El Presidente's decision to suspend the Davis-Bacon Act in the Hurricane Katrina disaster zone was stunning. In effect, he said "We've decided to help you recover your losses by allowing huge corporations to pay you less, while they rake in the profits."
Now Rep. George Miller of California has introduced H.R. 3763, "To reinstate the application of the wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act to Federal contracts in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina." Some 171 members of the House have signed on as co-sponsors, none of them Republicans. The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, a committee that our very own Madame Virginia Foxx sits on (with ever increasing specific gravity). If she's sincere at all in her expressed concern for the people of the Gulf Coast, looks like she might want to pay them the prevailing wage as they rebuild their region.
Whaddya wanna bet?
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