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    Chamber of Commerce plans big push on immigration

    Chamber of Commerce plans big push on immigration

    Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY 1:12 p.m. EST January 8, 2014

    Group also ready to spend heavily to elect pro-business candidates in November.



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    STORY HIGHLIGHTS


    • U.S. Chamber of Commerce will spend against Tea Party candidates in primaries
    • The business group plans renewed effort to pass stalled immigration overhaul
    • Chamber president: Lawmakers who don't "see the light" on priorities will "feel some heat" in campaign


    WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pledged Wednesday to ramp up the group's lobbying on immigration legislation and to play a bigger role in electing pro-business candidates in November's midterm congressional elections.

    The nation's largest business-lobbying group "will pull out the stops" to encourage Congress to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, chamber president Tom Donohue said during his annual "State of American Business" speech.


    Donohue said the group is prepared to spend heavily to ensure lawmakers pass pro-business measures in an election year when it's often hard to enact any laws, much less controversial bills such as immigration.


    "We hope to turn that assumption on its ear by turning the upcoming elections into a motivator for change," Donohue said. "It's based on a simply theory: If you can't make them see the light, then as least make them feel some heat."


    Rob Engstrom, who oversees the chamber's political operations, would not disclose the group's budget but said the chamber planned to exceed what it spent on House and Senate races in 2012.


    The chamber's move challenges Tea Party-aligned Republicans who incensed business leaders after those lawmakers successfully pushed a partial federal government shutdown last October in effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.


    Donohue said the business group is looking at "half a dozen" House and Senate races involving primaries or open seats to aid candidates who agree with the chamber's positions on the economy, trade, immigration and other issues.


    He said he doesn't disagree with Tea Party principles, such as controlling federal spending. But, he said, "people who announce 'I'm going for the House or Senate, and my idea is to burn down the town' …we are not going to be interested in them."


    The Senate passed a comprehensive rewrite of immigration laws in June, but no measure has passed the GOP-controlled House, where some Republicans oppose the Senate deal allowing the nation's 12 million undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship.


    House Speaker John Boehner is expected to release a blueprint in the coming weeks that outlines the key principles of an immigration overhaul that the House could consider. Boehner also recently hired Rebecca Tallent, a former aide to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has long supported changes to immigration law — raising hopes among advocates that he is willing to move forward.


    Donohue said he's "encouraged" by recent developments in the House.


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    Made very clear in this article the Chamber of Commerce is no friend of the American worker, cheap labor, poor products, high profits are the goal. Greed can destroy capitalism.
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    Chamber of Commerce Declares 2014 the ‘Year of Immigration Reform’

    Chamber of Commerce Declares 2014 the ‘Year of Immigration Reform’
    Donohue: ‘We’re two-thirds of the way there’

    BY: Elizabeth Harrington
    January 8, 2014 2:15 pm

    Thomas Donohue, the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, declared 2014 the “year of immigration reform,” Wednesday, during his annual state of American business address.

    “We’re determined to make 2014 the year that immigration reform is finally enacted,” Donohue said. “The chamber will pull out all the stops—through grassroots lobbying, communications, politics and partnerships with our friends in the union, and faith-based organizations, and law enforcement groups, and others to get this job done.”

    Immigration reform was one of several items on the chamber’s agenda for 2014. Other reforms he endorsed included expanding domestic energy production, delaying or repealing the employer mandate under Obamacare, and comprehensive tax reform to lower rates and simplify the code.

    Donohue also warned that the entitlement crisis is the “most predictable crisis in American history.” By 2023 entitlement spending and interest on the debt will account for 76 percent of government outlays, he said, increasing federal spending to nearly $6 trillion per year.

    “It’s time for our leaders to act like leaders, to tell the American people the truth,” Donohue said, “and to craft a fair, sensible plan to reform and save these vital programs.”

    Donohue laid out a vision to “expand opportunity for all,” and argued immigration reform is vital to that aim.

    “Throughout history, immigrants have brought innovation, ideas, investments, and dynamism to American enterprise,” he said. “And in terms of demographics, we need immigration.”

    Critics of the Senate’s immigration bill have argued that adding millions of immigrants and guest workers will harm the lagging economy and reduce American wages. The “Gang of Eight” bill would add an estimated 30 million additional immigrants to the United States over the next decade at a time when the number of Americans not in the labor force has reached record highs.

    During a press conference following his address, Donohue said he is “encouraged” by what he hears coming out of the House of Representatives and believes they will pass immigration reform later this year.

    Last year the legislation stalled after it was passed in the Senate, as the House said it would take up a targeted, piecemeal approach focused on border security and a Republican version of the DREAM Act.

    “2013 we liked,” Donohue said. “We made a deal in the Senate, we did that with a cooperative basis with the AFL-CIO, and with lots of other people, then we started working in the House, where I believe we’ve received a very positive response—a different way of doing business—435 people, not just 100 of them.”

    “We brought in faith-based [groups] and folks from all sorts of social activities, community leaders, and we brought business people in who see opportunities to create jobs, and what we’re going to do is a lot more of the same,” he said. “And we’re going to do it back home, as well.”

    “My own view, I think Democrats and Republicans alike would like to go home and run for office with something they got done that’s significant,” Donohue added. “I believe we’re two-thirds of the way there.”

    “I’ve been encouraged by a lot of the noise and soundings out of the House, and I’m not discouraged when every now and then I wake up in the morning to see a story about some reason it’s not going to work,” he said. “Four hundred and thirty five people have to go home and run for office, and I think we’re going to get this done.”

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