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USCHAMBER.COM: Chamber Opposes Minimum Wage Increase

By US Chamber of Commerce PR

(Originally posted on Januray 10, 2007)

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The United States Chamber of Commerce expressed disappointment today with the U.S. House of Representatives for passing an increase in the federal minimum wage and encouraged the Senate to carefully consider its impact on small businesses.

USCHAMBER.COM: Chamber Applauds SCOTUS Ruling Limiting Class-Action Lawsuits

By US Chamber of Commerce PR

**This is a press release from the US Chamber's website, commending the SCOTUS for pushing class-action lawsuit plaintiffs out of state courts and forcing them into corporate-friendly federal courts. The SCOTUS has ruled 100% in the US Chamber's favor since the start of Obama's presidency.

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Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today praised a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that preserves a key provision of the landmark Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA).

BLOOMBERG: AHIP Provided More Than Half of US Chamber's 2009 Lobbying Expenses

By '> Drew Armstrong

(originlly published on Nov 17, 2010)

Health insurers last year gave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $86.2 million that was used to oppose the health-care overhaul law, according to tax records and people familiar with the donation.

BLOOMBERG: US Chamber Spent $33 Million on Losing 36 Congressional Races

By Jonathan Salant

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce went 14-36 in the 2012 congressional races where it ran political advertisements, rivaling the won-lost record of the 1962 New York Mets.

U.S. CHAMBER WATCH: 93% of U.S. Chamber 2010 Election Spending Went to Republicans

By U.S. Chamber Watch

In this report from U.S. Chamber Watch, most of $32 million spent in the 2010 congressional midterms went to Republicans, who ended up re-taking the House of Representatives and establishing a crushing gridlock that has lasted until the present day. The Chamber only endorsed one candidate for Senate, West Virginia's Joe Manchin, on whom it made no expenditures. Read the full report below:

PUBLIC CITIZEN: US Chamber Accused of Failing to Report Millions in Campaign Spending

By Angela Bradbery, Barbara Holzer, Rachel Lewis, Jake Parent

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its affiliated Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) failed to report millions in taxable spending from 2000 to 2004 intended to influence state-level attorney general and supreme court races and federal races around the country, according to a Public Citizen complaint filed today with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

NYT: Americans in non-swing states less likely to vote and millions of ballots are still being counted

By Nate Silver

Initial accounts of last Tuesday’s presidential election contemplated what seemed to be a significant decline in turnout from 2008. Those reports may have been premature, at least in part. Some states, particularly those where much balloting is conducted by mail, have yet to finish counting their returns. It is likely that there are several million votes left to be counted in California, for example. Nonetheless, it seems probable that we will see something of a split in the number of people who turned out to vote in 2012.

TRUTHOUT: Lack of transparency in exit polling makes it more difficult to know when an election is rigged

By '> Victoria Collier

 

Stealing your vote is easier than ever now that the media has decided it can't afford the exit polling that helped track irregular ballot counts in more than a third of the states. Here's why it's important, and what you can do.

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