May 31, 2012
The best and safest thing to do is to defeat the Flake amendment. That's kind of a standard. That's the surest way of protecting the executive order. I yield back the balance of my time.
Norman D. Dicks
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May 31, 2012
Reclaiming my time, I would just point out that the Department of Defense thinks the gentleman from Arizona's language is prohibitive, that it doesn't give them any leeway, that they must not do a project labor agreement. May I ask the…
May 31, 2012
Could we work out an agreement here that we could take the savings from the gentleman's amendment and use that to pay the workers, the half of 1 percent raise that is denied in this? Is there a way we could work this out?
May 31, 2012
It will be very brief. The Office of General Counsel of the Department of Defense says about the gentleman's amendment: If enacted, the attached provision would prohibit the Department from soliciting bids for FY13-funded construction…
May 31, 2012
The distinguished chairman--who does a great job, and we're trying to work together--if we understand this, a non-union shop can be considered for work under a project labor agreement. You don't have to be a union shop. So a non-union…
May 31, 2012
That was last year. H.R. 1. We remember it. It was 800 amendments, 600 on your side, 200 on our side.
May 31, 2012
I raise a point of order. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his point of order.
May 31, 2012
Let me just clear up a couple of things, especially what the gentleman from Texas just had to say. This may be something that will be hard for him to believe, but this is, as I understand it, from the Labor Department. A Davis-Bacon wage…
May 31, 2012
First of all I would like to commend Chairman Frelinghuysen, whom I've enjoyed working with both here and on the Defense Subcommittee, and Ranking Member Visclosky on their efforts to continue in the tradition of bipartisanship and…
May 31, 2012
They don't have to unionize. They just have to agree to the prevailing wage and other things that are part of the project labor agreement, but they don't have to be unionized.
May 31, 2012
I want to join in supporting this amendment and commend the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his hard work on this effort. I hope we can adopt this amendment unanimously. I appreciate the gentleman yielding.
May 31, 2012
Is it none of the funds made available by this act may be used to hire a new director of a national cemetery who is not a veteran?