The U.S. Chamber of Commerce shouts "JOBS" with two-story-tall block letters strung on its building facing the White House.
That might be the closest the business trade association gets to President Barack Obama's talks on skirting the fiscal cliff, a $607 billion combination of automatic spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in January.
The chamber, which spent at least $50 million on political advertising backing Republican candidates who opposed Obama, is a bystander in the debate over Washington's most critical post-election issue. It is being supplanted by other business groups such as Fix the Debt and the Partnership for New York City.
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