U.S. Chamber Weekly Update

Action Items:

• Sign the Chamber’s Petition Urging Congress to Lift the Crude Oil Export Ban - The U.S. has become the largest oil and natural gas producer in the world, nearly doubling domestic production and creating surpluses that could be sold overseas.  But our nation is still the ONLY oil producing country that prohibits exporting crude oil.  Lifting the ban makes smart economic sense for America - creating 1.5 million supply chain jobs as well as adding $220 billion in annual GDP growth by 2018.  It's time for Congress to act and bring U.S. energy policy into the 21st century. Congressional leaders need to hear that it's time to lift the ban on crude oil exports.  Sign the petition TODAY!

 

Upcoming U.S. Chamber Events:   

• 2016 Winter Institute – January 3 – 7, 2016 – Register Here

 

Recent Postings to www.USChamber.com, www.FreeEnterprise.com and www.WorkforceFreedom.com:

 

TRANSPORTATION

• Holiday Checklist: Refuel Transportation Fund, Check. Revive Ex-Im Bank, Check. by J.D. HARRISON – Friday, December 4, 2015
• How the Highway Bill Will Help Make It Easier to Build Things in America by SEAN HACKBARTH – Friday, December 4, 2015

TRADE & INTERNATIONAL

• What COOL Will Cost You by REUBEN SMITH-VAUGHAN – Wednesday, December 9, 2015
• Congress Re-Leveling the Playing Field for American Exporters by J.D. HARRISON – Thursday, December 3, 2015

HEALTHCARE

• Senate Makes It Perfectly Clear It Hates (HATES) The Cadillac Tax by SEAN HACKBARTH – Monday, December 7, 2015
• 2014 Saw Fastest Health Care Spending Growth Ever Under Obama by SEAN HACKBARTH – Thursday, December 3, 2015
• HHS Plays Grinch by Rushing Through Obamacare Regulations by SEAN HACKBARTH –Wednesday, December 2, 2015

EDUCATION

• Education Bill Makes the Grade by THOMAS J. DONOHUE – Monday, December 7, 2015
• Congress Aces Another Test With Education Bill’s Passage by J.D. Harrison – Wednesday, December 9, 2015

REGULATIONS

• Houston, Dallas Meeting EPA’s Ozone Standard? Mission ‘Impossible,’ Rice Professor Says by SEAN HACKBARTH – Wednesday, December 9, 2015
• The Growing Burden of Federal Regulations by RONALD BIRD – Friday, December 4, 2015

FIDUCIARY RULE

• New Rules a Costly, Confusing Bureaucratic Maze for Most Investors by DAVID HIRSCHMANN – Monday, December 7, 2015
• Chorus of Small Business Owners Slamming Retirement Rule Grows Louder by J.D. HARRISON –Wednesday, December 2, 2015

TAX EXTENDERS

• His Small Business Builds Homes for Small Businesses. Congress Can Make it Easier. by J.D. HARRISON – Monday, December 7, 2015

ENTITLEMENT SPENDING

• Could Your Company Run For A Year On One Month’s Revenue? Neither Can Our Country by J.D. HARRISON – Wednesday, December 9, 2015

LABOR

• What Happened to the Black Friday Protests? by Sean P. Redmond – Friday, December 4, 2015
• Theater of the Absurd by Sean P. Redmond – Friday, December 4, 2015

CYBER

• Digital Due Process Legislation is Overdue by JORDAN CRENSHAW – Monday, December 7, 2015

FREE ENTERPRISE

• INSPIRED BY HER NATIVE MEXICO, FANY GERSON BUILDS A CULINARY EMPIRE by FREE ENTERPRISE STAFF – Wednesday, December 9, 2015
• HERE’S WHERE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE COMES FROM by FREE ENTERPRISE STAFF – Tuesday, December 8, 2015
• FROM TRAINER TO CROSSFIT OWNER: AN ENTREPRENEUR CHANGES HER CAREER PATH by NICOLETTE GHIMIRE – Monday, December 7, 2015
• THE STARTUP THAT’S MAKING A COMPLEX IMMIGRATION PROCESS SIMPLE by ERIN KLEM – Friday, December 4, 2015
• Becoming the Boss: With Great Cookies Comes Great Responsibility by AMANDA TRCKA – Thursday, December 3, 2015
• 4 COMPANIES THAT ARE DOING GOOD WITH #BIZGIVING by FREE ENTERPRISE STAFF – Thursday, December 3, 2015
• EIGHT COMPANIES MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE by FREE ENTERPRISE STAFF –Wednesday, December 2, 2015

 

Recent U.S. Chamber Press Releases: 

• Fifth U.S.-Mexico CEO Dialogue Advances Economic Relationship - Wednesday, December 9, 2015 
• U.S. Chamber Announces Ed Mortimer as New Executive Director for Transportation Infrastructure - Wednesday, December 9, 2015
• U.S. Chamber President: Education Bill Will Help Ensure Students are College and Career Ready - Tuesday, December 8, 2015
• U.S., Japan Business Councils Conclude 52nd U.S.-Japan Business Conference - Friday, December 4, 2015
• U.S., Israeli Business Community Celebrate FTA Anniversary, Provide Framework for Continued Economic Prosperity - Friday, December 4, 2015
• U.S. Chamber’s Donohue Applauds House Passage of Long-Term Funding for Highway Trust Fund, Urges Senate to Quickly Follow Suit - Thursday, December 3, 2015
• U.S. Chamber Applauds House Passage of Amendment to Lift Ban on Oil Exports - Wednesday, December 2, 2015