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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Without updates to the nation's outdated permitting laws, critical projects could sit idle for years—time the country does not have to waste.
U.S. Chamber statement on the introduction of the "Building American Energy Security Act of 2023."
The Chamber's 'Permit America to Build' initiative brought together influential voices in policy and business to elevate the critical need to reforming America's outdated permitting process.
This Key Vote Alert! letter was sent to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting the House's vote to override the President's veto of H.J.Res.27, "Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to 'Revised Definition of Waters of the United States.'"
The United States has an impressive safety record regarding aviation and air travel due to the FAA as the single regulator. This letter seeks to persuade Congress to keep the FAA as the single regulator to maintain the safety of US airspace. The regulatory authority of the FAA is important as Reauthorization is being discussed.
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.
