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 ...
Republicans Have Advantage In Holding House Majority
October 25, 2012
GOP likely to hold House, 95 races in either “Competitive” or “Tossup” category on our House Race Ratings…
HARRISBURG (Oct. 14) – U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who spent nearly 50 years as a public figure making national history, died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia at the age of 82 due to complications from non-Hodgkins cancer.
Tom Smith Surges in Senate Race
October 17, 2012
Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Tom Smith, has two simple campaign strategies: emphasize his business background to voters and highlight the voting record of incumbent U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Lackawanna). “He votes with the President over 90 percent of the time,” Smith said in an interview after speaking at PMA headquarters on October 15. ...