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GOVERNMENT
AFFAIRS
MEETINGS AND SEMINARS
2007 NPES Government Affairs
Winter Conference
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Long-time NPES Government
Affairs Committee members and
first-time attendees participated in the
2007 NPES Government Affairs
Winter Conference in Washington,
D.C. on February 14-15. The program
was free to all NPES members and
included a seminar on GSA Schedules
Program and Marketing to the
Federal Government, and several
networking events.
NPES members joined about 250
other guests at a breakfast sponsored
by the National Association of
Manufacturers (NAM) that featured
Vice President Dick Cheney.
The
Vice President commended those in
attendance for being the leaders of the
vital manufacturing sector of the
American free enterprise system. He
emphasized that manufacturing drives
the growth in the economy, gets more
productive each year, accounts for the
majority of U.S. exports, and by itself
would be the eighth largest economy
in the world.The Vice President cited five years
of uninterrupted economic growth
that has yielded 16% growth in GDP
and over seven million new jobs.
This, he attributed in large part to
the Bush Administration’s pro-growth
tax policies; of particular note were
reductions of the tax rate on capital
gains and capital cost recovery
policies that enhanced incentives for
businesses of all sizes to invest. He
noted the resulting $520 billion
increase in federal tax receipts in
the past two years as further evidence
of the efficacy of these tax policies
and good reason for them to be
made permanent.
The balance of Cheney’s remarks
touched on a number of specific
policy areas of interest to NPES
members, including: support for a
permanent R&D Tax Credit, energy
and trade policies to make U.S.
manufacturers more competitive in
the global economy, a comprehensive
health care agenda of Health Savings
Accounts, Association Health Plans and
tax reforms designed to make health
care more accessible and affordable to
all Americans, and support for workers’
rights to secret ballots in elections to
form unions.
NPES members also attended an
NAM sponsored breakfast that featured
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), and
Representatives Melissa Bean (D-8-IL),
and Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-11-OH).
Each spoke to the important roles
played by women in industry and
government as old stereotypes and
career barriers have fallen.
Ms. Christy Jackiewicz, Program
Analyst, General Services
Administration, Office of Small
Business Utilization, presented a
seminar on GSA Schedules Program
and Marketing to the Federal
Government, which featured an
overview of the GSA Schedule Program,
steps to getting started, benefits of the
program, and marketing strategies and
techniques for doing business with the
Federal Government. Click here to download the seminar materials.
Conference attendees were also
briefed on a range of topics including:
capital formation tax policy and the
prospects for tax reform, international
trade issues, the Bush Administration’s
Value-driven Health Care initiative, and
the President’s proposal to provide a
new standard deduction for health
insurance. NPES Government Affairs
Director Mark Nuzzaco also provided
information on recent improvements
to the law governing Health Savings
Accounts.
The briefings concluded with a
report on the activities of the Mail
Moves America coalition, which was
organized to counter various state “Do
Not Mail” initiatives. NPES is an active
participant in the coalition.
For more information contact
NPES Government Affairs Director
Mark J. Nuzzaco at phone: 703-264-
7235, fax: 703-620-0994, or e-mail:
mnuzzaco@npes.org.
2006 NPES Government Affairs
Committee Meeting
The
Government Affairs Committee met in Washington, DC February
8, 2006 to review and revise NPESs legislative and regulatory
agenda for the second session of the 109th Congress. The committee
discused economic policy and tax reform; statute of repose,
and other civil justice reform topics; trade policy; postal
reform; rules and regulations implementing the Junk Fax Prevention
Act and related issues of importance to members. For more
information contact Government Affairs Director Mark J. Nuzzaco
at 703/264-7235, or e-mail mnuzzaco@npes.org.
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