Franklin Job Creator Honored By Joyce and Committee As Small Business Hero

Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) Wednesday brought Mr. Shawn Pulford, CEO of LB Water Service in Chambersburg, before a House Committee on Small Business panel highlighting "small business heroes." In his dialogue with the committee, Pulford testified about how the 2017 tax cuts are spurring growth across Franklin County and emphasized the need for Congress to pass an infrastructure package.

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Click here to watch Pulford discuss the benefits the 2017 tax cuts have had in Franklin County.

TRANSCRIPT

SHAWN PULFORD: We are benefiting from relief provided by the federal tax cuts as well. As we consider the south central region of Pennsylvania, which includes Congressman Joyce's district as well as our Chambersburg location, we can see economic development at work. The region is becoming home to manufacturing and distribution operations for many companies. We have witnessed the construction of 15 new warehouses, each exceeding one million square feet along the I-81 corridor from the Maryland line to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. We and other businesses have experienced a positive residual economic impact due to this increased activity.

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Click here to watch the exchange about infrastructure between Joyce and Pulford.

CONGRESSMAN JOYCE: I'd like you to address another issue that you briefly discussed in your presentation with us, Mr. Pulford. You talked about how your industry, how you company, how the heroes that you work with, would provide for us additional work in the crumbling infrastructure system. Our responsibility in the 116th Congress is to work and provide an infrastructure solution. Tell us how that impacts your business, please?

SHAWN PULFORD: It trickles down to every individual. If a city goes to open a fire hydrant and the fire hydrant doesn't work, it's broken, if it's been there for months, we need to address these problems. The quality of the drinking water and the fact that pipes are crumbling and its draining out, so maybe you lose 30% of your treated pure water goes out through leaks in the system. And I'm not saying this is across the board, but these are the big issues that are facing us and if we don't address them we aren't going to be able to attract people to come to our communities. If we don't increase the quality of life we are going to lose people out of our jurisdictions and our states and everything else. That's where the whole infrastructure bill is vital right now. And we see it. We're in the rust belt so we see it more than probably everybody else in the country right now.

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For his part, Joyce has continuously called to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent for individuals and small businesses and has expressed a willingness to work on bipartisan infrastructure reform.

Pulford is in his fourth year as CEO of LB Water Service, Inc. LB Water has been providing quality water and wastewater solutions to customers in south central Pennsylvania for decades and the company has grown from one sales office in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, to an organization with over 200 employees and eight different locations across Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Pulford was invited to Washington this week to help Joyce's committee bring a spotlight to andldquo;Small Business Week.andrdquo;