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by Brad Peck

The Waxman-Markey bill remains a work in, well not exactly progress, which is why our latest letter to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives urges each of them to oppose H.R. 2454, the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009." From today's letter:

Robin from Dallas Tweets on our conference call today: "US Chamber threatened not 2 run truth aware ads on #Health Care Reform.

At a press event this morning Dr. Marty Regalia was asked if he agrees with Douglas Holtz-Eakin that a payroll tax holiday would have made a more effective stimulus, he answers in the clip below, then talks about tax policy and income inequality.

Here is a copy of a letter in which a Teamster pension manager writes (my emphasis throughout):

Canadian Court respects the private ballot.  Will the U.S. Congress?

In an op-ed in The New York Times today, Richard Posner calls the administration’s financial overhaul plan "premature, overambitious, obsessed with reorganization, [and] afflicted by Roosevelt envy." He says regulators failed to prevent the financial collapse not because they lacked adequate powers but because they lacked information, a culture of inquiry, and a contingency plan.

We have a site up addressing reducing the "barriers to the development of climate-friendly energy sources" bit in our letter to Congress today.  But here is one vision of the problem:

// Update: 25 June 2009 Letter to the House

Below are key points (and lots of them) from Bruce Josten's letter to the House today on the Waxman-Markey bill, the full letter is here.

Yesterday morning, the Chamber co-hosted a breakfast featuring Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, with the Business Council for International Understanding and the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce.  President Bachelet’s remarks

Paul Zannucci writes:

On Monday the U.S. Chamber submitted, via comments, a proposed compromise to the OMB as they are preparing the final rules on how to implement Buy American.  More from the FT:

The Politico Pulse reported this morning that:

As I posted earlier, today we petitioned the EPA for an "on the record" formal hearing, before a neutral party, to openly review the data the agency is using to justify its endangerment proposal. If this is the greatest issue of day*, we surely need overwhelming transparency on the science. So what do we have now? Bill Kovacs explains below -- our comments, the petition, and supporting documentation are here.

Over the last 6 years, the Labor Department took several important steps to improve the financial disclosure rules that apply to labor unions. The newest round of improvements was finalized in January and was set to be implemented early this year. However, one of the first acts of the new administration was to delay the effective date of the latest enhanced disclosure requirements and now the Labor Department has proposed repealing these revisions altogether.

As Dow Jones Newswires reports, today the U.S. Chamber will:

Christopher Guith talks below about the importance of nuclear power and how it must be part of our nation's energy plan.  Learn more at the Institute for 21st Century Energy.

A week ago, in Roll Call, Thomas Kochan and Arnold Zack made an argument for the compulsory interest arbitration provisions in the Employee Free Choice Act.  This week Ted Clark responds:

We get emails. In this one Susan writes: "What do you have to say now that Beijing has ordered 'Buy China'? Anything?"

First some background, courtesy of the FT last week:

BeyondChron's Randy Shaw on union internecine warfare in California, (h/t J. Justin Wilson):