Throwback Thursday: Capitol Hill Memories
A front page article from the April 11, 1983, issue of National Home Center News, the precursor of Hardware + Building Supply Dealer, shows a group of lumberyard owners and operators in the office of Senator John Tower (R-Tex).
There’s Tower himself, sitting behind his desk, listening carefully to the interests of the lumber industry and the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association. (To see the NLBMDA’s current National Policy Agenda, click here.)
The top legislative priority, according to the report, was establishing something called “Mortgage Retirement Accounts,” a variation of IRAs that would allow tax-exempt saving toward down payment on a first home or mortgage prepayment of a current home.
Making the case in Tower’s office were Henry Herder, president of the Texas Lumbermen’s Association; Fred Crozier, VP of Joe Howard Lumber; and Leon Mellow, president of Wiener Lumber.
Other NLBMDA talking points from 1983 were opposition to leveling a countervailing duty on Canadian lumber and support for bankruptcy reform.
Tower died in a plane crash in 1991.
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The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association will host its 2018 Legislative Conference March 19-21 in Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.
There’s Tower himself, sitting behind his desk, listening carefully to the interests of the lumber industry and the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association. (To see the NLBMDA’s current National Policy Agenda, click here.)
The top legislative priority, according to the report, was establishing something called “Mortgage Retirement Accounts,” a variation of IRAs that would allow tax-exempt saving toward down payment on a first home or mortgage prepayment of a current home.
Making the case in Tower’s office were Henry Herder, president of the Texas Lumbermen’s Association; Fred Crozier, VP of Joe Howard Lumber; and Leon Mellow, president of Wiener Lumber.
Other NLBMDA talking points from 1983 were opposition to leveling a countervailing duty on Canadian lumber and support for bankruptcy reform.
Tower died in a plane crash in 1991.
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The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association will host its 2018 Legislative Conference March 19-21 in Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.