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Women led eight of Washington’s 50 most politically active trade lobby groups and earned about $600,000 less than their male counterparts, according to salary data compiled by Bloomberg.
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A deal between business and labor leaders on allocating visas to low-skilled foreign workers improves the chances that the Senate will pass an immigration bill, said three members of the bipartisan group of senators who are negotiating an agreement.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C., is just across Lafayette Park from the White House. President Barack Obama , however, has only been there twice since he was elected.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission defeated a federal court challenge to a rule requiring mutual funds with commodities investments to register with the agency.
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The Obama administration has drafted an executive order that would require government contractors to disclose some of their political donations, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
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With the U.S. government on the verge of a historic default, the country’s largest business lobbying group took to the halls of Congress last week to press lawmakers to support the Panama Free-Trade Agreement.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s advertising is outpacing both political parties in close Senate races, adding volume to attack ads -- some of which have been questioned by fact-checkers -- being aired against Democrats.
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Voters in Ohio listening to the radio last week likely heard an ad accusing Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of joining President Barack Obama in waging a “war on coal.”
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White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley dismissed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s backing of a House Republican plan to raise the debt limit in two stages as a “political statement” by the nation’s biggest business lobby.
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U.S. House Republicans proposed a one-year, 20 percent tax cut for businesses with fewer than 500 employees, following through on a 2010 campaign pledge.
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