Welcome to The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

• Candidates seeking a ChamberPAC endorsement are evaluated upon the basis of one or more of the following:

• Voting record (if an incumbent Member of the General Assembly);
• Responses to a Candidate Questionnaire, which is designed to measure compatibility with
Chamber positions, and/or;
• Interviews with staff or members of the ChamberPAC Board and/or Selection Committee.

• Candidate questionnaires are sent to open-seat candidates upon request or where the election of a pro-business candidate is either desired or possible. Section One of the Questionnaire seeks background information: education, employment, voting history, etc. Section Two lists and briefly describes key business issues and concerns. Candidates are asked to give their position on various issues –such as:

• Capital Stock-Franchise Tax (CSFT);
• Corporate Net Income Tax (CNI);
• Net Operating Loss (NOL) Provision;
• Local Tax Reform;
• Product Liability/Tort Reform;
• Workers' Compensation Reform;
• Health Care;
• Environmental laws and regulations, and;
• Unemployment Compensation Reform.

• Once endorsed, a candidate is eligible to receive direct financial support from ChamberPAC and "in-kind" services that target key business people in their Districts.