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Corporate America proudly backs the One Big Brutal Bill

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Without further ado, the corporations publicly backing the One Big Brutal Bill (OBBB), a multi-trillion-dollar omnibus of climate injustice. The list was helpfully compiled by House Whip Tom “Rememmer, Rememmer The Fifth of Novemmer” Emmer (R-Minn.).

Corporate America has always been selfish and short-sighted, and the fossil-fuel industry has always been dominated by right-wing extremism, but we’re also seeing the culmination of the modern era that began in the 1990s under Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, and Jack Abramoff, who engineered the takeover of corporate lobbying by ideological Republican operatives.1

There was clear opposition to the bill from the offshore wind trade group Oceantic Network, saying the bill “worsens our national energy crisis and will directly harm Americans,” and the Solar Energy Industries Association, which said the bill “will effectively dismantle the most successful industrial onshoring effort in U.S. history.

In contrast, Jason Grumet from the lobbying arm of the “clean” energy industry, the American Clean Power Association, could only muster “The legislation advanced today out of House Ways and Means does not deliver an orderly phase-down of clean energy tax credits.

Companies in Full Support

Altria on climate change

Unsurprisingly, fossil-fuel companies back the Big Brutal Bill:

  • Charps “a critical step toward strengthening our economy and supporting working families”

  • Chevron “supports the House budget reconciliation bill”

  • Coterra Energy “supports the House budget reconciliation bill”

  • Occidental Petroleum “support the House budget reconciliation bill”

But so do many others, all of whom pay lip service to fighting climate pollution and protecting the environment:

GREAT CLIPS

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  • Great Clips

  • Hand and Stone

  • Fantastic Sams

  • Boulevard

  • Regis Corporation (Supercuts, First Choice, etc.)

  • Minerva

  • Sam Villa

  • Dessange Group North America

  • Intercoiffure America Canada

  • Hair Cuttery

  • Southwest Florida Salons

  • Sport Clips

  • V’s Barbershop

Corporate Tax Lobbying Alliances in Full Support

  • Interest Deductibility Working Group “strongly supports passage of the OBBB”

  • National Foreign Trade Council “sign this bill into law” - board includes Amazon, Google, Meta, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Siemens, among others

  • RATE Coalition “urges swift passage” - members include Altria, GM, Target, Walmart, Walt Disney, and more

Trade Groups in Full Support

  • Professional Beauty Association

  • Professional Beauty Employment Coalition

  • National Association of Barber Boards of America

  • International Salon Spa Business Network

  • International Franchise Association

  • International Spa Association

  • Esthetics Council

  • American Road & Transportation Builders Association

  • American Trucking Associations

  • American Concrete Pipe Association

  • American Subcontractors Association

  • National Ready Mixed Concrete Association

  • American Coal Ash Association

  • Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute

  • National Utility Contractors Association

  • National Asphalt Pavement Association

  • National Concrete Pavement Association

  • Transportation Intermediaries Association

  • Associated Equipment Manufacturers

  • The Innovator Alliance

  • Advanced Medical Technology Association

  • Angel Capital Association

  • Carta Center for American Entrepreneurship

  • Engine.is

  • National Venture Capital Association

  • Technology Councils of North America

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Companies in Partial Support

  • Charter Communications “applaud the House Ways and Means Committee for advancing important tax legislation”

  • Cisco “Encouraged by the House reconciliation package’s corporate tax provisions”

  • Dell “Excited to see Congress taking action to reinstate full expensing for R&D—an essential step”

  • Infinity Flight Group “Thanks to accelerated depreciation”

  • Louisiana Green Fuels LLC “a reasonable approach to maintaining and extending those energy tax credits”

  • Biofuel company POET “pleased to see an extension of the 45Z clean fuel production incentives”

  • Repsol Oil and Gas USA “supports the House Budget reconciliation bill in all aspects related to the Oil & Gas sector”

Trade Groups in Partial Support

  • American Bankers Association “strongly supports many provisions contained in the Budget Reconciliation Legislative Recommendations Related to Tax”

  • Alliance for Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness and Innovation “supports swift passage of the pro-growth tax policies in the OBBB”

  • American Composites Manufacturers Association “pass these necessary provisions into law as quickly as possible”

  • American Farm Bureau “grateful for the work of the House Agriculture and Ways and Means Committees to include crucial farm programs and improve and extend necessary business tax provisions”

  • Economic Investment Alliance “The House Committee on Ways and Means took an important step towards helping the American economy grow by approving the OBBB which restores full expensing to 100%”

  • Family Business Estate Tax Coalition “gratitude to Chairman Jason Smith and the Members of the House Committee on Ways and Means for their efforts to advance tax provisions that address the needs of family-owned businesses, farms, and ranches”

  • Forest Landowners Association “commends Congress for their diligent efforts in crafting a budget reconciliation package that includes many critical business provisions”

  • Health Benefits Institute “strong support for several provisions”

  • IPC “support for pro-growth, business provisions”

  • Mortgage Bankers Association “an important and necessary step”

  • National Asphalt Pavement Association “we share our support for user-fee increase by capturing the hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) market”

  • National Association of Realtors “this bill delivers real benefits that will strengthen the American Dream and help build resilient communities”

  • National Tooling and Machining Association

  • Retail Industry Leaders Association “hope Congress will provide tax certainty”

  • Southern Cotton Growers “complete work on the Budget Reconciliation package with the inclusion of these important commodity, conservation, crop insurance and trade provisions”

  • Transportation Intermediaries Association “strongly supports the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s provisions”

  • United States Peanut Federation “pleased to support the House Agriculture Committee’s Budget Reconciliation bill”

  • USTelecom | The Broadband Association “100% expensing—is a critical step forward”

  • Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference

  • National Grange

  • Agricultural Retailers Association

  • National Milk Producers Federation

  • American Bakers Association

  • National Peach Council

  • National Pork Producers Council

  • American Mushroom Institute

  • National Potato Council

  • American Pulse Association

  • National Sorghum Producers American

  • Quarter Horse Association

  • National Sunflower Association

  • American Sheep Industry Association

  • National Turkey Federation

  • American Soybean Association

  • Northarvest Bean Growers Association

  • American Sugar Alliance

  • Public Lands Council

  • American Sugarbeet Growers Association

  • South East Dairy Farmers Association

  • Southwest Council of Agribusiness

  • Beef Alliance

  • U.S. Apple Association

  • Crop Insurance Professionals Association

  • U.S. Beet Sugar Association

  • Farm Credit Council

  • U.S. Canola Association

  • Forest Landowners Association

  • U.S. Sweet Potato Council

  • International Fresh Produce Association

  • U.S. Pea & Lentil Trade Association

  • Livestock Marketing Association

  • U.S. Rice Producers Association

  • National Association of Wheat Growers

  • USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council

  • National Barley Growers Association

  • Western Growers Association

  • National Cattlemen's Beef Association

  • Western Peanut Growers Association

  • National Corn Growers Association

  • Western United Dairies

  • National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

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1  When Gingrich took control of the House in 1994, Tom Delay and Abramoff instituted the “K Street Project” to ensure that only lobbyists who were loyal Republican contributors would get access. Trade association reps who came from their industries learned to toe the line or were replaced by Republican staffers.

2  Some of the letters of support confuse the OBBB with H.Con.Res. 14, which was the concurrent resolution which passed Congress in April. H.Con.Res.14 established the budgetary framework for the Big Brutal Bill, which belatedly received the bill number H.R. 1.

3  On the second page of her letter of support, the NSSGA’s CEO (a former Republican staffer) is “concerned” about the repeal of the “federal program focused on low-embodied carbon labeling for construction materials.”

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