ideas that can be quickly turned into ac
Zero.
That was the number many Americans were talking about during the unofficial final weekend of summer, because that was the number of net jobs created in August.
Zero isn't so much a number as the absence of one. It's a void, a hole. Our economy is in a hole with millions of people unemplo
I don't know what got stuck in Bill Saporito's craw. Maybe the power to his home was still out due to Hurricane Irene. Maybe he’s frustrated that the Yankees are trailing the Red Sox in the standings. Or maybe he was just grouchy from the lack of coffee yesterday. For whatever the reason, he lashe
This year, unions cranked up their political voices in Madison, Wisconsin and other state capitals. But it looks like raising the volume only lowered their respect with public opinion.
Gallup found that 42% of Americans want unions to have less influence.
On Fox News, Tom Donohue talked to Neil Cavuto about the jobs plan the Chamber will send to Congress and the White House next week.
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Former Indiana governor and U.S. Senator Evan Bayh appeared on Fox Business saying new health care, environmental, and financial regulations in the pipeline make businesses unwilling to hire and invest.
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
Say Anything's Rob Port asks rhetorically, "H
Since we entered this economic slowdown, the Chamber has been committed to increasing economic growth and getting unemployed Americans back to work. At the annual Labor Day briefing, Chamber Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Dr. Martin Regalia and Senior Vice President for Labor, Immigr
Over the last few weeks, anti-energy protesters have marched to the White House with signs, sat down on the ground, and gotten themselves arrested (while recording their YouTube moments) to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline project. Movie actress Daryl Hannah took her turn yesterday in being led awa
On Saturday at the American Legion national convention in Minneapolis, the Chamber held a Hiring Our Heroes job fair for veterans and their spouses.
Over the next year, the Chamber will hold 100 jobs fairs to connect employers with 100,000 veterans and their spouses. Make sure you "like" Hiri
Earlier today, I noted that one of small business owner Mike Becci's worries is about EPA's new ozone regulations, which threaten to increase electricity prices for businesses and consumers. HotAir.com's Ed Morrissey (at about the three-minute mark) echoed that sentiment on Fox Business over the w
In a Richmond Times-Dispatch op-ed yesterday, Mike Bucci, president of K&M of VA Inc. expresses his frustration with Washington piling on costly regulations that hurt the ability of small businesses to create jobs:
These regulations often claim lofty goals or aspirations but are ungrounded in
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Gerald McSwiggan, Senior Manager of the Business Civic Leadership Center's Disaster Assistance and Recovery Program, appeared on CNBC this morning to talk about how businesses can recover from Hurricane Irene.
Kitty Taylor at the BCLC Blog links to many resources to help businesses get back to
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Here is some good news for improving America's energy security. Today, the State Department released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Matt Koch, vice president of The Institute for 21st Century Energy, called it an "important step in the approval process
Thursday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), for the first time in the agency's history, issued a rule requiring businesses to post notices explaining employees' rights to unionize.
OpenMarket.org's Ivan Osorio explains:
While the posting of a notice is hardly assured to send a flood
It looks like the SEC is suffering from a case of mission creep by going beyond regulating financial securities and sticking its nose in environmental regulation.
Despite missing deadlines and struggling to implement over 100 rules mandated under Dodd-Frank, the SEC has decided to create a new di
The President's review of unnecessary and outdated regulations is a "worthy effort," but Susan Dudley, director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, presents evidence that the administration is applying more pressure on the regulatory pedal. She writes,
Federal agenci
Daniel Griswold at the Cato Institute finds the U.S. is on track to double exports by 2014 and posted this chart:
This is good news, but it’s also the easy part. U.S. exports collapsed in the 2008-2009 financial crisis, so the performance of the past 18 months looks especially good against that
I'm trying to decide how seriously I should take the New York Times editorial page. I'm mean, they pay a guy who thinks it would be good economic policy to fake an alien invasion.
Today, the editorial board comes out against the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring Canadian oil into the United
While attending the launch of Our Time’s Buy Young initiative at the Chamber last month, Aaron Harris, CEO and co-founder of Tutorspree, talked about his business' effort to connect high-quality tutors with parents.
[Via the Campaign for Free Enterprise]
Today, the Labor Department broke out July's job numbers by state further illustrating how weak our economy is.
As the Brookings Institution puts it, the economy is suffering from a jobs gap, which is the difference between the number of jobs the economy is currently creating and the number neede
Next month, President Obama will give a speech laying out his plan to get more Americans back to work. It has been reported that he'll mention "a broad package of tax cuts, construction work and help for the millions of Americans who have been unemployed for months." I hope he includes expanding
What's holding back businesses from investing, hiring workers, and growing the economy? Dallas Fed president and CEO Richard Fisher lays it on an environment of uncertainty [emphasis mine]:
Those with the capacity to hire American workers―small businesses as well as large, publicly traded or p
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Earlier this week, the Institute for 21st Century Energy's Partnership to Fuel America visited Montana and South Dakota to talk about the benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline:
“The benefits to our economy are far-reaching and will have a positive impact on our hospitality, retail services an
Energy is the topic of this month's cover story for Free Enterprise magazine. Offshore, onshore, it's all covered. Here's a taste:
It’s a renaissance built on technological advances in energy exploration and extraction, continued advances in renewable energy and nuclear power, and an abundance
On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued its 8 millionth patent--"a visual prosthesis apparatus that enhances visual perception for people who have gone blind due to outer retinal degeneration."
The ideas that have been protected through the patent system have built industrie
Yesterday, in its letter to letter the debt "supercommittee," the Chamber strongly urged its members to overhaul the tax and code and reform entitlements. Today, let’s drill down on comprehensive tax reform.
National Chamber Foundation scholar, Nick Schulz offers why tax reform is important:
Paul Krugman: NY Times pundit, Nobel Prize-winning economist, and now sci-fi visionary. You know you've run out of ideas when you think faking an alien invasion could be a way to boost the economy.
Yes, Paul Krugman did indeed say this in a conversation with economist Kenneth Rogoff and CNN's Far
What's holding back businesses from creating jobs? CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder lists regulatory uncertainty (from EPA, NLRB, the health care law) and the threat of higher taxes.
[via Marathon Pundit]
Wow, Investors Business Daily lays into Big Labor for their opposition to the pending free trade agreement with Colombia, calling it the equivalent of "outsourcing" American jobs:
Big Labor union bosses loudly opposed the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, using their political muscle to keep
Oh Canada! I'm jealous of our northern neighbors. Today, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Canada and Colombia went into effect. Canadian workers and businesses get to reap the benefits of lower duties and expanded trade, while Americans wait for Washington to act on the pending FTAs with Col
So the mountain of bad regulations that are punishing small businesses is only growing higher. While last month our members said that small businesses – the engines of economic growth and job creation – are being held back by unnecessary regulations, today, Dan Danner, president and CEO of the Na
David Schottenstein, owner of Astor & Black Custom Clothiers, talked about how government "hinders our ability to be capitalists and to really go out there to be competitive on a global level" by "tying up business with messy, unnecessary taxes and legislation."
David took part at an Our Time e
Last week, President Obama talked about the progress made to find jobs for unemployed veterans. The Chamber's Hiring Our Heroes initiative is proud to help. As Kevin Schmiegel wrote, "The aim of our 100 hiring fair effort is to create a movement" to find "jobs for the one million unemployed vete
Free Enterprise recently sat down with Tom Ridge, the first Homeland Security Secretary, to talk about cybersecurity, regulations, energy security, and the role of the private sector in homeland security. Here's a taste:
As I’ve said time and again, Homeland Security is a federal department,
With Canada's oil sands, it isn't a question of if it'll be developed but where the oil will flow–something Radiohead doesn't get. Will it go south to the United States and power our economic growth, or will it go west to the Pacific Coast and across the ocean to China? The Keystone XL project wil
Sitting on Congress' big to-do list are the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. While American businesses, workers, and farmers wait, economic growth opportunities are lost. Today, in Politico, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) writes about the benefits we'll see when
National Review's Jim Geraghty noticed two coal projects in Wyoming and West Virginia that got scrapped in July. He suggests it's due to EPA's new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. I think Geraghty is on to something, but he should look more broadly. The cause may be the glut of several major EPA ru
U.S. Chamber of Commerce senior vice president and chief economist Dr. Marty Regalia appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning to talk about what the private sector can do to boost economic growth and create jobs.
If you missed it, check out Marty's post this morning, "Jobs and Growt
No, this wasn't planned, but the timing of this Wall Street Journal op-ed by Gov. Jeb Bush and Kevin Warsh is great. It matches well with Marty Regalia's post earlier on the link between economic growth and job growth and his discussion this morning on C-SPAN.
Bush and Ward want Washington to mov
The Kaufman Foundation's latest survey of economics bloggers finds most of them to be pessimistic about the economy with "95 percent who believe overall conditions are mixed, facing recession, or in recession." The most common word they used to describe the economy was "uncertain."
And they
A lot has been said here about job-crushing regulations, but when the unemployment rate has been hovering around 9% for months, the message has to be stated again and again until Washington listens and acts.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Ian Murray lays out how regulations are keeping bu
Today, the market is releasing a lot of built-up pessimism. The dip in the unemployment rate in July is nothing to cheer about since tens of thousands left the job market, too discouraged to continue looking for a job. On Friday, Standard and Poor's lowered the federal government's credit rating.
Sisters, Dani and Jodie Snyder, sisters and founders of Dannijo Jewelry, talked to the Chamber about their start-up story.
Dani and Jodie took part at an Our Time event, hosted by hosted by the Chamber last month, where the Buy Young initiative supporting entrepreneurs under 30 was launched. Our
With serious talk of a double-dip recession, we shouldn't weigh the economy down with new regulations from Washington. Patrick Hynes at Big Government lists some of the new job-crushing rules on the way from EPA, the National Labor Relations Board, and other agencies.
Over the weekend, former Wh
The AP asks small business owners why they’re not hiring and finds (gasp!) that the answer is uncertainty caused by out-of-control regulatory agencies--"regulatory totalitarianism"--and taxes.
As a small business owner, Mike Callihan, owner of Document Destruction, spends the "lion's share of his time" dealing with regulations and filling out tax forms. All he asks is, "How about a little bit less?"
Read about Mike's story of how he shifted from business forms to document disposal
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One goal of an effective energy policy is increased energy security, but how do we measure it? The Index of Energy Security Risk developed by the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, does that. The Index, now in its second year, shows America faces higher energy security risks.
Highl
I'm glad Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reminded his fellow senators that regulatory red tape is preventing job creation:
In a memo Barasso handed out to the lawmakers, he claimed that the administration in July only has put in $9.5 billion in new regulatory costs by proposing 229 new rules and fin
EPA is not satisfied with imposing costly, job-killing regulations at the federal level. Now, it wants to take over North Dakota’s federally authorized regional haze program because it doesn't think the state's rules will be tough enough to regulate two power plants. This is the second time EPA h
If we're heading for a double-dip recession, as some economists predict, let's increase domestic energy production to help us avoid one.
As economist Mark Perry illustrates, energy development creates an economic ripple effect that creates jobs in industries other than just energy. In Youngstown
Environmentalists and regulators go after energy companies large and small, stopping them from producing more domestic energy and creating jobs.
Check out Shell Oil President, Marvin Odum's speech at the Chamber.
Not everyone on Capitol Hill today was talking about the debt ceiling legislation. Small business owner Dan Withrow, president of CSS Distribution Group, was there to talk about health care. Testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Withrow said that t
A quick follow-up to Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue's post today on the need to pass the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama.
According to Frank Vargo at Shopfloor, the delay in passing the FTAs have cost American workers "nearly $12 billion more in
Healthy economic growth will do much to solve many of the problems facing us today. Economic growth means jobs for the unemployed and more revenue for debt-laden governments. Pennsylvania gives us a case study for harnessing energy development for economic growth.
Last week, Investors Business Da
Ed Rensi, former McDonald's CEO, could have relaxed in retirement, but instead he co-founded the Tom & Eddie's burger chain. At last month's Our Time event at the Chamber, he talked about how regulations are the biggest challenge for entrepreneurs and encouraged youth to "own the future" by starti
The Heritage Foundation follows up their mid-year report on federal regulations with a video showing how the regulatory system continues burdening the economy.
The business community continues pushing back on EPA's attempt to rush through new ozone standards. Today, the American Petroleum Institute (API) released a study showing the costs of the new standards would outweigh the benefits.
On a conference call today, API Scientific and Regulatory Affairs
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Our sputtering economy has given the public a double whammy: high unemployment and high energy prices. Shell Oil Company President Marvin Odum, speaking at a CEO Leadership Series luncheon today put on by the National Chamber Foundation and the Institute for 21st Century Energy, said that increa
Potholes, crumbling bridges, and worn-out transportation systems will cost the country hundreds of thousands of jobs and trillions of dollars in economic growth according to an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) report on the need to repair America's roads, bridges, and infrastructure.
A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' report forecasts that health care costs will nearly double by 2020 despite the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) becoming law.
There’s another major consequence of PPACA: it kills jobs.
Brian Vaughn, owner and president of the Geor
American industries are on the hunt to find talent with backgrounds in math, science, and engineering. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and John Cornyn (R-TX) held a hearing yesterday on reforming our immigration laws to help more high-skilled immigrants fill that void and improve American economic comp
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would force the administration to give a yea or nay by November 1 to the Keystone XL pipeline project that would deliver Canadian oil to the U.S.
The administration wants to wait until the end of year to make a decision, but Mark Green at
The Chamber joined a multi-industry coalition in sending a letter to all members of the House of Representatives urging passage of Speaker Boehner's debt ceiling legislation.
UPDATE: 115 business associations have now signed onto the letter.
Appearing at Politico's Jobs of the Future panel, yesterday with Vice President Joe Biden’s former economic advisor Jared Bernstein, Glenn Hubbard, chairman of the Council for Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush, analyzed the current state of the economy and argued that unemployment
We've been writing a lot about how uncertainty created by government [here, here, and here] has stopped businesses from taking risks on expanding and hiring workers. It's been a lead weight on them and a barrier to economic growth.
The Washington Post talked to business leaders about their frustr
As the son of a small businessman, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp knows firsthand about the need for Washington to improve America’s competitiveness and address the rising levels of uncertainty facing the private sector. Rep. Dave Camp, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Com
Today on Capitol Hill, members of the Chamber-led Latin America Trade Coalition and U.S.-Korea FTA Business Coalition visited House members' offices--including Reps. Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Duncan Hunter (R-CA)--and urged them to pass the pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia,
The EPA postponed their release of new ozone regulations. Bill Kovacs, the Chamber's senior vice president of Environment, Technology, and Regulatory Affairs hopes "that today’s decision by the EPA is a sign that the administration recognizes the severe economic consequences that would undoubtedly
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The economy isn't growing fast enough to create enough jobs for the millions of unemployed. To boost long-term economic growth, we need to beef up America's human capital—education and training. Nobel-prize winning economist Gary Becker writes, "large increases in education and training have accom
by Sean Hackbarth
As expected, yesterday House Republicans rolled out a two-stage deficit reduction plan that would raise the debt level immediately by about $1 trillion in exchange for $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, and tie a second $1.6 trillion increase early next year to the ability of a new b
On the Senate floor today, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell urged for progress in passing the pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama:
We’ve got a lot of other urgent business to take care of around here. So I don’t expect to finish any of this before August. Stil
Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave job creators and investors a big win by tossing out a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule that would have enabled special interest groups to interfere in corporate board elections.
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Today, the House Committee on Education and Workforce passed the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act that would stop the out-of-control National Labor Relations Board from dictating to businesses where they can and can't locate their jobs as the board is doing in the Boeing 787 Dreaml
One year ago, Washington passed the Dodd-Frank Act in an attempt to fix the problems with our financial regulatory system that played a role in the financial crisis.
When the President signed the bill he said it would provide "certainty to everyone from bankers to farmers to business owners to
A white paper published today by John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and David W. Marston, a lawyer and former U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, makes a compelling historical and legal case against the administration’s proposed executive order making disclosure of political giving history a condition to being awarded a federal contract.
Check out some pictures from the Chamber's conference, Infrastructure: What We Want, What We Need, headlined by retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen. The Chamber released the updated Transportation Performance Index at the conference.
At The Atlantic, Peter Wallison nails it on the head for why the economy is lagging. It's uncertainty in the business community caused by bad government policies:
In my view, the problem is that Congress has adopted policies--in the form of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act
After one year, Dodd-Frank has a ways to go to improve our financial regulatory structure.
The law's intention was to streamline and modernize our financial regulatory system, but Dodd-Frank hasn't delivered on that promise. Instead, as President and CEO of the Chamber's Center for Capital Mark
With ozone regulations, we need a common-sense balance between improving air quality and allowing businesses to create jobs. The ozone standard set in 2008 found that balance, but EPA is rushing through a new standard now instead of going through the normal five-year process prescribed by law.
To
Two op-eds came out today criticizing the National Labor Relations Board's opposition to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner airplane production line in South Carolina.
In a column appearing in The Daily Caller, Philip Miscimarra, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, reminds
The President today nominated Richard Cordray (on the left) to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). ABC News reports the former Ohio attorney general happens to be a former five-time Jeopardy! champion. That piece of trivia inspires me to do my best Alex Trebek impersonation [imagi
Last week, I posted Rep. Dave Camp's answers to questions about the pending Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) he received from Facebook. Another member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) answered some as well, and said the FTAs should be passed to "level the playing field fo
Rep. Dave Camp, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee answered a few questions from Facebook users about the how the pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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When we saw how badly a tornado devastated Joplin, MO in May, we knew Americans would come together to help the community rebuild. The Chamber's Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) was one of many organizations who lent a hand.
Gerald McSwiggan, head of BCLC's Disaster Assistance and Recovery
In case you missed Monday's Jobs Summit at the Chamber here's a “best of.” Our President and CEO Tom Donohue joined GE CEO Jeffery Immelt to sound the alarm about the need for the government to remove unnecessary regulatory barriers and uncertainties facing businesses.
The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel tweeted that two economic forcasters have lowered their second quarter U.S. GDP expectations. That's not a good sign for the job market.
Under these economic conditions, it's no surprise that job creation ideas are popping up all over the place. Senator Rob
What do young, hip, and fast-growing businesses such as Living Social, Gilt Groupe, WordPress, CollegeHumor have in common? They were all started by entrepreneurs under the age of 30.
This morning at the Chamber, OUR TIME, a 300,000-member national non-profit organization founded to stand up f
Today in a keynote address at the Chamber's health care event, Controlling Costs: The Price of Good Health, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor declared the health care law to be "the wrong policy" that is "built on wrong assumptions, and [is] fundamentally flawed." Cantor wants to repeal the law
The Chamber was honored that Their Royal Highnesses Prince William and Princess Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, visited the Hiring Our Heroes - Los Angeles job fair on Sunday.
If you missed any of the coverage, here are some reports:
Military.com:
The event received worldwide
The overall theme at the Chamber’s second annual Jobs Summit this afternoon was the need to remove barriers that are causing uncertainty and preventing the economy from growing and creating more jobs.
Bill Miller, Chamber senior vice president of Political Affairs and Federation Relations, re
Friday's jobs numbers reminded us that too many Americans are unemployed and reinforces the need for our leaders in Washington to implement pro-growth policies that will create more jobs.
Today at the Chamber's second annual Jobs Summit, business leaders and policy makers will discuss how the pri
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With the release of the June jobs report, Chief Economist, Marty Regalia called the numbers "abysmal" and urged Washington to "sweep away the obvious impediments to growth and job creation."
On Wednesday, the Chamber "crashed" the President's Twitter town hall by engaging t
As you might have seen earlier today, the June jobs numbers weren't good. Too many people who want to work can't find a job. But that hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm and optimism of entrepreneurs like Arel Moody of the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. He told the Voices for Jobs Listening Tour that b
Bill Miller, Chamber senior vice president of Political Affairs and Federation Relations, appeared on Fox Business to preview the Chamber's second annual Jobs Summit on Monday, July 11.
Previewing the second quarterly Small Business Outlook Survey to be released at the summit (check out the first
Today, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, held a hearing on the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) attempt to shorten the period for union elections. Labor lawyer, Michael Lotito, told the committee the board's rule would shut "the door on employers providing critical informa
President Obama was silent on regulatory reform during his Twitter town hall meeting yesterday, but former U.S. Senator and Indiana Governor Evan Bayh (D) and former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card had much to say about this critical issue on Fox & Friends this morning.
Bayh said, "When you
The Washington Post published this letter to the editor from Bruce Josten, the Chamber's Executive Vice President for Government Affairs, in response to Cass Sunstein's recent op-ed.
In his July 1 Washington Forum commentary, “A smarter approach to red tape,” Cass Sunstein’s defense of the l
Owner and candymaker, Beth Tully of Cocoa Dolce in Wichita, KS, told the Voices for Jobs Listening Tour that she worries about the complex tax code.
The tax code is "endless and eats the tiny, little bit of profit that we might enjoy in a year," said Tully. "The more complex the tax code, the m
Before President Obama's Twitter town hall, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tweeted a question about recent actions of the National Labor Relations Board:
Why is your administration supporting the NLRB's job killing policies in South Carolina?
The NLRB claims Boeing's new production li
Where is the economy headed? Is a sustained upturn in sight? Will more people find jobs?
Tony Hill of Edwards & Hill Office Furniture in Columbia, MD, is optimistic and sees the economy on "a slow recovery."
Hill shared his thoughts about the economy as part of the Voices for Jobs Listening
The debate over regulatory reform continues. Last week, President Obama and his administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Cass Sunstein, made the administration's case. Today, in the Washington Times, policy experts and political leaders weigh in.
Has the Obama
The Campaign for Free Enterprise recently heard from Daryl Braham and Tyrone Leslie of Heritage Homes in Fargo, ND, about the burdens of over-regulation. Braham called regulation, "[O]ne of the biggest challenges facing small businesses today," and Leslie said the EPA and OSHA are "putting a stran
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It was a busy week at the Chamber with events on energy and helping unemployed veterans and their spouses find jobs. We also did a lot of work on the pending Free Trade Agreements and tax policy. Read all about it below the fold.
As Congress prepares to debate the three tr
Bill Kovacs, senior vice president for Environment, Technology and Regulatory Affairs, appeared on Fox Business to discuss EPA regulations and Project No Project --a Chamber study that reveals the adverse economic impact of 351 stalled energy projects, many of them green projects. The interview is
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Big energy news was broken at today's press conference at the Chamber. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (via teleconference) and Alaska Commissioner of Natural Resources Dan Sullivan announced the state would allow drilling off a strip of state-owned land, expanding energy production:
It would allow t
As part of the preview of their nationwide tour to educate Americans on the need to restore balance, restraint, and common sense to the regulatory process, former Indiana Governor and Senator Evan Bayh and former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card gave an exclusive interview to Free Enterprise M
I see Roll Call noticed work the Chamber is doing to get Washington to past the three pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama.
The case of Korea is particularly pressing because on July 1, the European Union-Korea trade agreement goes into effect leaving U.S. companie
Today, as part of its Hiring Our Heroes initiative, the Chamber welcomed Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden and co-chair of the White House’s Joining Forces initiative, along with current and former service members and spouses, and business and government leaders to launch the Milita
Bruce Josten, the Chamber’s executive vice president for Government Affairs, appeared on Fox Business today to talk about regulatory uncertainty and the impact it is having on job creation. The interview was part of Fox’s “Theme Week,” which looks at the impact of government programs on business.
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If you're not in Washington, DC, this morning you can watch Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, current and former service members and spouses, and business and government leaders, at our Hiring Our Heroes event. Our distinguished guests will be joining us to launch
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Tomorrow, the Chamber is pleased to have Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, join an audience of current and former service members and spouses, together with business and government leaders, for our Hiring Our Heroes event to launch the Military Spouse Employment
The clock is ticking.
On July 1, the European Union-Korea Free Trade Agreement will take effect, and the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement will do so six weeks later. These agreements will put American workers and farmers at a competitive disadvantage. Washington continuing to delay approving
The House Ways and Means Committee wants your questions about the pending Free Trade Agreements with Panama, South Korea, and Colombia.
Go to the committee's Facebook page to leave a question.
Reps. Dave Camp (R-MI), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Charles Boustany (R-LA) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) will answe
The President's decision last week to release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has people still scratching their heads. The Detroit News writes in an editorial:
What Obama hopes to accomplish by releasing 30 million barrels of oil into an international marketplace
Randy Johnson, U.S. Chamber senior vice president of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits, appeared in a segment on Fox News' Special Report regarding the National Labor Relations Board's proposal to shorten the period for union elections. The Boston Herald editorial board calls the idea a wa
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On Monday, the Chamber hosted the Governors Summit attended by a bipartisan group of governors and local business leaders. President and CEO Tom Donohue spoke about the important role the private sector plays in creating jobs. "This we know for certain: A robust economic reco
Who'll stop the REINS... REINS Act that is?
Definitely not the Chamber, which supports the bill that would make Congress and regulatory agencies more accountable by requiring all new regulations that have an annual economic impact of $100 million or more to have an up-or-down vote from Congress a
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Hiring Our Heroes - Manhattan wrapped up. Despite a rainy afternoon, more than 1,500 veterans connected with over 100 employers looking to hire talented vets.
Earlier today, Kevin Schmiegel, Vice President of the U.S. Chamber's Veterans Employment Program, appeared on Fox Busin
by Sean Hackbarth
Hiring Our Heroes - Manhattan has blown away our expectations. Organizers thought 1,000 veterans and their spouses would attend the job fair on The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum, but reports on the ground have participation at over 1,500.
Media coverage includes
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The administration announced it will release 30 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an attempt to lower oil prices. The Chamber thinks this is bad energy policy.
Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber’s Energy Institute, said this action isn't the ans
by Sean Hackbarth
Today is Hiring our Heroes - Manhattan, the Chamber's biggest hiring fair to date.
The Chamber's Kevin Schmiegel, Vice President of the U.S. Chamber's Veterans Employment Program, continues making the rounds on television and radio, letting the public know about this event to h
by Sean Hackbarth
Former Sen. Evan Bayh and former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card previewed the launch of their bipartisan, nationwide Regulatory Road Show to educate Americans on the need to restore balance, restraint, and common sense to the regulatory process.
Evan Bayh said, "the eco
by Sean Hackbarth
Tomorrow, the U.S. and Manhattan Chambers of Commerce will be co-hosting Hiring Our Heroes - Manhattan at a stunning location: alongside The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum.
Employers attending the job fair represent all industries and want to talk with interested veterans
Testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday, John Bryson, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Commerce secretary, spoke of the need to improve the regulatory environment:
I‘m committed to helping simplify regulations that are difficult to understand, el
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On Monday, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank dropped by the Chamber's Governors Summit. Despite listening to how governors like Wisconsin's Scott Walker and Colorado's John Hickenlooper were helping businesses grow jobs, Milbank came away dejected and blamed business for no
If you missed it, watch yesterday's Governors Summit.
Below the fold is some media coverage of the summit where the Chamber's second Enterprising States study was released.
Fox Business:
Executive Vice President, National Chamber Foundation, Margaret Spellings on investing in education t
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At the Chamber's Governors Summit, President and CEO Tom Donohue spoke to a bipartisan group of governors and local business leaders on the critical role of the free enterprise system in creating jobs and the role of state governments in creating an environment more friendly to
Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue and Vice President for International Affairs John Murphy held a press conference today to unveil the website www.TradeSupportsJobs.com. It's packed with data and details on U.S. exports and the jobs they support.
This is part of the Chamber's effort to win
The United States has a history of creative inventors: Thomas Edison (light bulb); Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone), and Mary Anderson (the windshield wiper blade) are just a few. Encouraging innovation is one way America will get its economy moving and get more people working.
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It's great to be a part of the Chamber team. I hope to get the Chamber more engaged in policy conversations in the blogosphere. Two of those conversations revolve around job creation and energy production.
These two issues are on the minds of Americans. many of whom are unemployed or fear their j
