The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premiere gathering of public policy conservatives each year in the Keystone State. It is the largest and longest-running of the state-based conservative conferences regularly attracting a long list of conservative elected officials, scholars, journalists, and activists for three days of speeches, panel presentations, workshops, and networking.
Registration for the 2026 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is NOW OPEN at www.paleadershipconference.org. (Please note the Early Bird discount rate is built into the registration fee so there is no need to enter a discount code as it will be automatically applied. The PLC web site also includes a brief video tutorial to help you navigate the registration system.)
This year’s Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will provide attendees with an expanded menu of workshop sessions on Thursday and a new welcome reception on Thursday evening.
Workshop sessions include: From Community to the Capitol: Recruiting the Right Leaders; Stop Shapiro’s Tax Hikes; Getting Stuff Right: Protecting Life, Families & Religious Liberty; Are Your Ready to Run: Questions to Ask Yourself Before Running for Office; Show Me the Money: Putting the Fun in Fundraising; Faith & Politics: Appealing to Conservatives of Faith; Social Media: Battling the Keyboard Warriors; Public Speaking: Overcoming the World’s # 1 Fear; Capturing the Youth Vote: Engaging a New Generation: The Real Nature of Politics; Powering Pennsylvania: Energy Policy, Prices and Jobs; Roadmap to an America First Immigration System: Election Integrity & Litigation: Inside and Outside the Commonwealth; Pennsylvania’s Shifting Coalitions; A History of the Republican Party.
The 2026 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will feature five panel presentations including: The Health Care Check Up: Why Competition Beats Bureaucracy; Ain’t Got Stuff Done: Examining Governor Shapiro’s record; Ideas to Impacts: Entrepreneurship in Pennsylvania; Protect Women’s Sports; and Powering the Future: Energy and AI in Pennsylvania.
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Scott Perry brings a unique background of hard work, small business, military leadership and community involvement to the U.S. House of Representatives. He earned the privilege of serving the newly redistricted 10th District (Dauphin, part Cumberland, part York) in 2018, and presently serves on the House Committee on: Transportation & Infrastructure; Foreign Affairs: Oversight & Government Reform; and recently was selected by the Speaker of the House to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is also a member and former Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
Congressman Perry enlisted in the Army in 1980, and eventually on to Officer Candidate School where he served as class president. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, and after branch-transferring to Army Aviation, he eventually earned qualifications in almost every airframe in the Army’s rotary wing inventory (Huey, Cayuse, Kiowa, Cobra, Chinook, Apache, and Blackhawk), became a rated Instructor Pilot, and earned the Master Army Aviator badge. He’s commanded at the company, battalion and brigade levels; notably, commanding an Aviation Battalion deployed to Iraq Iraq from 2009-2010, during which he flew 44 combat missions and earned the Bronze Star. In 2011, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and was selected to attend the coveted United States Army War College, from which he earned a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies. After serving at the ultimate rank of Brigadier General for several years, Perry retired in 2019, upon nearly 40 years of military service to our Nation.
Perry’s service to his communities has included various organizations, to include but not limited to the Carroll Township Planning Commission, Jaycees, the American Legion, the VFW, and Lions Club International.
Scott and his wife, Christy, are the proud parents of two daughters.