Outreach to the Administration and Congress

NAHB’s efforts to address lumber price volatility and building material supply chain issues include ongoing outreach to the White House, federal agencies and Congress. NAHB is calling on the Biden Administration and the 117th Congress to develop short- and long-term solutions to these issues.

Biden Administration

• NAHB Meeting with White House Officials to Seek Solutions to Lumber and Supply Chain Crisis (March 14, 2022)
• NAHB Letter to President Biden re. Reaching a New Softwood Lumber Agreement with Canada (Dec. 3, 2021)
• NAHB Letter to President Biden re. Lumber and Supply Chain Issues (Oct. 6, 2021)
• NAHB Meeting with Canada’s Top Trade Official on New Lumber Trade Deal (July 21, 2021)
• White House Summit on Supply Chain Challenges (July 16, 2021)
• NAHB Senior Officers Meeting with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (May 28, 2021)
• NAHB Meeting with White House staff from the Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council and the Office of the Vice President (April 29, 2021)
• NAHB Letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai (April 22, 2021)
• NAHB Letter to U.S. Forest Service (March 19, 2021)
• NAHB Letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (March 15, 2021)
• Coalition Letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (March 12, 2021)
• NAHB Letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (March 5, 2021)
• NAHB Letter to President Joe Biden (Jan. 29, 2021)

Congress

• NAHB Testimony before House Small Business Subcommittee on Supply Chain Issues (Oct. 20, 2021)
• NAHB Testimony at Congressional Hearing on Policies to Boost Housing Production (July 14, 2021)
• NAHB Chairman Calls for Increased Production at Congressional Lumber Forum (June 29, 2021)
• NAHB Statement for the Record: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Hearing on U.S. Trade Policy (May 13, 2021)

Additional Outreach

• Meeting with National Association of Attorneys General and NAHB Chairman (March 11, 2021)