Obama Cozies Up with CEOs to Lobby
Congress for Amnesty
by Matthew Boyle 5 Nov 2013, 3:56 PM PDT
Special interest groups and corporate CEOs
met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday to craft a
strategy by which they hope to make granting amnesty to
America’s
at least 11 million illegal aliens “easy” for House Speaker John Boehner.
“The politics are challenging for the
Speaker and others, and we want to make it as easy for him as possible,” Obama
said according to The Hill. “This is not an issue where we’re looking for a
political win.”
“There’s no reason why we can’t get this
done before the end of the year,” Obama added. "And I continue to be
hopeful that with the leadership of many who are around this table who
represent hundreds of thousands of employees and billions of dollars of assets,
who are important in their communities all across the country, them joining up
with law enforcement, clergy, citizens, to make the case that ultimately folks
up on Capitol Hill will do the right thing."
Corporate executives Obama met with
include McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson, Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman, Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson, State Farm CEO
Edward Rust, Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn
Hewson, Deloitte CEO Joe Echevarria, Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown, and Evercore
Partners founder Roger Altman.
According to The Hill, White House
advisers Valerie Jarrett, Cecilia
Munoz, Gene Sperling,
and Miguel Rodriguez “sat in on the meeting” as well.
Obama also claimed during the meeting that
there was “strong bipartisan support” for amnesty because former President
George W. Bush “supported the undertaking.”
"We have a fascinating cross-section
of people — some unlikely bedfellows, some very liberal folks, some very conservative
folks — who all believe that now is the time to get this done," Obama
said.
Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Sen. Jeff
Sessions (R-AL), said it is unseemly what Obama is doing on behalf of special
interests. “How can the White House justify a plan to double the number of
guest workers, and triple the number of green cards, when a record number of
Americans are out of work?” Miller said. “This plan will lower wages at a time
when millions are barely able to get by. It is special interest politics at its
worst."
Immigration
Lee H.
Hamilton is a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on
Immigration and America's Future, a director at BAE Systems
Inc., a member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Note: Michael
Chertoff is the chairman for BAE Systems Inc.,
and the founder for the Chertoff Group.
William
J. Bratton is a director at Motorola Solutions,
and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council.
Richard C.
Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), married to Senator Dianne
Feinstein, and the chairman for the CBRE Group,
Inc.
Dianne
Feinstein is married to Richard C. Blum,
a member of the Alfalfa Club, and a U.S. Senate senator.
Frederic
V. Malek is a director at the CBRE Group, Inc,
a member of the Alfalfa Club, a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was the president of
Marriott hotels & resorts for the Marriott Corporation.
Arthur
B. Culvahouse Jr. is a trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and was lobbyist for the Lockheed
Martin Corporation.
Michael
L. Tipsord is a trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the vice chairman & COO for the State Farm Insurance Companies.
Glenn H.
Hutchins is a trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and was a general partner at the Blackstone
Group.
Roger C.
Altman was the vice chairman for the Blackstone Group,
and is the chairman for Evercore Partners Inc.
Austin
M. Beutner was a partner at the Blackstone Group,
and the president for Evercore Partners Inc.
G.
Richard Thoman was a senior adviser for Evercore
Partners Inc., and is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Peter G.
Peterson was the chairman & co-founder for the Blackstone
Group, and is a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Roger W.
Stone is a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development, and a director at the McDonald's
Corporation.
Andrew
J. McKenna Sr. is the chairman for the McDonald's Corporation,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Miles D.
White is a director at the McDonald's Corporation,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory
Please note: This link for the members of
the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
Valerie
B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and the senior adviser for the Barack Obama
administration.
W.
James McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing
Company.
Barbara
G. Fast was a VP for the Boeing Company,
and a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI
Group Inc. was the Obamacare
contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Donna S.
Morea was the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.,
and a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Edward
B. Rust Jr. is a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development, and the chairman & CEO for the State Farm
Insurance Companies.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Committee for Economic
Development, the Center for American
Progress, and Amnesty International.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations, and was a supporter for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for
American Progress, the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and Amnesty International.
Melody C.
Barnes was the SVP for the Center for American
Progress, the domestic policy council,
director for the Barack Obama administration, and
is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Cecilia
Munoz is a director at the Domestic Policy Council,
and was the SVP for the National Council of La
Raza.
Gene B.
Sperling was a senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and is the director at the National
Economic Council for the Barack Obama
administration.
Ralph
Scott Lilly is a senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and was the lobby firm for the Lockheed
Martin Corporation.
Brian D.
Dailey was the SVP for the Lockheed Martin
Corporation, and is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Joseph
W. Ralston is a director at the Lockheed Martin
Corporation, and a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Charles
F. Wald is a senior adviser for Deloitte LLP,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Wesley K.
Clark is a senior adviser for the Blackstone Group,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
John
J. Studzinski is a senior managing director for the Blackstone
Group, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
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