chamber of commerce president and ceo thomas donohue talked to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the washington bureau of the christian science monitor. he talked about legislative priorities in the coming years and the chamber's role in the upcoming 2016 election. this is an hour. >> so metropolitan this morning, we're going to have people join us in progress, but we want to stay on sedge. i'm dave -- on schedule. i'm dave cook from the monitor, our guests today are thomas donohue and bruce josten, the chamber's the world's largest not-for-profit business administration. both men have been our guests before, and we're glad they came back. according to "the new york times," mr. donahue once wrote his ambition was to, quote, bring the biggest -- [inaudible] in this town, unquote. before leading the chamber, he served for 13 years as president and chief executive officer of the american trucking association. prior to his tour at the ata, he was group vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce for eight years. in an earlier chapter, he was deputy assistant postmaster general and vic

chamber of commerce president and ceo thomas donohue talked to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the washington bureau of the christian science monitor. he talked about legislative priorities in the coming years and the chamber's role in the upcoming 2016 election. this is an hour. >> so metropolitan this morning, we're going to have people join us in prre

we have thomas donohue, president and ceo of the chamber of commerce. both men are glad that we have come back, mr. donohue has been with the chamber since 1997, according to "the new york times" he once said that his ambition was to build up the town. he served for 13 years as president and chief executive officer and he was group vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce for eight years. in an earlier chapter in his life he was postmaster general and vice president gore fairfield university. bruce is the senior affairs executive. he came well-equipped for a rapid rise and he oversees six major divisions within the chamber. now always on to the process portion of the program. we are on the record. no live blogging order tweet. there is no embargo when the session ends. if you would like to ask a question, do the traditional thing and send me a nonthreatening signal. we will start off with afrin are just the ability to make comments and then we will move to questions around the table. >> thank you very much, i am pleased to be back there are plenty

we have thomas donohue, president and ceo of the chamber of commerce. both men are glad that we have come back, mr. donohue has been with the chamber since 1997, according to "the new york times" he once said that his ambition was to build up the town. he served for 13 years as president and chief executive officer and he was group vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce for eight years. in an earlier chapter in his life he was postmaster general and vice president gore fairfield university. bruce is the senior affairs executive. he came well-equipped for a rapid rise and he oversees six major divisions within the chamber. now always on to the process portion of the program. we are on the record. no live blogging order tweet. there is no embargo when the session ends. if you would like to ask a question, do the traditional thing and send me a nonthreatening signal. we will start off with afrin are just the ability to make comments and then we will move to questions around the table. >> thank you very much, i am pleased to be back there are plenty