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After spending tens of millions to elect Republican candidates, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce still can\u2019t get them to do what it wants.<\/p>\n


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In late February, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation\u2019s biggest and most powerful lobbying group, gathered its members from around the country together on a conference call to talk politics.<\/p>\n

The business group invited a special guest, Sen. Dan Sullivan, a newly elected Republican from Alaska. And Sullivan didn\u2019t mince words in saying thanks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout your support,\u201d Sullivan told the listeners, \u201cI think it\u2019s very doubtful I\u2019d be sitting here as your U.S. senator, talking to you right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan has plenty of company.<\/p>\n

The Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars to elect a Republican-dominated Congress<\/a> in 2014 and just about ran the table: 252 of the 268 mostly Republican federal candidates endorsed by the business lobby won their races.<\/p>\n

In the wake of that stellar win-loss record<\/a>, a Chamber celebration should be in order\u2014but that\u2019s not how it\u2019s playing out. In fact, as Congress leaves town for two weeks of Easter recess, there\u2019s been remarkably little progress in the first three months of the new Congress on many of the biggest items on the Chamber\u2019s wish list\u2014comprehensive tax reform, immigration reform, a long-term highway bill\u2014and the prospects for action later this year are equally bleak. The Chamber is seemingly on a political roll, in some ways at the height of its power\u2014but is finding it tougher and tougher to get what it really wants.<\/p>\n

But leaders of the business lobby say they are soldiering on undaunted. Instead, the Chamber, whose imposing limestone headquarters fronted by Corinthian columns stand watch over the White House in the heart of Washington, D.C., is taking the long view, and perhaps that\u2019s a natural strategy for an institution that has represented business in the halls of political power for more than a century.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just going to run it 24 months in a row, cycle after cycle after cycle,\u201d said Thomas Donohue, 76, the Chamber\u2019s longtime president and chief executive officer, during the Feb. 19 conference call.<\/p>\n

The group is already raising money for upcoming special elections in New York and Mississippi. And after Labor Day, it plans to launch image-boosting campaigns in states like Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which all have Chamber-friendly Republican Senate incumbents up in 2016.<\/p>\n

The long-haul strategy could well pay off\u2014but it also might prove a tough sell to a fractious membership that wants quicker returns on the mountains of cash they pump into the Chamber.<\/p>\n

A booming voice<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes itself as businesses\u2019 \u201cvoice in Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also their army for hire. But it doesn\u2019t come cheap.<\/p>\n

The Chamber is easily the nation\u2019s biggest business trade association, with an annual budget that has ranged from $145 million to $210 million each year from 2008 through 2013.<\/p>\n

In 2014, the Chamber and its subsidiaries reported spending more than $124 million on lobbying, according<\/a> to the Center for Responsive Politics, or roughly $340,000 per day. <\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t disclose a full member list, although its board members include representatives of massive corporations such as ConocoPhillips, AT&T Inc. and IBM, together with scores of others whose products and services are woven through every aspect of American life. And it doesn\u2019t volunteer who provides the money that fuels its influence efforts. Some companies disclose<\/a> their memberships and their dues themselves, and the membership roster is revealed in other ways as well. The Chamber\u2019s building, for example, is dotted with conference rooms named for companies, including Amway, 3M Co. and Nabisco.<\/p>\n

The Chamber has ties to other groups who spend money to influence elections, many of which don\u2019t reveal their donors, including the network of nonprofits linked to the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.<\/p>\n

Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce Inc., one of the major groups tied to the Koch brothers and the current nerve center of the Koch network, gave the Chamber $3.5 million between November 2011 and December 2013.<\/p>\n

Big checks from giant corporate members drive the Chamber\u2019s operations. In 2013, the Chamber reported receiving 30 contributions of $1 million or more, according to its most recent available tax filing. That included one contribution of more than $5 million.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect such secrecy to ebb: The Chamber fights fiercely <\/a>against<\/a> disclosing any more information about its supporters than it must.<\/p>\n

Anonymity gives the Chamber \u201cmaximum freedom to raise money and to spend money,\u201d said Bruce Freed<\/a>, the president of the Center for Political Accountability<\/a>, which pushes for more corporate political spending transparency.<\/p>\n

The 30 contributions totaled a little more than $53 million\u2014about 34 percent of the Chamber\u2019s contributions in 2013. Many associations, small businesses and local chambers pay far less.<\/p>\n

The trade association aggressively put that money and clout to use during the last election. It played a major part in the campaign to save Republican Sen. Thad Cochran\u2019s seat in a tight Mississippi primary runoff, jumped in early with ads for Sen. Mitch McConnell, who became Senate majority leader, and spent millions to elect Republican freshmen such as Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Now the Chamber is trying to figure out how best to take advantage of its electoral success to push for its policy goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the maximum point of leverage, and we can\u2019t let it be fleeting,\u201d the Chamber\u2019s national political director, Rob Engstrom, told the members on the conference call in February. <\/p>\n

In an interview, Bruce Josten, the Chamber\u2019s longtime head of government affairs, said the group is playing \u201ca long-haul game\u201d when it comes to legislative priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can honestly and fairly say I\u2019ve been working on immigration reform for close to 20 years,\u201d said Josten, who himself marked 40 years with the Chamber last summer. \u201cThe design of the Congress and the separation of powers was deliberate not to make it easy to enact a lot of law. It is just what it is.\u201d<\/div>\n

Like everyone else in politics, the business lobby finds itself navigating an increasingly polarized Washington, though the Chamber also sits at the center of a debate over whether it\u2019s contributing to that atmosphere or reacting to it. With moderates vanishing on both sides of the aisle, the Chamber is working to elbow Republicans toward its views.<\/p>\n

The split in the Republican Party helped drive the Chamber\u2019s 2014 election strategy as it pushed for candidates it said would govern rather than obstruct.<\/p>\n

But Donohue is known for his mane of bright white hair and thunderous rhetoric\u2014during an event last December, he said<\/a> proponents of corporate political spending disclosure want businesses to be \u201ctargeted, harassed, criticized and boycotted\u201d and forced from the political arena\u2014shows no sign of stepping back.<\/p>\n

In a letter to members dated Feb. 2 obtained by the Center for Public Integrity<\/a>, he praised early signs of action by Congress on the Chamber\u2019s priorities but struck an urgent tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIssues that divide Republicans, but shouldn\u2019t\u2014including immigration reform, infrastructure, and the Ex-Im Bank\u2014must see positive action,\u201d he wrote. Congress, he said, must \u201cmeet a series of upcoming fiscal deadlines to ensure the continuity of essential government services.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be sure, the House and Senate last week both passed budgets, though they must still reconcile them. The House also passed a measure to replace the formula-setting pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. House leaders billed the legislation as a step towards entitlement reform, a larger Chamber priority.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the dispute over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which left Congress scrambling to avoid the agency\u2019s partial shutdown, signals a tough slog ahead.<\/p>\n

All in for Republicans<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chamber may not be quite as Republican as, say, the Republican National Committee, but it\u2019s gotten pretty close.<\/p>\n

The Chamber endorsed six Democrats in 2014, all running for the House, out of 268 federal candidates it supported.<\/p>\n

Out of the $35.5 million it told the Federal Election Commission it spent advocating for candidates during the 2014 election cycle, only about $500,000\u2014roughly 1.4 percent\u2014was spent to benefit Democrats: incumbent House members John Barrow in Georgia and Scott Peters in California, according<\/a> to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance data.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always this way. In 2008, the Chamber endorsed 38 Democrats, including some running for Senate such as Louisiana\u2019s Mary Landrieu and Arkansas\u2019 Mark Pryor, who both lost their seats this time around. In 2010, the Chamber endorsed 21 Democrats, and in 2012, five.<\/p>\n

The 2012 elections went poorly for the Chamber when its attempts to defeat unfriendly Democratic senators fizzled and most won re-election. In the wake of that bitter November, the Chamber\u2019s leadership ordered a full review of its political operation and decided it needed better candidates on the Republican side.<\/p>\n

So during the 2014 cycle, the Chamber injected itself into Republican primaries to knock out \u201ccandidates out there running on the Republican side that want to come to Washington and shut the place down,\u201d said Scott Reed, the Chamber\u2019s senior political strategist<\/a>, during aWall Street Journal<\/em> panel<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

The Chamber ran nearly 17,000 television spots mentioning a Senate candidate during the 2014 election cycle, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of advertising data provided by Kantar Media\/CMAG, an advertising tracking service. It also ran ads in two dozen House races.<\/p>\n

It boosted advertising on social media, placing ads on sites ranging from Facebook to music streaming service Pandora.<\/p>\n

It drafted buzzy spokesmen, including NASCAR driver Richard Petty for North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis<\/a> and football great Brett Favre, who cut an ad<\/a> urging Mississippi voters to re-elect U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. It also made use of several likely 2016 Republican presidential contenders, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.<\/p>\n

Bush and Rubio did Spanish-language ads in states such as Colorado and Arizona, and the Chamber deployed Paul in states such as North Carolina, where a Libertarian candidate threatened to siphon votes from a Chamber-backed Republican.<\/p>\n

The Chamber is already reviewing the 2016 electoral map to figure out which spokesmen would make the most effective messengers for the states in play.<\/p>\n

The Chamber insists it isn\u2019t aligned with either party. Still, the increasingly partisan tilt raises questions for some Chamber members who point out it will need Democratic votes on legislative priorities that don\u2019t necessarily break down along partisan lines, such as trade, tax reform, immigration reform and infrastructure funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere do they plan to go from here? Are they going to achieve their legislative goals with those numbers?\u201d said a lobbyist for one Chamber member company who requested anonymity because his company did not grant him permission to speak on the record. His company routinely pays the Chamber six figures annually.<\/p>\n

The Chamber\u2019s policy work began right after the election, Josten said: meeting with members and organizing briefings. It successfully pushed for the reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, a program<\/a> under which the federal government repays businesses\u2019 costs after a catastrophic terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

Other issues are proving significantly stickier to resolve.<\/p>\n

Republicans acknowledge comprehensive tax reform isn\u2019t likely happening this Congress, and more modest tax legislation will also have to leap serious hurdles. Immigration reform shows no sign of life. The president wants so-called \u201cfast-track\u201d authority to negotiate trade agreements, something the Chamber strongly supports, but a significant number of Democrats and some Republicans are opposed.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s broad agreement more money is needed to rebuild roads, bridges and other infrastructure, lawmakers can\u2019t agree on how much to spend or how they\u2019ll pay for it all\u2014and it has been a decade since the last time Congress successfully passed a long-term transportation bill.<\/p>\n

One top priority issue: reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, a bank that makes and guarantees loans for American companies doing business in other countries. Its charter expires in June and reauthorization is garnering vigorous resistance from a hefty number of Republicans. On the list of the opposed: House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling, who Josten acknowledges presents a challenge.<\/p>\n

Hensarling, a Texas Republican, has called<\/a> the Ex-Im bank \u201ca sweetheart deal\u201d for big companies like Boeing Co. and Caterpillar Inc. (both Chamber members) that doesn\u2019t do enough to help small business. North Carolina\u2019s Tillis, who enjoyed more than $5.6 million in help from the Chamber, is<\/a> also opposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Josten said he\u2019s working on the Ex-Im bank issue constantly, both with members and other associations, to bring pressure to bear and help harvest some votes.<\/p>\n

Scoring votes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats have their own take on the Chamber.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hardly flattering.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have long viewed them as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party,\u201d said former Rep. Earl Pomeroy, a North Dakota Democrat who lost his seat in 2010, thanks in large part to $270,000 the Chamber spent against him.<\/p>\n

Of course, many argue the Chamber is doing exactly what it should be doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you talk about why is it important that the Chamber was successful in these elections, it\u2019s so they have a stronger voice,\u201d said Patricia Elizondo, a senior vice president at Xerox Corp. and a member of the Chamber\u2019s board of directors since 2008.<\/p>\n

Bill Miller, who helped build<\/a> the Chamber\u2019s political machine and oversaw its 2010 election efforts before he left in 2011, said members expect the Chamber to support legislators who are \u201cvulnerable and helpful to the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chamber\u2019s Josten says the organization chooses which candidates to support based on their votes on key issues, which it tallies in an annual<\/a> scorecard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody likes to fixate on some of the big issues we care about and say, well, jeez, Bruce, you guys favor comprehensive immigration reform and Joe Blow\u2019s against it,\u201d he said. \u201cYeah, OK, so? And Joe Blow\u2019s an 87 percenter with us on everything else, or a 92 percenter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chamber\u2019s Senate scorecard<\/a> for 2013\u2014the most recent available\u2014includes eight votes, from major appropriations bills to immigration reform to reauthorizing the Federal Helium Reserve to sell helium to private entities. <\/p>\n

As for why the Chamber has endorsed and spent for fewer Democrats lately, Josten said ironclad party discipline has yielded shrinking numbers of Democrats who vote with the Chamber often enough to score well.<\/p>\n

He portrayed the Chamber\u2019s political activity as promoting moderates.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I can\u2019t say that our efforts led to a full restoration \u2026 of the middle, but it certainly was the beginning of a process of trying to restore a middle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chamber members don\u2019t always like how the candidates fare on the scorecard. For instance, insurance companies, which heavily supported Pomeroy, a former insurance commissioner, weren\u2019t thrilled when the Chamber targeted him.<\/p>\n

Rep. John Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat who is sponsoring<\/a> legislation<\/a> aimed at reducing the impact of groups that spend money to sway elections, said the Chamber is enormously influential, though many of its priorities are unlikely to pass this Congress.<\/p>\n

But \u201cit\u2019s in the nature of organizations like that to take the long view,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if they need a win anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

When major bills move, he said, the Chamber will have a say.<\/p>\n

Wrangling members<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chamber\u2019s effectiveness depends on forging accord among businesses of all sizes, types and regions, said Dirk Van Dongen, the longtime head of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors<\/a>, a Chamber member.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chamber has the challenge of kind of herding all the business community cats, if you will, into some coherency,\u201d Van Dongen said.<\/p>\n

The policy process is elaborate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not Tom Donohue throwing darts at a dartboard in his office to decide how to position the U.S. Chamber,\u201d said David Adkisson, the president and chief executive officer<\/a> of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and U.S. Chamber board member. \u201cIt\u2019s a very deliberate, relatively formal process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some issues, such as the major Chamber priorities of trade and infrastructure spending, aren\u2019t particularly divisive.<\/p>\n

Others are tougher. Donohue has repeatedly acknowledged<\/a> net neutrality divides the tech community, but the Chamber opposes<\/a> the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s move last month to reclassify Internet service so it\u2019s treated more like a utility.<\/p>\n

Then there are issues such as tax reform, where \u201cyou\u2019ll never get the business community all on one page,\u201d said Josten.<\/p>\n

Donohue, who earned about $5.5 million from the Chamber in 2013, encourages debate and brings in experts to guide members to a policy position.<\/p>\n

When a decision is made, he doesn\u2019t back off, says Xerox\u2019s Elizondo, even if members threaten to walk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen the outcome where there is a faction of the group that doesn\u2019t agree and sometimes there is a price to pay, but it\u2019s good to know the process for getting to the answer is a pretty good one at the Chamber,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

High-profile disputes have been bleeding into the public domain.<\/p>\n

During 2009 and 2010, a group of companies, including Apple Inc., Exelon Corp. and Pacific Gas and Electric, quit the Chamber over its opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s plans to regulate greenhouse gases and other climate-change-related issues. Nike Inc. left the Chamber\u2019s board. Other members, including Microsoft Corp.<\/a> and Johnson & Johnson, issued statements<\/a> disagreeing with the Chamber\u2019s position.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Yahoo Inc. also quit, reportedly<\/a> over intellectual property legislation the Chamber supported and Yahoo opposed.<\/p>\n

More than 40 local chambers issued statements distancing themselves from the national organization\u2019s 2010 midterm election spending, citing a backlash, Politico<\/em> reported<\/a>. Several local chamber presidents interviewed by the Center for Public Integrity said, sometimes with deep sighs, they are frequently called upon to explain their relationship with the U.S. Chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople come in and say we don\u2019t want to be a member of the Fayetteville Chamber because we don\u2019t want to be a member of the U.S. Chamber because we don\u2019t agree with the policies of the U.S. Chamber,\u201d said Steve Clark, the president of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce in Arkansas.<\/p>\n

But not everyone who quits can stay away.<\/p>\n

Bob Linscheid, head of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, said his group left the U.S. Chamber for a few years, a rupture caused largely by differences over climate change and other environmental issues.<\/p>\n

Linscheid re-upped its membership in early 2013. \u201cI felt it best to not take our marbles and go home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The two groups agree on the need for immigration reform, although Linscheid doesn\u2019t believe it will happen anytime soon, no matter what the Chamber wants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not going to be able to deliver. I\u2019m frustrated by that, but I\u2019m also a realist.\u201d Linscheid said.<\/p>\n

Exelon, the giant electric utility, rejoined in 2012, said spokesman Paul Adams. <\/p>\n

Internal strife<\/strong><\/p>\n

Worse than disagreements among members, sometimes the Chamber publicly disagrees with itself.<\/p>\n

Last year, the U.S. Trade Representative\u2019s office was trying to prod foreign countries to improve enforcement of intellectual property rights\u2014the kind of arcane but routine Washington ritual that can have high stakes for companies doing business abroad.<\/p>\n

In February 2014, the U.S. Chamber\u2019s Global Intellectual Property Center urged the trade representative to downgrade India\u2019s status because it \u201chas not shown a record of engagement on these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S.-India Business Council, another Chamber program that represents companies doing business in India, didn\u2019t agree. Ron Somers, then the council\u2019s president, wrote in March 2014 that a downgrade would be unwarranted.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, David Chavern, then the Chamber\u2019s chief operating officer, sent a third letter to the trade representative stressing the U.S.-India Business Council\u2019s policy autonomy\u2014and the Chamber\u2019s disagreement with its position.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that a number of Chamber and USIBC joint members, including some companies identified as directors on the USIBC\u2019s letterhead, do not support key elements of the USIBC\u2019s submission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pfizer Inc., a member of both groups, sent its own letter saying it didn\u2019t support the U.S.-India Business Council\u2019s position, and soon its name disappeared from council\u2019s online list of members, though it was recently restored.<\/p>\n

By mid-April, Somers resigned<\/a> to start a consulting practice.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hand in glove\u2019 with the Senate<\/strong><\/p>\n

In January, with the new Congress getting underway, the new chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, Orrin Hatch, unveiled<\/a> his 2015 agenda in a speech at the Chamber.<\/p>\n

The Utah Republican called tax reform the top priority and said \u201call the people [at the Chamber] work hand in glove with us and help us to understand when we\u2019re wrong and help us to understand how to make things right.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will certainly keep doing that. And just like in past election cycles, the Chamber is positioned to be a major player during the 2016 election cycle and will likely continue to throw its considerable weight behind Republicans.<\/p>\n

Strategists on its February call said they are already building up resources, and Donohue told members they were welcome to come in and talk about individual races.<\/p>\n

The Chamber will put its resources to work immediately. Reed, the political strategist, said it would back Richmond County District Attorney Dan Donovan, a Republican, in New York\u2019s upcoming special election for a congressional seat representing Staten Island and part of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

In Mississippi, where there\u2019s another special election, \u201cIt\u2019s tea party central. We\u2019ve got to keep an eye on this,\u201d Reed said during the call, adding it is likely to go to a runoff.<\/p>\n

And 2016 planning is already well underway.<\/p>\n

The Chamber traditionally avoids directly participating in presidential politics, and it\u2019s offered no indication it will change this philosophy for 2016. Nevertheless, it\u2019s certain to have a major say in which politicians succeed farther down the ticket.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a role Donohue relishes.<\/p>\n

During the February conference call, Sullivan, the new senator from Alaska, recounted how an earthquake hit the state during the public event that marked the unveiling of the Chamber\u2019s endorsement of him. He went on to praise the calm way the Chamber\u2019s Engstrom handled the quake.<\/p>\n

Donohue interrupted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to tell you, senator, why he handled it so calmly,\u201d Donohue quipped. \u201cHe had arranged the earthquake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vintage Donohue swagger\u2014but the Chamber may find the ground easier to move than this Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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