Mike Kelly was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he has lived for more than 50 years. After graduating from Butler High School in 1966, Mike attended the University of Notre Dame on a football and academic scholarship. After college, Mike moved back to Butler to work at Kelly Chevrolet-Cadillac, Inc., a company founded by his father in the early 1950s. Mike took ownership of the dealership in the mid-1990s and expanded its operations to include Hyundai and KIA franchises.
“I look forward to working with the president and my colleagues in the House to put forward pro-growth policies that will create jobs and restore confidence in the American economy and in our political process”
Our nation is in the midst of one of the greatest economic downturns of our generation. With more than 23 million Americans out of work, underemployed, or who have given up looking for work altogether, we need to do everything in our power to create a climate for growth in order to get Americans working again.
We must enact common sense, pro-growth policies that give small businesses and entrepreneurs renewed confidence in our economy and remove the barriers to growth that stifle economic recovery and hamper job creation. These barriers include onerous government regulations that limit the private sector’s ability to invest, grow, and create jobs, as well as our nation’s $16 trillion debt which threatens our financial viability and our national security.
In order to address these barriers, I have and will continue to support an agenda that addresses our economic challenges, fosters innovation and investment, and helps job creators without raising taxes on working families and small business owners.