Business Roundtable ramps up permitting push

With Daniel Lippman

FIRST IN PI — BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE RAMPS UP PERMITTING PUSH: The Business Roundtable, whose membership comprises the country’s top corporate executives, is stepping up its campaign for a bipartisan permitting overhaul amid haggling over a potential breakthrough on the issue as part of talks to avoid a federal default.

— The business group is putting six-figures into an ad and lobbying blitz stressing the urgency of permitting reforms, which began prior to the…