Infrastructure
America’s prosperity, global competitiveness, and quality of life depend on modern infrastructure. We need a durable strategy to modernize roads, bridges, transit, rail, water, energy, and modern access to broadband. Addressing these critical needs without raising taxes on business will create millions of jobs and make our communities safer.
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Permit America to Build
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To meet our growing challenges—like updating crumbling roads and bridges, addressing water quality, expanding broadband access, combatting climate change, and strengthening our energy security—the permitting process simply must be improved.
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For nearly 25 years, the U.S. Chamber has advocated for investment in our crumbling infrastructure system. We have brought together business and labor, Democrats and Republicans, and companies of every industry to move forward this urgent and overdue national priority. We will continue to work with partners in business and government to make the investment, find the workers, and get projects moving. There may be no better way to secure our nation’s long-term competitiveness.
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This joint letter was sent in conjunction with the National League of Cities (NLC) to Senators Richard Burr, Cory Gardner, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Kyrsten Sinema, as well as the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, supporting the "Moving and Fostering Innovation to Revolutionize Smarter Transportation (FIRST) Act."
The USG + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (CCI) is a quarterly economic index designed to gauge the outlook for, and resulting confidence in, the commercial construction industry.
Results from the Q2 2019 USG Corporation + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (Index) indicate that more than half of contractors are highly confident that the market will provide sufficient new business opportunities in the next 12 months.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce along with a coalition of over 40 national business and labor groups today sent a letter to President Trump and Congressional leaders urging them to resume action on infrastructure legislation this year.
This letter was sent to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, as well as Sen. Kevin Cramer, supporting S. 1211, the "Addressing Underdeveloped and Tribally Operated Streets (AUTOS) Act."
Business and labor groups have come together and proposed a funding solution: raising the federal gas tax. Democrats and Republicans in blue, red, and purple states across the country have already taken this action, increasing their state gas taxes to finance their share of much-needed infrastructure improvement.
This letter was sent to the House Committee on Financial Services on H.R. 3167, the "National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019.”
75,000 jobs were created in May 2019. The unemployment rate is 3.6%.
Donahue, a business leader in Louisiana, served previously as chairman from 2005-2006.
This letter was sent to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, supporting the nomination of Stephen Dickson for Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
