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Climate Legislation House Energy and Commerce Democrats leaders unveiled a sprawling climate bill that would have serious implications for the vinyl industry and other plastic manufacturers. The legislation includes many of the troublesome policies of the Break Free From Plastic bill from last year including pausing permitting...

President Joe Biden has tapped Katherine Tai, the lead advisor to the Chairman and Democratic Members of the Committee on Ways and Means, to be the next United States Trade Representative (USTR). Tai has spent a significant part of her career as a trade lawyer,...

Senate Environment and Public Works Moves Quickly on Infrastructure Packages Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) is planning a busy start to his committee’s agenda for the 117th Congress. Carper announced that his committee would be holding hearings and preparing to...

Senate Organization Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) have agreed to an organizing resolution for a 50-50 split in the Senate. The final power-sharing agreement approved by the chamber on Feb. 3 now allows Democrats to assume control of the...

As part of the Vinyl Institute’s (VI) Vinyl360 Pulse webinar series, we invited Chad Moutray, Chief Economist for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), to join us. Moutray provided us a 2021 economic outlook for manufacturing – and it was optimistic. If you can remember,...

On Jan. 20, Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States when he and Kamala Harris were sworn into office in front of the Capitol building that only two weeks prior was the scene of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. With Democrats controlling...

Presidential Transition On Jan. 7, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. The joint session to count electoral votes was delayed hours by protesters at the U.S. Capitol, incited by Trump’s months-long push to overturn the election. Lawmakers completed the...

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation.  If confirmed, Buttigieg will be trusted to usher Biden’s ambitious $1.3 trillion “Build Back Better” plan to invest and rebuild the U.S.’s infrastructure,...