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...mandate - a requirement that companies provide health insurance to their workers. And there's little evidence it will be any easier to include one this time around. "It will be a job killer, because employers who cannot afford it will reduce payroll and not hire new workers," warns Bruce Josten of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. What business would prefer to see - and what Obama rejected during his presidential campaign - is an individual mandate requiring everyone who doesn't get health coverage at work to go out and buy it, just as car owners have to carry automobile insurance...
...sales tax deduction [a measure that makes sure the seven states without income taxes do not lose money under the federal code], others come from Midwestern states affected by floods and need the disaster relief in the package. Still others live in areas affected by Hurricane Ike," says Bruce Josten, a senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents three million U.S. businesses. "I think they're going to carefully going have to noodle out how they're going to vote on this...
...Insurance Corporation's ceiling of guaranteed deposits to $250,000. And the initial no vote gave many members facing unhappy constituents so close to an election cover to vote for the second bill. "In this game, part of the way of winning is losing to get there," says Bruce Josten, a vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents 3 million U.S. businesses...
...Bush Administration to enforce labor and environmental clauses of trade pacts - something they claim Bush has hardly seemed inclined to do thus far. Even though the Peru agreement will likely survive, that kind of argument will likely help prevent the other three from making it through, according to Bruce Josten, the top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "Peru will in all probability constitute the entire free trade agenda to see a vote this year," Josten said...
...Still, it is so early in this wide-open race that no one dares to offer a firm prediction - except that voters, now more than ever, won't tolerate mudslinging. "The bulk of us who are active will ignore it," says attorney Robert Josten, 64, a Des Moines Democrat. "We will not let it be silly... the candidates are going to hurt themselves as much as they hurt each other if they play the childish games." "It diverts our attention from the real issues and it's annoying. Americans are so frustrated right now and really want to see clear...