This is how George Miller, an effective but largely unsung congressman, beat Bush...George Miller, a little-heralded California congressman, used an obscure provision of a 1976 law to force Bush to reverse his suspension of the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act -- a law requires federal contractors to pay workers the prevailing wage in the community where they work, and it would have ensured that companies like Halliburton that were tasked with doing post-hurricane clean-up work couldn't reduce wages offered to the newly destitute citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi.] |
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