ABC NAMES BUCK MCKEON LEGISLATOR OF THE YEAR (06/24/2009)
Contact: Gail Raiman, (703) 812-2073                 For Immediate Release                           
             Gerry Fritz, (703) 812-2062                  June 24, 2009  

Washington, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today presented U.S. Congressman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R- Calif.) with its Free Enterprise Legislator of the Year award. Each year, during its Legislative Conference, ABC honors a member of Congress whose public service parallels the ideals upon which ABC was founded: the principles of full and open competition and the advancement of the free-market system.  

“Congressman McKeon is a great friend of ABC, the merit shop construction industry and a strong ally in Congress,” said Jerry Gorski, 2009 ABC national chairman and president of Gorski Engineering, Collegeville, Pa. “He has been on the frontline on issues that help advance free enterprise, and for that we are grateful.”  

In 2008, McKeon was ranking member on the House Committee on Education and Labor, the panel that oversees many issues important to ABC members. He also voted for ABC’s issues 100 percent of the time in the 110th Congress. In addition, he cosponsored both the Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 1176), which would ensure workers the right to a secret-ballot election when deciding whether to unionize, and the Green Jobs Improvement Act of 2009 (H.R. 2026), which would make nonunion training programs eligible for federal funding under the Green Jobs program.  

ABC members from across the nation are in Washington, D.C., June 23-25, to attend ABC’s 2009 Legislative Conference, which will feature remarks by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Republican Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Brit Hume, senior political analyst for FOX News Channel.                                                                

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Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is a national association with 79 chapters representing 25,000 merit shop construction and construction-related firms with 2 million employees. Visit us at www.abc.org.

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