On energy policy, The PHCC wanted freedom of choice for its customers and supported the representative Nick Langworthy“S (R-NY)” The Energy Choice Act “, a legislative template that would prohibit state or local regulation to prohibit an energy connection based on the fuel type used.
While the PHCC was both the Energy Star and Watersense programs for the programs of Energy Star and Watersens, the association also wanted legal legislation that would enable working contractors to provide the devices and systems that best meet their customers' needs and budgets.
On tax policy, An important concern was certain tax regulations that should take place, which would lead to automatic tax increases for many families and companies. The key under these provisions, Section 199a of the Tax Code (introduced 2017), the so-called “Pass-Through” determination, which allows the owners of sole proprietors, companies or partnerships, to deduct up to 20% of the income generated by the company.
Since PHCC represents so many companies in family ownership, the estate tax was an important topic (with hope that it will be reduced or eliminated), as well as a low corporation tax rate (or further reduction). For contractors who sell highly efficient devices, the preservation of credits or deductions, the energy -efficient buildings (25c and 179d) were also dealing.
To develop the workforce ,, The association and its members wanted to emphasize the desperate need for trained workers who have most contract companies and the incredible opportunities for young people in qualified trades. A four -year -old college is simply not the best way to prosperity.
For this purpose, the PHCC was strong for registered apprenticeship training programs and the financing of these programs by the “workforce innovation and opportunity act” 2014. The further important measures included the expansion of pell grants to short-term, qualified training and the restoration of the 529 college savings program as a “career savings program” by “support of freedom, in the freedom To invest tomorrow's labor law law ”.
Valentini hoped that the assembled association members would illustrate these topics with their own stories – that they would talk about their own companies and families and the challenges they were confronted.
He also asked the group to stick to the lobbyists' best practices: clothes to impress; Keep the focus on politics and not on politics; and be polite to the employees. “These young people,” said Valentini, “are remarkably well informed, not only about how the congress works, but in our industry. And remember that today's employee or Senator of tomorrow could be.”
Finally, he asked the members to stick to the three BS: short, be brilliant and gone.
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The main speaker of the conference was the former US Congressman Tom Davis(R-VA), who wrote more than 100 laws during his seven terms that became rightly. Davis is now working as a public spokesman and is a co-author of The partisan gap: Congress in crisis. His keynote presentation was sponsored by Bradford White.