Author: TMA Media

IL Congressman discusses tariffs with TMA

SCHAUMBURG – Illinois U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood visited online in February with TMA News Editor Fran Eaton and TMA Advocacy Team’s Rich Carter to discuss several issues of importance to the Association’s members. The topic that was most pertinent at the time was President Donald Trump’s propositions to resume the use of trade tariffs. 

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TMA Advocacy Update for February 10, 2025

A House lawmaker said something interesting to me last year. He said when he arrived as a new lawmaker, he thought there would be huge coordination in Springfield among supermajority Democrats in each chamber and a Democrat Governor. After a while, he said, “I looked behind the curtain and there was no one there.” He was shocked there was no grand wizard planning in a coordinated way.

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TMA’s Supplier Network: Transforming needs and ideas into solutions and actions

TMA Associate members are businesses that offer services, equipment, machinery, or materials unique to companies that qualify as manufacturer members that are not normally performed by manufacturer members.

Affiliate members consist of companies providing services to manufacturer members by neither manufacturer nor Affiliate members.

Together, the Associates and Affiliates create TMA’s robust Supplier Network.

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