Category Archives: Government Relations

IPC Government Relations Chair Highlights IPC Initiatives

March 16, 2012 – 2:29 pm

DDi Corporation CEO Mikel Williams joins Editor Andy Shaughnessy from Real Time with IPC to discuss his work as Chairman of the IPC Government Relations Committee. The Government Relations committee has recently completed a strategy prioritizing issues facing the industry. In this interview, Williams discusses IPC’s work on conflict metals and export controls reform. Williams recently [...]

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IPC Provides Update on SEC Conflict Minerals Rule

March 16, 2012 – 9:50 am

By Fern Abrams, IPC director of government relations and environmental policy U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro testified March 6 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. In response to a question from Congressman Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.), Shapiro stated that the conflict minerals rule “will have a phase [...]

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REMINDER: California’s Human Trafficking and Slavery Law Takes Effect January 1, 2012

November 30, 2011 – 10:25 am

On January 1, 2012, companies doing business in California that have annual gross global receipts in excess of $100 million will need to comply with California’s Human Trafficking and Slavery Law. The law requires companies to publicly disclose efforts to ensure their supply chains do not support human trafficking or slavery. The bill will have [...]

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Change and Constancy

September 1, 2011 – 8:03 am

September 1 IPC Review Editorial by IPC President Denny McGuirk By now, you may have heard the news that I am leaving IPC. My last day will be November 1. On one hand, I will remain part of our industry as I am leaving to become president of SEMI. On the other, I will be [...]

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A Quick Reference on Some Complex Issues

August 3, 2011 – 10:53 am

IPC President Denny McGuirk’s August 1 editorial from the IPC Intouch Member Newsletter: A recent study commissioned by the Small Business Administration found that annual regulatory compliance costs in the United States hit $1.75 trillion in 2008. Multiply that worldwide and the costs of regulation for the electronics industry alone are easily measured in tens [...]

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Taking Responsibility for Your Future: “If you’re not at the table, chances are you’re on it!”

July 5, 2011 – 12:02 pm

  By Denny McGuirk At the IPC Summit on American Competitiveness, RBP Chemical Technology President Mark Kannenburg put the importance of government relations in perspective. He said that in a perfect world, government policies, procedures, regulations, legislation and rules would be conducive to U.S. business success, so company leaders could focus all their energies on [...]

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IPC’s Tony Hilvers Comments on Recent Avnet Conflict Metals Editorial

May 10, 2011 – 9:24 am

Conflict Metals: Good Intentions Gone Tragically Bad I am concerned that the article “Avoid Conflict: Comply With Dodd-Frank” by Gerry Fay, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Solutions, Avnet Electronics Marketing is unduly optimistic about the electronics industry’s ability to immediately solve a long-standing social conflict that has resisted efforts by the International Conference on the [...]

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Mikel Williams’ Government Relations Update

April 25, 2011 – 2:16 pm

From Real Time With…IPC APEX Expo 2011 Mikel Williams, chair of the IPC’s Government Relations Committee, provides an update on the key issues facing the industry on the legislative front. He also gives Guest Editor Dan Feinberg a summary of upcoming government-related industry events. Watch the interview here.

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IPC Efforts to Repeal Burdensome EPA Proposal Results in Congressional Action

April 7, 2011 – 8:32 am

By Stephanie Castorina, IPC EHS manager IPC recently garnered Congressional support in our quest to stop EPA from imposing burdensome reporting requirements under the Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) inventory Update Reporting (IUR) proposed rule. On April 4, Representative Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and the Environment, and Representative John [...]

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SEC has underestimated cost of complying with proposed conflict minerals regulations by $263 million in first year

March 21, 2011 – 2:54 pm

By Fern Abrams, IPC Director of Government Relations and Environmental Policy This past summer, in response to human rights and non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) concerns that the mining of “conflict minerals” in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) provide funds supporting continuing violence and atrocities, Congress added language (Section 1502) to the U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street [...]

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