Revealed: Chamber lobbied against 9/11 health bill to save foreign members on taxes

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Revealed: Chamber lobbied against 9/11 health bill to save foreign members on taxes

By Nathan Diebenow
Saturday, December 18th, 2010 -- 1:53 pm


The US Chamber of Commerce lobbied to kill a bill that would have helped cover medical expenses and compensation for first responders and survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to documents available online.

The Chamber's aim was to keep open a tax loophole benefiting foreign corporations that the $7.4 billion bill would have closed to provide funding for the American emergency workers.

In a letter opposing the 9/11 bill, http://www.uschamber.com/issues/letters/2010/letter-opposing-provision-included-hr-847 R. Bruce Josten, the Chamber's executive vice president for Government Affairs, cautioned that closing the tax loophole would harm US trade relationships and financial markets.

"In typical fashion, the Chamber has not revealed which of its foreign members had asked them to kill the 9/11 bill," Lee Fang of Alternet.org http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/399971/chamber_of_commerce_lobbied_to_help_gop_kill_bill_to_provide_health_care_for_9_11_first_responders/#paragraph2 wrote.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/chamber-commerce-lobbied-kill-911-responders-bill/

[hlthe2b]

1. COC ought to be disbanded as the traitorous organization it is...

[sasha031]

2. yes they did,, the evil bastrads

that is one of the reasons the repukes have tied up this vote.

when I first read this, I was blown away by how truly corrupt our system is.

anyone who belongs to the chamber should hang there head down in shame.
But they don't, they celebrate and laugh at the little people.

[LiberalFighter]

3. This needs to get out in public in such a way that both small and large businesses

terminate their membership.

There needs to be a huge negative media blitz against the CoC and their tactics.

[glinda]

10. There needs to be a short public ad on tv actually. And a full page in the papers.

[BlueJazz]

4. C/of/C = Chamber of Cockroaches

[SoapBox]

5. There is just NO end to how evil this Organization Against America is...

...hates America.

...hates Americans.

[WinkyDink]

6. Yet millions went, without much forethought but with much lack of precedent, to Big Money-earners'

survivors.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[WCGreen]

8. Evil Bastards

[Frank Booth]

9. Anti-American scum.

Why has Obama chosen to associate with these America-hating goons?

[glinda]

11. oh and kick

[BrklynLiberal]

12. The Chamber of Commerce should be treated li ke a terrorist organization.

Their interests OBVIOUSLY do not rest with the betterment of the people of this country.

[sulphurdunn]

13. When the productive sector of American business

realizes that the financial interests of global corporations are inimical to their own, we will have a revolution.

[progressoid]

14. I wonder how many chamber members know about their actions.

I can't believe this is supported by all their members.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

15. This should be shouted from the roofs. It identifies our real oppressors. n/t

[alp227]

16. and we're still supposed to believe that the Chamber never funneled foreign money to campaign ads

riiiiiiiight.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

17. This criminal entity needs to be brought to a swift death

RICO