[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26130-26131]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

  (Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BUCHANAN. Madam Speaker, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce represents 
more than 3 million businesses that employ millions and millions of 
Americans. The overwhelming majority of these businesses are small 
business, the engine of our economy.
  So it is more than a little surprising that the administration will 
be attacking this pro-job, pro-growth organization at a time when our 
economy is in the worst recession in 80 years. Shouldn't we be working 
together to create jobs and pull our country out of this economic mess? 
Shouldn't the Congress and the administration and

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the private sector all have a singular purpose of restoring America's 
economy and leading the worldwide economic resurgence?
  Yet reports that I have read in recent weeks indicate a constant 
attacking of the Chamber and discrediting the Chamber of Commerce.
  As a former chairman of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, we 
represented 139,000 small businesses in my home State of Florida. I 
urge the administration to drop its attack mentality and work together 
with the very groups responsible for creating jobs and growth in the 
United States of America.

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