WASHINGTON – The Beer Institute named eight members of the USA Congress as its “2022 Beer Champions” for his or her management in supporting federal insurance policies that support U.S. brewers, beer importers and beer business suppliers. The Beer Institute acknowledged them for combating for beer business coverage priorities like bringing readability to the aluminum pricing course of, securing everlasting excise tax aid for brewers and pushing for a deferment on federal excise taxes on brewers and importers in the course of the pandemic.
“A honest thanks to our Beer Champions whose ongoing management has supplied important help towards the challenges our business is dealing with,” mentioned Gavin Hattersley, chairman of the Beer Institute and president and CEO of Molson Coors Beverage Firm. “The U.S. beer business contributes $350 billion to the financial system and creates greater than 2 million jobs. These lawmakers have labored exhausting to combat towards the aluminum pricing course of, unfair federal excise tax and different points which might be threatening our business. We’re grateful for his or her partnership and hope to proceed working collectively in help of the beer business.”
The eight legislators acknowledged as 2022 Beer Champions are:
- Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Senator John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
- Consultant Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
- Consultant Ken Buck (R-CO)
- Consultant Rodney Davis (R-IL)
- Consultant Al Lawson (D-FL)
The Beer Institute acknowledged the 2022 Beer Champions at a reception on July 20.
The beer business helps tens of millions of well-paying American jobs in a variety of industries, together with farming, manufacturing, building, retail, the service business and extra. You may study extra concerning the beer business’s affect in every state at beerservesamerica.com.
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