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GulfLive.com: FROM JACKSON CO. TO U.S. CHAMBER: You don't understand the issue

Op-Ed, 9/25/10

Excerpt from letter to the U.S. Chamber by Morris Strickland, chairman of the board of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and Carla G. Todd, its president and CEO.

“At the monthly meeting of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in Pascagoula, Miss., we agreed unanimously to send you a letter expressing our concern over your recent opposition to House Resolution 1264, the "Multiple Peril Insurance Act."… We regret that in doing your due diligence for your position on this bill, you did not call the Gulf region Chambers of Commerce that were at the center of Katrina… We implore the U.S. Chamber to take another look at the multiple-peril issue. Please don't be quick to seal the fate of thousands of citizens that live in the Southeast.”

Times Picayune: Sen. Mary Landrieu hailed at milestone in effort to help small businesses

By Jonathan Tilove, 9/14/10

The Times Picayune reported on the U.S. Chamber’s aggressive support for an amendment to the Small Business Jobs Act that would repeal provision 1099 reporting requirements on small businesses.  The amendment failed to pass but according to Tilove,“Bringing the 1099 grievance to bear on the small-business bill was seen by some Democrats as a Republican stalling tactic, and it may have succeeded in giving the Chamber reason, or cover, to back away from a bill that has come to take on a highly partisan edge in the run-up to the mid-term elections.”