Legislative leaders shared their views at Session Priorities: (from left) Senate Majority Leader David Senjem, House Speaker Kurt Zellers, moderator Tom Hauser of KSTP-TV, House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk. Involta broke ground in September for a $10.5 million data center in Duluth:(from left) Lonnie Bloomquist of Involta; Nancy Norr of Minnesota Power; Senator Roger Reinert; Involta CEO Bruce Lehrman; DEED Commissioner Mark Phillips; County Commissioner Steve O'Neil; David Ross of the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce; Mayor Don Ness. Joe Swedberg (left), vice president of legislative affairs at Hormel Foods Corporation in Austin, visits with Dr. Zigang Dong, executive director of The Hormel Institute, during a tour by Leadership Minnesota. Bob Anderson (left), who recently retired from Boise Paper at International Falls, receives the Spirit of Minnesota Award from Jon Campbell, chair of the Minnesota Chamber Board. Current Minnesota Chamber board members Jan Kruchoski and Sanjay Kuba, and former member Russ Nelson, had a personal audience with Governor Mark Dayton at Session Priorities. Jay Timmons, president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Manufacturers, addresses the Minnesota Manufacturers Summit.


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The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce works each and every day to ensure that your business has the most competitive business environment possible. Our advocacy at the State Capitol on behalf of all business customers is second to none. We have a distinguished record of protecting our members' bottom lines by delivering results in the Legislature, regulatory arenas and courts.

We regularly test our policy recommendations with a survey of our entire membership and focus groups with our members across the state. In addition, our agenda is bolstered by the Minnesota Business Barometer survey, a poll of the general business community, cosponsored by Himle Horner, Inc.

The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce represents more than 500,000 employees, 2,400 companies, and a network of more than 130 local chambers of commerce. While not every recommendation has unanimous agreement, our members are united on our key priorities.

In total, we have policies and background information on approximately 50 issues. Click here to read more on these issues.

CHAMBER FEDERATION

Our relationship with local chambers of commerce is the foundation of the Minnesota Chamber’s grassroots network and our success at the Capitol. We work with all local chambers to speak as one voice on critical issues that affect our economy.

We specifically recognize the following chambers to date, that, by resolution, have committed to be Federation partners in 2012. These chambers formally support the business community’s four priority issues: budget reform; education; energy; environmental permitting and health care.

In addition, these chambers are partners in Grow Minnesota!, our private-sector initiative committed to retaining and growing Minnesota companies. We applaud their pledge to represent statewide business interests with a unified voice.

Click here to read the Federations priorities.

2012 Federation Partners:
Austin
Bemidji
Brainerd Lakes
Burnsville
Cambridge
Dakota County Regional
Eden Prairie
Elk River
Faribault


Fergus Falls
Grand Rapids
Hastings
Hibbing
I-94 West
International Falls
Lakeville
Litchfield
Marshall

Minneapolis Regional
Monticello
New Ulm
Owatonna
River Heights
Rochester
St. Cloud
Saint Paul
SouthWest Metro

Thief River Falls
TwinWest
Waconia
Waseca
Willmar
Winona

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