How the Chamber's Donohue Changed the Fights Over Financial Regulation

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Thomas Donohue, who died yesterday at age 86, is best known for transforming the U.S. Chamber of Commerce into a force that had almost unmatched clout on Capitol Hill. But to those who worked with him, Donohue may have left a longer-lasting mark in financial regulation. 

During the time he led the chamber, from 1997 to 2021, the group became a pugnacious…