President Barack Obama announced the details of "Homestar," a Cash for Clunkers-like rebate program designed to entice Americans to make their houses more energy efficient. The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association said it supports the idea conceptually but says more work needs to be done. More
NLBMDA joined with more than two dozen other housing and business groups in urging President Barack Obama to work to remove a provision in the Senate health care bill that excludes most of the construction industry from language exempting small business from a mandate requiring they provide health insurance for their workers. More
Seven ouf of eight dealers who do installed sales believe there will be greater demand for their services, particularly for windows and entry doors, as the economy recovers, responses to a recent ProSales survey indicate. More
President Barack Obama signed into law Friday legislation that extends and expands the Net Operating Loss carryback tax provision and the homeowner tax credit. More
Montana LBM dealer Nancy Lien Griffin had an opportunity most lumberyard owners never get a chance to do: speak with the president of the United States. More
The House of Representatives in both Florida and Missouri have voted for measures designed to blunt the effect of the Employee Free Choice Act should the pro-union measure win passage in the U.S. Congress. The votes came as a pro-EFCA leader joined the Obama administration and a key U.S. senator in the battle switched from the Republican to the Democratic party. More
Forces on both sides of the war over the Employee Free Choice Act had strong opinions regarding President Obama's appointment of Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director of the pro-EFCA group American Rights at Work, to serve as senior advisor to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and as a liaison to Vice President Joe Biden's White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families. More
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., dealt what could be a fatal blow to the Employee Free Choice Act by declaring March 24 that he would not side with Democrats and end any potential filibuster over the bitterly divisive legislation. More
The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association on Jan. 16 sent to the Obama administration and Congress the group's Policy Agenda for 2009. NLBMDA backed efforts to help the housing industry recover, called for protection of innocent sellers from product liability lawsuits, and opposed a proposal to make union organizing easier. More
As the new president of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers... More
