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Adhesive & Sealant Council, Inc.

Adhesive & Sealant Council, Inc. ASC Fall Convention & Expo Louisville, KY October 10, 2005 Patrick J. Cleary, Senior Vice President, Communications, NAM blog.nam.org. Hierarchy of Policy-Making. Fun Facts About Manufacturing:. Over One-eighth (13%) of G ross D omestic P roduct.

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Adhesive & Sealant Council, Inc.

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  1. Adhesive & Sealant Council, Inc. ASC Fall Convention & Expo Louisville, KY October 10, 2005 Patrick J. Cleary, Senior Vice President, Communications, NAM blog.nam.org

  2. Hierarchy of Policy-Making

  3. Fun Facts About Manufacturing: Over One-eighth (13%) of Gross Domestic Product • 80% > retail • 88% > construction, mining and agriculture • 175% > transportation and utilities

  4. Standing alone, it is: • The world’s 8th largest economy • Larger than the economies of: -Spain -Canada -South Korea and Mexico combined

  5. Manufacturing is responsible for nearly two-thirds (62%) of all U.S. exports of goods and services. • Manufacturing is responsible for three fifths of all industrial R & D • Manufacturing is responsible for 90% of all patents. -Agriculture: $60billion/yearly -Manufacturing: $60billion/monthly

  6. Manufacturing employs 14 million people

  7. Reduce the costs of doing business in the US • NAM Study: • 22% cost disadvantages vs. trading partners • Challenges: • Taxes • Health Care (1/6 of GDP) • Regulations: • --$180 billion cost of regulation • --$32 billion workplace • --Highest environmental costs

  8. Legal Costs (2% of GDP) Larger than the economies of: Hong Kong Hungary Vietnam Venezuela Portugal Peru Algeria Israel Romania Ireland Czech Republic Morocco Denmark Nigeria Chile Kazakhstan Norway Singapore Finland Belarus ……..and 173 others

  9. A level playing field with all trading partners • Vis a vis China, this means: -No currency manipulation -Respect for intellectual property -No illegal subsidies -Compliance with all WTO rules

  10. Five Steps of P2 WWW.NAM.ORG/P2 • Identify issues that matter to your company • Tell your employees how those issues affect them • Let them take action on those issues • Tell them where candidates and incumbents stand • Get them registered and to the polls

  11. Congressional Manufacturing Caucus Members108th Congress NAM Voting Record Chaka Fattah PA 0% Bob Filner CA 0% George Miller CA 0% Major R. Owens NY 0% Hilda L. Solis CA 0% John Tierney MA 0% nam.org/votingrecord

  12. Congressional Manufacturing Caucus Members108th Congress NAM Voting Record Robert E. Andrews NJ 5% Eliot L. Engel NY 5% Michael R. McNulty NY 5% David R. Obey WI 5% Lucille Royal-Allard CA 5% Tim Ryan NY 5% nam.org/votingrecord

  13. Congressional Manufacturing Caucus Members108th Congress NAM Voting Record Martin Olav Sabo MN 5% Jose E. Serrano NY 5% Nydia M. Velazquez NY 5% Richard Gephardt MO 8% Stephen Lynch MA 9% Melvin L. Watt NC 9% nam.org/votingrecord

  14. Making Progress South Dakota Tom Daschle 22% John Thune 95% South Carolina Fritz Hollings 10% Jim DeMint 88% North Carolina John Edwards 8% Richard Burr 95%

  15. Our Message • Manufacturing is critically important to the US economy and standard of living. • We are challenged as never before, here and abroad. • Before you vote/take action ask yourself “will this make US manufacturing more or less competitive?” • We will be watching how you vote and • We will be informing our employees.

  16. “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” -Pericles • “The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.” -Plato pcleary@nam.org/202.637.3124 blog.nam.org www.nam.org/P2

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