U.S. Chamber Builds Political Operations

Thinkprogress.org writes:

The LA Times reports today on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s growing “large-scale grass-roots political operation” that is being “funded by record-setting amounts of money raised from corporations and wealthy individuals.” In 2009, the Chamber spent $144 million on lobbying and grassroots organizing, “well beyond the spending of individual labor unions or the Democratic or Republican national committees.”

About the U.S. Chamber

U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a powerful business lobbying group in the United States, "used to be a trade association that advocated in a bipartisan manner for narrowly tailored policies to benefit its members. Since 1997 or so, it has become a fully functional part of the partisan Republican machine," with CEO and president Thomas J. Donohue "raising its budget to $150M a year from corporate chiefs satisfied with his ability to move policy through a Republican Congress," Matt Stoller wrote December 13, 2006, at MyDD. (Sourcewatch)

Backgrounders

• U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce
• About Tom Donohue — Chairman of the Board, US Chamber of Commerce
  

   Political Agendas

• U.S. Chamber of Commerce sets sights on Democrats ahead of midterm elections
• The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Assault on Justice (Huffington Post)

Related

• The Media-Lobbying Complex
• The Lliberal Media Myth

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