Chamber names Young government leader of the year
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Sen. Todd Young is being recognized for his leadership by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce as the 2023 Birch Bayh-Richard Lugar Government Leader of the Year.
The chamber calls Young “a true problem-solver to build consensus and get things done” and credits his work finding compromise with Democrats to pass the CHIPS and Science Act.
“Senator Young is a true public servant in every sense of the word,” Indiana Chamber President and CEO Kevin Brinegar said in a news release. “What he helped accomplish with the ‘CHIPS Act’ is so far reaching and really will benefit not only America but the whole western world.”
The CHIPS Act, which looks to boost semiconductor manufacturing and domestic high-tech research, was signed into law in August 2022. Young’s Endless Frontier Act was combined with CHIPS for America Act.
“Reshoring our manufacturing capacity of semiconductors is essential if we want to wean ourselves off of dependency on countries that either don’t share our values or might harm our interests in the future,” Young said. “I think it’s really important that we remember the CHIPS and Science Act is about a lot more than chips. The whole ‘Science’ component of this legislation is focused on a host of other technologies.”
Young is serving a second term in the Senate after winning re-election last year. Prior, he represented Indiana’s 9th District in the U.S. House of Representatives for six years. He currently serves on the U.S. Senate Committees on Finance; Foreign Relations; Commerce, Science & Transportation; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
The senator will be honored with the award at the Chamber’s annual awards dinner Nov. 14 at the Indiana Convention Center.