VOTER REGISTRATION & ABSENTEE BALLOTS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 10.6 million private sector employees who were registered to vote in the last Presidential election DID NOT cast their ballots. The Census further reports that 29 percent of them – 3 million registered voters – said they did not vote because they were out of town (as is often the case for businessmen and women on a Tuesday), too busy, or had conflicting schedules.
These 3 million votes – had they been cast – could have changed the outcome of several key races. And absentee or early voting options would have made it possible for them to vote.
Tuesday, November 4 th – Election Day – is less than 12 weeks away. With both houses of Congress so evenly divided between the parties and pro and anti-business forces, the outcome of this election has tremendous implications for employers, entire industries including wholesale distribution, and for the economy as a whole.
It is vital that business people including wholesaler-distributors and their supply chain partners vote. In view of the effect government policy can have on your company and the way you manage it, it is simply a bad idea from a business perspective to leave any portion of the political power of our industry “on the table” in any election, particularly one as important as this one. To learn how to register to vote, learn about early voting procedures in your state, and to obtain an absentee ballot, go to: http://www.naw.org/govrelations/vote.php
Finally, please encourage your management team to register, to familiarize themselves with early and absentee voting procedures, and to vote. Share this message with your key executives and managers by forwarding it to them. Go to http://www.naw.org/govrelations/vote.php now.
HOUSE SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE
Small Business Economic Stimulus Full committee hearing on
"Economic Stimulus for Small Business: A Look Back and Assessing Need for Additional Relief."
Witnesses: William Myles of Myles & Myles Retirement Planners, Covington , Ky. ; Floyd Stoner, executive vice president for Congressional Relations and Public Policy at the American Bankers Assn.; David Oates, president of Oates Associates, Inc., Collinsville , Ill. ; Mark Zandi, chief economist of West Chester , Pa. ; and Rachelle Bernstein, vice president tax counsel of the National Retail Federation
Location: 1539 Longworth House Office Building . 10 a.m.
Contact: 202-226-3636 http://www.house.gov/smbiz
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
Middle Class Families' Economic Issues Full committee hearing on
"How Much More Can American Families Be Squeezed By Stagnant Wages, Skyrocketing Household Costs, And Falling Home Prices?"
Witnesses: Elizabeth Warren, professor of law at Harvard Law School ; Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute; Kristen Lewis, co-director of the American Human Development Project; and David Kreutzer, senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation
Location: 608 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 10 a.m.
Contact: 202-224-5171 http://jec.senate.gov
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