By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone With just days to go until the Constitutional deadline of June 30th, lawmakers in Harrisburg appear to have a spending plan
As a companion to the mandatory budget negotiations, legislators have spent the Spring of 2019 looking at another issue dealing with the way the State regulates business. As part of
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone In almost every instance, calls for additional spending by Democrats have been met with protracted battles by legislative Republicans, guarding the
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone For years, Lancaster and Berks Counties have led the charge in promoting free and open contracting by maintaining ordinances that prohibit
By: Douglas M. Dvorchak, 2019 Chair of the Board, ABC Keystone Associated Builders and Contractors is taking their message of Free Enterprise and Merit Shop Construction to Washington D.C. Save
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone If even-numbered years where the Office of the President isn’t on the ballot are known as “off-year” elections, then elections in
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Every county within the Keystone region is controlled by two Republican county commissioners and one Democrat. So when there is political
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Just months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice issued subpoenas against several members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Every year, ABC members from across Pennsylvania come together in Harrisburg to take part in the advocacy program known as Free
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Next week, the House Labor & Industry Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Cox (R-Berks), will hear testimony on two laws related
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone This week, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) circulated a co-sponsorship memo to his House colleagues for legislation that would require the use
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Just a year ago, Senate Republicans held a more than comfortable margin in the 50-member state Senate, with 34 members. The number
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone At last week’s ABC Convention in Long Beach, CA, the ABC National office recognized various levels of commitment to advocacy among
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a landmark case involving the ongoing battle of public sector unions and their
By Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Things are really crazy right now. I’m just too swamped. What could I possibly do to help anyway? These are all
