Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate
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Excerpt from Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate: One Hundred Fourth Congress First Session on S. 141 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:08 a.m., in room SD-430, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator James Jeffords, presiding. Present: Senators Jeffords, Frist, DeWine, Ashcroft, Gorton, Kennedy, Pell, Simon, and Mikulski. Opening Statement of Senator Jeffords Senator Jeffords. [presiding.] The committee will come to order. First of all, Senator Kassebaum would like very much to be here and had planned to be, but she has been taken ill with one of those nasty bugs that is roaming the country and so is unable to come in this morning, and she asked me to chair the hearing this morning. We will follow the normal rules, where I will make a brief opening statement, and then I will turn to the Democrats to make an opening statement for the minority, and then we will hear from our panels and then continue with the normal process of questioning. I want to welcome you all here on behalf of myself and Senator Kassebaum. Today, the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources will hear testimony on S. 141, the David Bacon Repeal Act. I expect that the excellent witnesses that we have assembled will provide us with meaningful insight on the status of the Davis-Bacon in the year 1995. The Davis-Bacon Act is a Depression-era law that requires contractors on Federal construction projects valued at over $2,000 to pay their workers not less than the level of wages found by the Department of Labor to be prevailing in the particular area. Experience tells us that these prevailing wages often exceed the market wage rates that apply to similar construction projects not carried out under Government contracts. During my years in Congress, I have generally been a supporter of the fundamental purpose of the Davis-Bacon Act, which incidentally was put forward by Republicans back in the early years of the Depression. That purpose is to prevent the Federal Government from undercutting local wages and working conditions. However, I have also recognized the need for reform of the Act to prevent the Federal Government from paying a premium above local wage and benefit scales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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