News Release
« Back2009 One Voice Year-End Advocacy Review
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
On behalf of NTMA and PMA member companies and the metalworking industry, The Franklin Partnership (the One Voice lobbying firm) held hundreds of meetings in 2009 on Capitol Hill, with the Administration and with outside groups.
Washington Snapshot:
• Health Care Passes House, Senate
o Issues: Whether to include a public option and how to pay for reform
o House and Senate to reconcile differences in January
• Tax Relief Passed; Increases Planned
o Secured Net Operating Loss expansion
o Estate Tax resolution delayed
o Bonus depreciation; Section 179 expensing; R&D tax credit extensions pass House, pending in Senate
o Section 199 Domestic Production Credit increases to 9 percent in 2010
• Government Trying to Improve Access to Credit
• Labor Law Reform
o Card check successfully delayed
o Paid sick leave/FMLA expansion bill introduced
o Extension of COBRA benefits and subsidies
• Climate Change Stalls
o Bill passes House; slows in Senate/Copenhagen Summit
o EPA trying to preempt Congress and set Green House Gas emissions rule
• Trade Enforcement
o Currency manipulation bill pending
o Obama actions against China
See a detailed summary of One Voice activity on these issues.
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