Infrastructure
America’s prosperity, global competitiveness, and quality of life depend on modern infrastructure. We need a durable strategy to modernize roads, bridges, transit, rail, water, energy, and modern access to broadband. Addressing these critical needs without raising taxes on business will create millions of jobs and make our communities safer.
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Permit America to Build
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To meet our growing challenges—like updating crumbling roads and bridges, addressing water quality, expanding broadband access, combatting climate change, and strengthening our energy security—the permitting process simply must be improved.
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Our Work
For nearly 25 years, the U.S. Chamber has advocated for investment in our crumbling infrastructure system. We have brought together business and labor, Democrats and Republicans, and companies of every industry to move forward this urgent and overdue national priority. We will continue to work with partners in business and government to make the investment, find the workers, and get projects moving. There may be no better way to secure our nation’s long-term competitiveness.
Events
- Small BusinessCO— Small Business DayWednesday, May 0112:00 PM EDT - 02:00 PM EDTLearn More
- Security and Resilience13th Annual Building Resilience ConferenceWednesday, May 15 - Friday, May 1708:00 AM EDT - 03:00 PM EDTLearn More
- InfrastructureGlobal Aerospace Summit 2024Tuesday, September 10 - Wednesday, September 1108:00 AM EDT - 05:00 PM EDTLearn More
Latest Content
2017 is off to a busy start for the U.S. Chamber.
Today’s Decision Shows Investors that ‘Things Have Changed in Washington’ WASHINGTON, D.C.— U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue issued the following statement today following the Trump administration’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline’s presidential permit:
America’s infrastructure is the safest investment our nation can make. But investing means more than tossing money at the problem.
Make no mistake about it – the aviation industry has been and will continue to be under assault from cyber criminals around the globe.
The latest findings are a striking confirmation of what we already know: America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of repair.
Improving our infrastructure will be a key component in modernizing many parts of the country.
Edward Mortimer's testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies hearing, "Investing in America: Funding our Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs."
Last week's Aviation Summit is another way that the Chamber has supported economic growth this year.
One of the highlights of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s annual Aviation Summit is the presentation of the Carol B. Hallett Award.
Let's take a moment to look at what the president has done and what he should do in the months ahead to help our economy grow faster.