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CATA Attends Meetings with Key Legislators on Capitol Hill

Friday, September 27, 2024 9:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


Last week, CATA Chairman Jason Roberts, CATA President Jennifer Morand, CATA EVP Chris Konecki, along with NADA Board Member Joe Massarelli (Liberty Auto City), traveled to D.C. to attend the annual NADA Washington Conference. It was a busy, successful couple days of meetings on Capitol Hill with key legislators and/or their Chief of Staff, including Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, Congressman Robin Kelly, Congressman Mike Quigley, and Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin.

The NADA briefed the CATA team on the key federal issues to relay to the legislators. The primary issues communicated were:

  1. FTC “Vehicle Shopping Rule” will overwhelm car buyers and small businesses with needless additional costs, paperwork (non-disclosure forms) and an overall lengthened sales process (estimated to be an additional 60-80 mins. longer than the current average time spent in a dealership). They urged members of Congress to cosponsor the FTC REDO Act to stop the flawed Vehicle Shopping Rule and avoid needlessly imposing significant burdens and costs on both the consumer and small business dealers.
  2. Legislators were made aware of the dealers’ stance on the current EPA De Facto EV Mandate which reaches too far and too fast. The EV infrastructure simply isn’t in place to require 56% of all new vehicle sales to be electric by 2032. Furthermore, the current EV prices are too high for the average consumer. The dealers are behind EVs and have already invested in EV infrastructure in their showrooms and in personnel to train them on the latest technology as it relates to sales and service, but they will sell what the market demands. And, at least for now given the lack of infrastructure and high EV prices, EVs just aren’t what the market is demanding.   

The team did a wonderful job communicating these messages that were heard loud and clear in Washington!

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