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Small Business
Chamber outlines agenda
April 8, 1998: 2:58 p.m. ET

Organization challenges congressmen to fill out small-business paperwork
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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is challenging every senator and congressman to spend time in the nation's small businesses to see first-hand the many regulatory hurdles they must climb.
     In a speech Tuesday to the Detroit Economic Club, Chamber President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Donohue, challenged Congress to work more closely with the small businesses in their districts.
     "Every member of Congress should spend a good part of a day filling out governmental paperwork and complying with government regulations. Many members have no idea the hurdles small businesses must navigate in complying with often unreasonable and duplicative government mandates," he said.
     Donohue also outlined the organization's agenda, which includes support for welfare-to-work programs and initiatives that give opportunities to disabled individuals and retirees.
     The chamber also has formed a new organization, the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, which will work with other groups pushing for reform to get initiatives passed at the federal and state levels.
     Donohue also said the organization will fight in the courts and in Washington to "inject some sanity into environmental rules." He said passage of more stringent clean air rules and a global warming treaty would "land a crippling blow to the American economy and hit the automobile industry particularly hard."
     "As the country looks to business for lasting growth and a high standard of living, we must embrace policies that unshackle American entrepreneurs. They are America's dream builders standing on the side of growth, change, a freer economy and continued prosperity."Back to top

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