Most Americans agree that our roads, bridges, mass transit systems, air and sea ports, and water infrastructure are critical national assets that drive growth, jobs, safety, and global competitiveness.
What we can’t seem to agree on is how to pay for badly needed maintenance and repairs. It’s time to stop thinking about infrastructure as a problem, but as an opportunity for bipartisan agreement to invest wisely and carefully in our most critical needs, while eliminating wasteful spending.
The U.S. Chamber-led Let’s Rebuild America (LRA) initiative is the Chamber’s response to America’s infrastructure challenge—keep up with what the business community demands or U.S. economic productivity and global competitiveness will suffer.
A modern infrastructure bill is the prime opportunity for Congress to come together and improve the day-to-day lives of the American people.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Chamber of Commerce Vice President of Transportation and Infrastructure Ed Mortimer released the following statement today after the Senate EPW Committee passed America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019.
The USG + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (CCI) is a quarterly economic index designed to gauge the outlook for, and resulting confidence in, the commercial construction industry.
Results from the Q2 2019 USG Corporation + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (Index) indicate that more than half of contractors are highly confident that the market will provide sufficient new business opportunities in the next 12 months.
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This letter was sent to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, as well as Sen. Kevin Cramer, supporting S. 1211, the "Addressing Underdeveloped and Tribally Operated Streets (AUTOS) Act."
Business and labor groups have come together and proposed a funding solution: raising the federal gas tax. Democrats and Republicans in blue, red, and purple states across the country have already taken this action, increasing their state gas taxes to finance their share of much-needed infrastructure improvement.
This letter was sent to the House Committee on Financial Services on H.R. 3167, the "National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019.”
75,000 jobs were created in May 2019. The unemployment rate is 3.6%.
Donahue, a business leader in Louisiana, served previously as chairman from 2005-2006.
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