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Chamber of Commerce mocks worker safety system, despite endorsement by major Chamber members and National Mining Association

cmonforton | April 9, 2012

The US Chamber of Commerce had a quaint little game on its website last month, complete with a YouTube video with fake sportscasters. The PR campaign called "Regulatory Madness" keyed off the annual NCAA's basketball tournament we know as March Madness. The cutesy idea was for business people to use the Chamber's pick of the 16 most "maddening" Obama Administration regulations, and fill in brackets to ultimately chose the most "maddening" one of all. They called it their "not-so-pretty Sweet Sixteen." Their "top picks" included financial, health care and environmental regulations, such…

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