Strategic Advocacy
The Strategic Advocacy division is comprised of several major policy divisions within the Chamber including theCyber, Space, and National Security Division; Economic Policy Division; Employment Policy Division; and Small Business Policy Division. Environmental Affairs and Sustainability, Health Policy, and Transportation and Infrastructure Policy are also under the umbrella of the Policy Group.
The division works closely with the Chamber's Congressional and Public Affairs and Political Affairs and Federation Relations divisions.
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TO: Ms. Sheila CanavanMail Code 7405MU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of Pollution Prevention and ToxicsWilliam Jefferson Clinton Building1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20460
March 15, 2017 Submitted via e-mail to Larry Good: good.larry@dol.govLarry GoodExecutive Secretary, ERISA Advisory CouncilFrances Perkins BuildingU.S. Department of Labor200 Constitution Avenue, NWSuite N-5623Washington, DC 20210 Re: Topics for ERISA Advisory Council
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pleased to share this report. The Chamber and its members have long been committed to aligning trade, regulatory and competition policy in support of open and competitive markets. In recent years, however, the Chamber has grown concerned with disparate approaches to antitrust enforcement around the world and increasingly misguided uses of antitrust as a means to achieve industrial policy outcomes.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce welcomes a report issued today by an independent group of experts it commissioned to consider U.S. responses to the inappropriate use of antitrust enforcement actions worldwide to achieve industrial policy outcomes. In preparing the report, the group drew upon its members’ decades of experience in competition, trade, and economic policy in deliberations independent of the Chamber.
After eight years in office, President Obama left the nation a legacy of debt and deficits.
Organized labor is in a difficult position in the wake of the 2016 elections, to put it mildly.
VIA ELECTRONIC FILING TO: Dr. Jeffery MorrisActing Director, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (7407M)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20460-0001 RE: TSCA Inventory Notification (Active-Inactive) Requirements (82 Fed. Reg. 4,255) (January 13, 2017); Docket Nos. EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0426; FRL-9956-28; RIN: 2070-AK24 Dr. Morris:
Since June 2011, Piedmont Gardens, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have been at odds about how to handle workplace investigations. More specifically, their dispute centers on whether employers must turn over to a union confidential statements made by employees during the course of the investigation. After the case started nearly six years ago, a federal appeals court is now considering the issue.
Dear Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Johnson: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports the “Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment (HONEST) Act of 2017” and the “EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2017.” These bills would improve the transparency and reliability of scientific and technical information that Federal agencies rely heavily upon to support new regulatory actions.