“I'm honored to be back here at the Chamber. I'm proud to be with some of America's finest entrepreneurs, job creators, risk-takers…I thank you all for joining us today. I thank you for representing the true strength of America, which are those who are willing to volunteer in our communities to make the country a better place…"
Through the Let's Rebuild America initiative, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce advocates for the need to maintain, modernize, and expand America’s infrastructure. This initiative focuses on driving public awareness, expanding research efforts, and building strong political action toward three key goals:
• Getting the most bang for the buck out of each investment individually and all investments collectively,
• Removing and preventing obstacles to rebuilding America, and
• Increasing public and private investment levels.
FRIENDS of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is composed of Americans from every walk of life--people who want to make a difference and are committed to ensuring the strength of our economy, especially in these challenging times. Friends of the U.S. Chamber believes that American prosperity depends on lower taxes and less regulation, not more burdensome paperwork and bureaucracy. It believes in access to affordable health care, not a government mandated solution. It believes America's energy supply needs to be diverse and secure, not legislated by special interests. It believes in allowing employees the right to secret ballot elections, not suppressing workers' rights with a union leader power-grab to further regulate the workplace. And Friends of the U.S. Chamber believes in helping companies grow jobs, not threatening their existence with the risk of frivolous lawsuits.
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As the premier voice of business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched the Campaign for Free Enterprise to affirm America’s belief that the values of individual initiative, hard work, freedom of choice, and the free exchange of capital and ideas can lead America back to prosperity.
The campaign, one of the most important initiatives in the U.S. Chamber’s nearly 100-year history, is a comprehensive, multiyear campaign to support free enterprise through national advertising; grassroots advocacy; citizen, community, and youth engagement; and research and ideas leadership.
Small businesses account for three-quarters of all new jobs in this country and 96% of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s membership. Because of the U.S. Chamber's key role in ensuring our country’s growth and prosperity, it has launched the U.S. Chamber Small Business Nation.
U.S. Chamber Small Business Nation is a community founded on the open exchange of information and ideas, while creating the opportunity for small businesses to speak with a unified voice. Bringing together America’s small businesses – the engine of economic growth – will strengthen individual endeavors while amplifying the collective voice of business.
With over 1 million letters to Congress, the U.S. Chamber’s grassroots network fought to get Americans back to work, for health care reform that wouldn’t bankrupt America, and for regulations that will help the economy—not hurt it.
“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is building a large-scale grass-roots political operation that has begun to rival those of the major political parties….The chamber has signed up some 6 million individuals who are not chamber members and has begun asking them to help with lobbying and, soon, with get-out-the-vote efforts in the upcoming congressional campaigns.” Read the full article.
For information on how the new health care legislation will affect small businesses in America, visit the U.S. Chamber Small Business Nation’s Health Care key issue page.
U.S Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue delivered the State of American Business address to a full house in the Hall of Flags at U.S. Chamber Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
His speech focused on jobs recovery and strengthening America’s competitive position.
