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U.S. Chamber's political spending - 2012 cycle

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Money In Politics

To see what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has disclosed spending in the 2012 elections, CLICK HERE.

To see what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent on lobbying in 2012, CLICK HERE.

*Data is courtesy of the Center for Responsive Politics

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Local Chambers That Have Denounced Or Withdrawn From The U.S. Chamber

Since 2009, nearly 60 local Chambers of Commerce have publicly denounced or canceled their membership to the U.S. More...

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FEATURED VIDEOS

U.S. Chamber Watch Interview on the Big Picture with Thom Hartmann - On Youtube

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Radio

U.S. Chamber Watch Radio Interview with "Uprising" on KPFK, Los Angeles, 3/1/11
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Score Cards

  1. 2010 Score Card: Who the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Really Represents

After a historically bad year for the Chamber last year, 2010 did nothing but further tarnish its credibility as the voice for American business.  The Chamber’s record this year shows that its agenda has been dictated by CEOs who write it the biggest checks, even when that places it at odds with the interests the small businesses that it claims make up 96% of its membership. On issue after issue in the first half of 2010, the Chamber clearly sided with big business and big CEOs. 

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Reports

U.S. Chamber's Agenda

Echo Chamber: How the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Top Corporate Funders Dictate the Agenda for the 112th Congress

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In the upcoming days, the Republican leadership will produce its legislative agenda for the 112th Congress, an agenda they’ve already started planning. It wasn’t hard for them to create this agenda: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which pledged to spend more than $75 million in anonymous corporate money to influence this fall’s elections, provided an agenda for them, driven by and for the sixteen companies that provide more than half of the U.S. Chamber’s contributions. More...

The U.S. Chamber’s Tax Repatriation Holiday: A Report by U.S. Chamber Watch

The U.S. Chamber’s Tax Repatriation Holiday
Windfall for the CEOs of U.S. Chamber Member Companies, Not Jobs For American Workers

A Report by U.S. Chamber Watch
April 2011

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Leading the Charge in Electing a Republican Congress by U.S. Chamber Watch, November 2010

"The story of the 2010 midterm elections is the overwhelming effect of coordinated outside money on the electoral process. The leader in outside spenders – and the primary vehicle through which corporations laundered their political spending – was the United States Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. Chamber occupied a central strategic role in the Republican victories on election night, helping to organize the initial activity of the pro-Republican outside groups in the election, and promising to spend $75 million – of which only about $32 million was reported  – executing the agreed-upon plan."  
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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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