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The U.S. Chamber in the News - February 8

Posted by Jake Parent on February 08, 2013

Obama Advisers Meet With Leaders of Business Groups

President Barack Obama‘s top economic advisers are meeting with leaders from business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail Federation to enlist their support for the White House’s plans to overhaul the immigration system and to avert automatic spending cuts set to kick in next month. [Wall Street Journal]

Business and Labor Unite to Try to Alter Immigration Laws

After decades of friction over immigration, the nation’s labor unions and the leading business association, the Chamber of Commerce, have formed an unusual alliance that is pushing hard to revamp American immigration laws. These oft-feuding groups agree on the need to enact a way for the 11 million immigrants illegally in the United States to gain citizenship. And they are also nearing common ground on a critical issue — the number of guest workers allowed into the country — that has deeply divided business and labor for years and helped to sink President George W. Bush’s push for an immigration overhaul in 2007. [Washington Post]

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Nailed It.

Posted by Samantha James on May 29, 2012

Today, the New York Times reported on something the Chamber most surely wishes it hadn't: the Chamber's change-up in its political ad-buying strategy to avoid disclosing its donors. The Chamber clearly was hoping to bury this story when it quietly released it to BNA right before a holiday weekend.  More...

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Chamber Should Be Front and Center in Corporate Political Transparency Talks

Posted by Lauren Levenstein on September 30, 2011

Where is the talk about the U.S. Chamber’s lead role in opposing disclosure in the recent uptick of public interest groups and businesses who are advocating corporate political spending transparency and disclosure? This week, the Center for Economic Development (CED) held a luncheon where its leaders released three reports on political spending by corporations in a post-Citizens United world. More...

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The surprising answer from Google on its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

It can be hard to get a big corporation to go on record about anything – much less something controversial.

That’s why I was pleasantly surprised by the answer I got at Google’s annual shareholder meeting when I asked cofounder Larry Page why the company is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an organization that has publicly opposed many of Google’s positions and interests.

After receiving applause for my question, Google’s head lawyer David Drummond – who was helping Page to answer questions – responded that the company’s membership in the U.S. Chamber is something senior leadership debates a lot. He added that while there are some things that the U.S. Chamber is good for, there is a lot of stuff it does that Google doesn’t agree with.

He concluded by saying that, “while we are members for now, it’s something that we do review.”

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Google should disclose its political spending and leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

You can Google anything right?

Well, try going to the search engine and entering “Google’s political spending.”

You’ll get something like this:

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