"Bruce Josten and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists need to talk to Chamber members from coastal areas instead of believing everything the insurance industry tells them."
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What They're Saying About the Chamber
Gulf Coast Politicians
– Rep. Gene Taylor (D, MS-4) on the Chamber's opposition to adding wind insurance to the National Flood Insurance Program, Sun Herald, 08/15/2010
Gulf Coast Businesspersons
"It is troubling that an organization such as the U.S. Chamber fails to recognize that in a global economy a national disaster in one region of the country inflicts serious, lasting economic hardship on all other regions. One would think the oil spill would have been a sufficient event to alter the Chamber's understanding on the need for a national approach to dealing with disasters."
– Gulf Coast Businessman Jerry St. Pé, Sun Herald, 08/14/2010
Newspaper Columnists
"Consider the efforts this month by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, once a center of moderate Republicanism that worked with both parties but now a sort of radicalized corporate Tea Party, spending $75 million this fall mostly to defeat Democrats."
– Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 07/25/2010
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS
"The Chamber has every right to oppose those policies with which its members disagree. But as a leading, respected institution, the Chamber also has an obligation to be honest – with you, its members, and with the American people."
– Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin, Address to the US Chamber, 03/24/2010
Drilling Down on the U.S. Chamber’s Weak Jobs Arguments
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