CEO DATELINE - The daily roundup of news important to associations - Sept. 24, 2013
U.S. Chamber sets sights on lower courts The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing its considerable legal resources at small courts across the country in a bid to promote its pro-business agenda, Reuters news service reports.
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NRA on Navy Yard: ‘Not enough good guys with guns' National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told David Gregory on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that with greater security on U.S. military bases, the mass shootings at the Washington Navy Yard last week could have been avoided.
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Endocrine Society picks association veteran as new CEO
New leader Barbara Byrd Keenan is head of Institute of Food Technologists; formerly led the Community Associations Institute Keenan
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New chief of ANGA off to quick start refocusing group
Former API Executive Vice President Marty Durbin, well known for public campaigns, plans a substantial increase in staff Durbin
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President Barack Obama on Sept. 18 asked CEOs of the country's largest corporations to help prevent another debt-ceiling crisis by using their influence with Republicans. In his fifth address to the Business Roundtable since taking office in 2009, Obama rapped a "small faction" of Republicans whom he said were willing to risk defaulting on U.S. debt in a vain attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, one of the signature legislative achievements of his first term.
Read MoreBartlett begins ‘sixth' new rodeo act
Former Financial Services Roundtable CEO settles into advisory role The former head of the Financial Services Roundtable has a new job—although to hear him describe it, not much will change in terms of the type of work he will do. "This is the same rodeo, but a new horse," Steve Bartlett told CEO Update. The one-time CEO recently joined Treliant Risk Advisors as senior advisor. Treliant has been in an expansion mode to respond to what it calls growing demand in the financial services industry.
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