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The unemployment rate and the nation’s increasingly precarious fiscal position – its enormous budget deficits and its ballooning debt – will be the dual points of emphasis in President Obama’s second State of the Union address on Tuesday. (more)

The Republican chairman of the House committee with jurisdiction over tax policy on Thursday added his voice to the growing chorus of conservatives who say they want to simplify the tax code. (more)

A top official at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Thursday that the nation’s largest business lobby would support eliminating most of the tax loopholes obtained by large corporations to move toward comprehensive tax reform that resulted in lower rates. (more)

As Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele recently put it, it is the best of times and the worst of times for Republicans and their ability to influence legislation in Congress. (more)

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce fought President Obama tooth-and-nail on his vast legislative push during the last two years, helped Republicans win back the House and put Speaker John Boehner between the president and any new law. (more)

Campus Progress, an online magazine produced by liberal think tank the Center For American Progress, has been out front in its reporting on the for-profit schools issue, publishing a series of stories alleging conflicts of interest and disclosure problems among Democratic consultants working, or allegedly working, on the issue. (more)

What a difference a year makes. In January 2010, we worried about the possibility of a double-dip recession. Today, the state of American business and our economy have improved. This is due to both the impressive resilience of our economy and the enactment of the tax relief package late last month. For these reasons, the U.S. Chamber projects that the economy will grow by 3.2% overall next year, picking up steam as the year progresses. (more)

President Obama’s effort to replicate President Bill Clinton’s presidency-saving first-term triangulation has begun, now that he has agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts for all brackets and has reached a free trade agreement with South Korea. (more)

The Senate today approved the Food Safety Modernization Act, a bill that expands the Food and Drug Administration’s ability to regulate the quality of food and expand the agency’s powers to inspect food production facilities. (more)

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is vowing to bring the immigration-related “DREAM Act” to the Senate floor and some Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm bells, highlighting that it would offer amnesty to an estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens. (more)

Moving to repair a deep rift with leading CEOs, President Barack Obama plans to speak at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event next month and the two sides are trying to work out details, White House and Chamber officials said Saturday. (more)

The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday offered a stinging critique of President Obama’s first two years in office in a major address to his board of directors. (more)

The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a loud and fiery challenge Wednesday to President Obama and the Washington bureaucracy, vowing to ramp up the organization’s fight against excessive regulation and “government harassment” of business’ ability to participate in the political system. (more)

Eager to push an agenda against government regulations it says are hurting American businesses, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is sending a brand new board game, “This Way to Jobs,” to every congressional office. (more)

As the Obama administration continues to work toward economic recovery, the Senate will be debating the Paycheck Fairness Act next week — a bill that the business community says is both unnecessary and sure to hurt job creation, but that others contend is necessary to ensure gender equity in the workplace. (more)

Trying to solve our economic problems with more stimulus is like the captain of the Titanic trying to solve his iceberg problems with more acceleration. (more)

President Barack Obama plans to meet in India tomorrow with one of the groups his administration branded as a villain during the election campaign: a foreign affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (more)

First, it was “make it in America,” a push by Democrats to highlight legislative proposals like “cash for clunkers” that Dems say have kept American jobs in America. (more)

In the final days before the midterm elections, Democratic Senate candidate and West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin doubled down on his opposition to parts of the health care law, legislation he supported when it was being debated in Congress last spring. (more)

President Obama capped off a four-day campaign swing out west with some frank admissions to supporters, telling them the Nov. 2 midterms are going to be “difficult” and admitting that sometimes he begins “losing hope.” (more)