Governor Corbett’s third budget proposal continues a restraint in pubic spending that over the past two years eliminated a $4.2 billion deficit without raising taxes. “We stopped our fiscal cliff before it even had a name,” Governor Corbett said in his address before the General Assembly on February 5. “And we didn’t do it by ...
The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association announced its support for Governor Corbett’s 2013-14 budget. “Governor Corbett’s budget plan sets the course for expanding Pennsylvania’s economic growth,” said PMA Executive Director David N. Taylor. “It continues his leadership of fiscal discipline and recognizes that private sector job growth is essential for the future prosperity of our commonwealth.” In ...
One Down, One to Go!
January 22, 2013 | Regulatory Reform | Workforce/Education
The only things standing in the way of the private management of the Pennsylvania Lottery are reviews by the Attorney General, Treasurer, and Auditor General. They each have 30 days to review Governor Tom Corbett’s decision to hand the administration of the Lottery over to Camelot Global Services. Their review is limited to the scope ...
By: Dave Taylor, Executive Director, PMA The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, and on behalf of Pennsylvania’s manufacturing employers, emphatically supports voluntary union membership and an end to coercive payments to unions in our commonwealth. Because of the ongoing stalemate in Washington DC, I see little chance in the coming years to improve America’s economic competitiveness with ...
The 2013-14 legislative session, with 23 new lawmakers, began on January 1 under a constitutional requirement that swearing in occur the first Tuesday in January. The new members will have little time to adjust to the rules and routine as they will have to embrace transportation funding, liquor privatization, another tight budget, and we at ...
Governor Tom Corbett announced on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, that Pennsylvania will be one of more than 30 states that will allow the federal government to operate its expanded health exchange. In recent testimony made before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance ...
EPA Regulations Will Severely Harm Pennsylvania’s Economic Growth
November 28, 2012 | Energy | Regulatory Reform
New Report Details the Significant Economic Impact of Questionable EPA Regulations on Pennsylvania Harrisburg, PA — November 28, 2012 – The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) released a new study today by ndp|consulting, A Critical Review of the Benefits and Costs of EPA Regulations on the U.S. Economy, which ...
Pro-Growth Agenda Primed for Early Approval
November 14, 2012 | Business Tax Relief | Regulatory Reform | Workforce/Education
Lawmakers sworn in on January 1st to kick off the 2013-14 legislative session have an opportunity to act with no delay on a pro-growth agenda already vetted by industry, labor, and both political parties. The agenda was approved in August by the Governor’s Manufacturing Advisory Council (GMAC).
Full Federal and PA Election Results
November 07, 2012
Full federal election results can be found here: http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results For full Pennsylvania election results, click here: http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ More election information: http://www.bipac.net/results_by_state.asp?g=PMA&s=pa
PA Steel Alliance Notches a Win With New Law
November 01, 2012 | Regulatory Reform
A new law that will eliminate what the bill’s sponsor calls a “ridiculous amount of paper work,” under the 1978 Steel Products Procurement Act, is a victory for the Pennsylvania Steel Alliance – a management/labor coalition working to keep steel jobs in America. “We worked very closely with the bill’s sponsor, State Rep. John Baer ...