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• NAM President John Engler Urgers Quick Senate Action On Highway Trust Fund - (HTML)
  
• NAM Labor Day Report Finds Exports Offset Housing Downturn - 8/28/2008 (HTML)
  
• Engler in Financial Times: American Industry Can Stay Ahead of China - 8/18/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Dismayed By New WTO Industrial Trade Text - 8/14/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Small Manufacturer Urges President to Increase Domestic Energy Supplies - 8/13/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Calls Surge in Exports "Phenomenal" - 8/12/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Urges Homeland Security Department to Honor Congressional Request for Pilot Program - 8/6/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Applauds FCC Efforts to Reform Intercarrier Compensation - 8/6/2008 (HTML)
  
• Letter to the FCC Regarding Intercarrier Compensation Reform - 8/6/2008 (PDF)
  
• NAM Recognizes Illinois Rep. Melissa Bean for Strong Support of Free Trade Agreements - 8/4/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Announces Coalition for Environmental Trade Agreement - 8/4/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Says Abercrombie-Peterson Bill Will Increase Domestic Energy Supply and Lower Costs - 8/4/2008 (HTML)
  
• WTO Geneva Meeting Shows Divides Still Too Broad - 7/29/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAMA Sectorals Essential for Balanced Outcome - 7/29/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Says Deal Not Possible Without Reciprocity - (HTML)
  
• NAM Thanks House Legislators for Restoring $8 Billion to Highway Trust Fund - (HTML)
  
• NAM Challenges Ministers to Vote for Trade Liberalization - (HTML)
  
• Second Quarter NAM/Industry Week Index Shows Manufacturers Less Optimistic - (HTML)
  
• Study Shows Rising Structural Costs - 09/29/2006 (HTML)
  
• EFCA: See Who Voted to Defend Democracy - 03/01/2007 (HTML)
  
• In Search of Skilled Workers... Op-Ed by Business Champion and NAM Member, Erick Ajax - 05/04/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Welcomes Nominees Troy and Weems To Serve at Health and Human Services - 05/04/2007 (HTML)
  
• Action Needed To Preserve Workers’ Right to Private Ballot - 05/09/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Hails Introduction of Bipartisan R&D Credit Legislation - 05/03/2007 (HTML)
  The R&D tax credit serves as a crucial driver of R&D investment location decisions.
• NAM State Associations Group - Annual Meeting Highlights - 05/10/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Hails Introduction of Bipartisan Death Tax Bill - 05/17/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Warns Against Any Rollback of 2005 Energy Act - 05/23/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Statement on Senate Banking Committee’s Legislation Addressing Currency Manipulation - 06/12/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Develops Manufacturing Profiles for Each Congressional District - 06/13/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Regrets U.S. Decision on China’s Currency - 06/13/2007 (HTML)
  
• Manufacturers and U.S. Department of Energy Pledge to Increase Industrial Energy Efficiency - 06/12/2007 (HTML)
  NAM President John Engler and U.S. Department of Energy Secretary speak during a news conference announcing a new partnership to increase energy efficiency in the manufacturing sector.
• NAM Hails IMF Revision on Exchange Rate Misalignment - 06/19/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Will Advocate Preservation of Existing Ozone Standard - 06/21/2007 (HTML)
  
• Congressional Budget Office Addresses Rising Cost of Health Care - 06/20/2007 (HTML)
  On Tuesday, June 19, Dr. Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) spoke at the NAM’s Washington, DC headquarters regarding the rising cost of health care. Peter highlighted that currently health care spending is greater than 15 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Among other things, Peter suggested that the payment system needs to be tied to “pay for value” and not “pay for performance.” In an effort to bend the curve in health care spending, the CBO is hiring
• NAM Welcomes FMLA Report Documenting Employer Challenges - 06/27/2007 (HTML)
  
• Senate Defeat of Anti-Democracy Bill a Victory For All Employees - 06/21/2007 (HTML)
  NAM President John Engler delivers a call to action regarding EFCA legislation that will strip away an employee's right to federally supervised, secret ballot elections during union organizing drives.
• NAM and Skills USA Announce Alliance To Prepare More Students for Manufacturing Career Leadership - 06/29/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Statement on TPA Renewal - 06/29/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Amicus Brief in Stoneridge Case Warns Against Expansion of Securities Litigation - 08/15/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Statement on Unanimous Vote For Peru Agreement - 09/25/2007 (HTML)
  
• Climate Change Study Shows Job Losses, Higher Energy Prices - 03/13/2008 (HTML)
  New NAM-ACCF study highlights National and 50-state economic impacts of Lieberman-Warner climate change bill.
• TPA Expiration Limits U.S. Export Opportunities - 07/02/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Urges U.S.-China Cooperation for Safe Imports - 07/18/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Letter Opposes Tax Hike on Foreign Direct Investment - 07/26/2007 (PDF)
  
• NAM Urges Congress To Advance Internet Tax Moratorium Bill - 07/26/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Presses for Tax Policy that Promotes Job Creation and Economic Growth - 07/26/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Congratulates Bush and Congress for Bipartisan Excellence in Technology Bill - 08/09/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Key Vote Letter in Opposition to Energy Bills, H.R. 3221 and H.R. 2776 - 08/03/2007 (PDF)
  
• Video: 90 Seconds with the NAM - 07/30/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Applauds Bipartisan Legislation Boosting Future Competitiveness - 08/03/2007 (HTML)
  
• Investors' Business Daily: Energy Ills Threaten U.S. Manufacturers - 08/06/2007 (HTML)
  Op-ed by NAM President John Engler in the Investors' Business Daily.
• Atlantic’s Fallows Sees China as Posing Economic Benefit, Challenges to U.S. - 08/17/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM to Convene Industry Coalition to Push for a Safe and Secure Infrastructure System - 08/08/2007 (HTML)
  
• 2007 NAM Labor Day Report: Wages on the Rise - 08/28/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Op-Ed on Family and Medical Leave Act on Forbes.com - 09/12/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Says Anti-Counterfeiting Legislation Protects U.S. Businesses and Workers From IPR Theft - 09/18/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Letter to Senate, September 28, 2007 - 09/28/2007 (PDF)
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• The NAM Sandy Trowbridge Award - 10/03/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM President Hails Bipartisan Passage of Peru Trade Agreement - 12/04/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Testimony Calls for Stronger, Vibrant CPSC - 10/04/2007 (HTML)
  
• Infrastructure Holds the Spotlight in the Fall Issue of Manufacturing Leadership - 10/10/2007 (PDF)
  
• NAM Joins USTR, Other Business Groups in New Intellectual Property Rights Initiative - 10/23/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Has Mixed Reaction to Tax Overhaul Plan - 10/29/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Chairman Chuck Bunch Talks Energy, Manufacturing in WSJ Interview - 10/29/2007 (HTML)
  
• Virginia Launches Dream It. Do It. As Solution to Skilled Worker Shortages - 10/30/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM’s Timmons Discusses CPSC legislation with Bloomberg TV - 10/31/2007 (HTML)
  The National Association of Manufacturer's Senior Vice President Jay Timmons appears on Bloomberg's Money & Politics Program about Consumer Products Safety Commission.
• China Yielding on Subsidies Shows Progress in Trade Relationship - 11/30/2007 (HTML)
  
• IPR Bill is a Major Step Toward Protecting Innovation and Consumer Safety - 12/05/2007 (HTML)
  
• North Carolina Manufacturer Testifies About Regulatory Burdens - 12/06/2007 (HTML)
  
• Environmental Trade Proposal Makes Climate-Friendly Technologies More Affordable - 12/02/2007 (HTML)
  
• Fed's Rate Cut Benefits Manufacturers - 12/11/2007 (HTML)
  
• Manufacturers' Risks and Rewards Accelerate in Global Supply Chain, Says New Study - 12/19/2007 (HTML)
  Click the image above to read the press release and global supply chain study.
• Rising Oil Prices Obscure Improving Trade Pattern - 01/11/2008 (HTML)
  
• Weaker Revised WTO NAMA Text is Still a Framework for Doha Round Negotiations - 02/14/2008 (HTML)
  
• Trade Deficit Shrinks as Manufactured Exports Surge - 02/14/2008 (HTML)
  
• House Mental Health Parity Mandate Much Too Broad - 03/06/2008 (HTML)
  
• Senior USTR Official to Join NAM - 03/06/2008 (HTML)
  
• DeRocco Named President of Manufacturing Institute - 03/06/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Issue Advisory – Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement - 03/25/2008 (HTML)
  Click on the Image Above to View.
• Peru Trade Agreement Shows Results of Bipartisanship - 12/14/2007 (HTML)
  
• Surge in Inflation Supports Need to Increase Energy Supply - 12/14/2007 (HTML)
  
• Congress Set to Leave Manufacturers a Lump of Holiday Coal - 12/18/2007 (HTML)
  
• NAM Statement Concerning Treasury and Chinese Currency - 12/19/2007 (HTML)
  
• Chairman Dingell's CPSC Bill Strengthens Consumer Safety - 12/19/2007 (HTML)
  
• Manufacturers Hopeful Treasury Study Sparks Discussion on Taxes & Competitiveness - 12/20/2007 (HTML)
  
• Dream It. Do It. SE Indiana Shares In $38 Million Grant from the Lilly Endowment - 12/13/2007 (HTML)
  Click to Find Out More About Dream It. Do It.

• NAM President John Engler's Article on Infrastructure in US Industry Today - 01/14/2008 (PDF)
  
• Michigan, Manufacturing Outlook Highlights NAM Chief Economist's Appearance on CNBC - 01/14/2008 (HTML)
  Click here to watch an interview with NAM Chief Economist Dave Huether as he discusses manufacturing and the NAM's '08 Economic Outlook on CNBC's "Keeping America Great."
• Report Highlights Need to Increase Investment in Nation's Infrastructure - 01/15/2008 (HTML)
  
• Supreme Court Protects Business Against Excessive Lawsuits - 01/15/2008 (HTML)
  Click the image above to read the press release about the decision
• NAM Releases Economic Forecast & Plan for Growth - 01/23/2008 (PDF)
  
• NAM Executive Vice President Jay Timmons Discusses American Manufacturing on CSPAN - 01/24/2008 (HTML)
  NAM’s Executive VP makes the case for American manufacturing on CSPAN. Click to watch the video.
• Heritage Expert Talks State of the Union and the Politics of Economic Stimulus - 01/25/2008 (HTML)
  Heritage Foundation official Brian Darling gives a snapshot of the '08 economy on this week's America's Business vodcast. To listen, click the player above.
• NAM Recommends Tax Proposals to Quickly Boost Economic Growth - 01/18/2008 (HTML)
  To read more about the NAM's Plan for Economic Growth, click the image above.
• Durable Goods Report Confirms Importance of Free Trade Agreements - 01/29/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Chief Economist Says Sluggish GDP Underscores Need for Economic Package - 01/30/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM President Engler Says Manufacturers Support Bush's Focus on Economic Growth - 01/29/2008 (HTML)
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• NAM Says First Job Decline in 53 Months Signals Economy Stuck in Low Gear - 02/01/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Amicus Brief Argues Against Expansion of Public Nuisance Lawsuits into Product Liability - 01/31/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Strongly Supports U.S. Entry into P-4 Group Investment & Financial Services Negotiations - 02/04/2008 (HTML)
  
• Business Leaders Team Up for Tax Relief - 02/04/2008 (HTML)
  Click here to learn more about the plan to stimulate economic growth by reducing the capital gains tax on business.
• NAM Supports House Bill Clarifying Rules for Taxing Out-Of-State Businesses - 02/08/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Discusses Excessive Punitive Damages on CNBC - 02/27/2008 (HTML)
  NAM Dep. General Counsel Quentin Riegel discusses the punitive damages against Exxon stemming from the 1989 oil spill.
• NAM Op-Ed on the Global Economy on Industryweek.com - 02/13/2008 (HTML)
  The more American manufacturers can sell to the 73% of the world economy outside our borders, the better our county will be able to withstand periodic troubles in the domestic economy.
• NAM Challenges Constitutionality of Member Disclosure Law - 02/06/2008 (HTML)
  To learn more about the case, National Association of Manufacturers v. Taylor, click the image above.
• Economic Stimulus Includes Tax Incentives for Business - 02/13/2008 (PDF)
  Economic Stimulus Includes Tax Incentives for Business (click for details)
• Latest NAM Economic Report Details Manufacturing Slowdown - 02/20/2008 (HTML)
  
• NAM Calls on Congress to Modernize the Health Care System - 02/22/2008 (HTML)
  To learn more about the Health IT initiative, click the image above.
• NAM Discusses Excessive Punitive Damages on CNBC - 02/26/2008 (HTML)
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• Rep. Artur Davis Discusses Manufacturing on America's Business - 02/29/2008 (HTML)
  Davis discusses trade deals, worker training and other steps to keep manufacturing strong and also expresses his thoughts concerning the presidential candidate race.
• State of the U.S. Economy and Manufacturing, May 2008 - 02/19/2008 (PDF)
  Find out more about the state of the U.S. economy in this NAM report.
• NAM President John Engler Commentary: Free Trade Pacts are Good for Ohio - 02/29/2008 (HTML)
  The unrestrained attacks against free trade are reaching a deafening pitch as Ohio's presidential primary draws near. Click the image above for more on NAFTA.
• Manufacturers Join President Bush in Pushing for Passage of Colombia Trade Agreement - 03/12/2008 (HTML)
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• Manufacturers Congratulate Senate on Passage of Improved CPSC Bill - 03/06/2008 (HTML)