Senior Obama administration officials met with businesses association groups Thursday at the White House to talk about looming spending cuts.
Aides -- senior adviser Valerie Jarret, Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, Jeff Zients, director of the Office of Management and Budget and Alan Krueger, the president’s chief economist -- met with both small and large business groups.
"The groups will discuss the president’s efforts to find a balanced approach to reduce the deficit and avoid the devastating effects of the sequester along with the discussion of the president’s approach to comprehensive immigration reform and how it fits into our broader economic agenda," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
See the full list of participants below:
Ken Bentsen, SIFMA
Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Roger Dow, U.S. Travel
Tom Gavin, ITI
Frank Keating, ABA
Sandy Kennedy, Retail Industry Leaders Association
Bill Miller, Business Roundtable
Rob Nichols, Financial Services Forum
Tim Pawlenty, Financial Services Roundtable
Rey Ramsey, TechNet
Matt Shay, National Retail Federation
Kristie Arslan, National Association of the Self-Employed
Rhett Buttle, Small Business Majority
Steve Caldeira, Internal Franchise Organization
Bill Daley, Main Street Alliance
Dan Danner, National Federation of Independent Business
Connie Evans, Association of Enterprise Opportunity
Ann Sullivan, Women Impacting Public Policy
Karen Kerrigan, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
Todd McCracken, National Small Business Association
Sam McClure, National Gay and Lesbian Chamber
Bryan McGannon, American Sustainable Business Council
John Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Council
Diane Tomb, National Association of Women Business Owners
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