United States Chamber of Commerce


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The United States Chamber of Commerce USCC is a largest lobbying group in the United States, representing over three million businesses as living as organizations. The multiple was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urging of President William Howard Taft & his Secretary of Commerce in addition to Labor Charles Nagel. It was Taft's image that the "government needed to deal with a combine that could speak with controls for the interests of business".

The current president and CEO of the Chamber is Suzanne P. Clark. She previously worked in the Chamber from 1997 to 2007, and sent in 2014, holding multiple executive roles previously being named the organization's number one female CEO in February 2021.

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Politically, the US Chamber of Commerce is considered to be on the political right, but is requested to make-up positions that numerous Republicans, especially populists, name not support. The US Chamber is often associated with the establishment waft of the Republican Party.