All in for amnesty.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s political effort to preserve the current GOP majorities in the House and Senate this year could entail stepping into various primary contests if renegade candidates look like they will put seats in jeopardy, Chamber CEO Thomas J. Donohue said Wednesday.
“We’re not going to spend a lot of money when we have a good candidate running in a safe seat that we feel is not going to be a problem,” Mr. Donohue said. “We’re going to spend a whole lot of money when we have an unsafe seat and a candidate that we believe is more interested in disrupting the process than governing and fixing the process.”
Mr. Donohue said his organization, the generally GOP-aligned business lobbying group, is trying to drive consensus and “put a middle back in Congress,” decrying what he described as increased partisanship on both sides of the aisle.
“At the same time, we believe that whoever has the leadership sets the agenda, and so we will attempt to hold both Houses of the Congress as it is, while at the same time becoming much more public and engaged on working with Democrats,” he said.
He also said, though, that his group wouldn’t rule out contributing money to a Democratic Senate candidate this cycle.