The American Family Business Institute praised U.S. Rep.

Mike Kelly, R-3rd, for supporting family businesses and farms by co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation to permanently repeal the Federal Estate Tax.Kelly joins nearly 40 members of Congress who have signed the “Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act” that was originally sponsored by U.S. Reps Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Mike Ross

, D-Ark.“Representative Kelly is a champion for death tax repeal,” said institute president Dick Patten. “By supporting legislation that repeals the Federal Estate Tax, he is standing up for family business owners, farmers and entrepreneurs across Pennsylvania and America.”———Senior District Judge

Joseph O’Donnell was recertified as a member of Pennsylvania’s Unified Judicial System after completing his 2011 continuing legal education work.