The resulting disparities in employment create a demand for affirmative action, another ill-suited and ill-advised big government program.

The most compelling reason to repeal Davis-Bacon is to benefit to the American taxpayer.

The Davis-Bacon Act drives up the cost of federal construction costs by as much as 50 percent.

I, therefore, urge all my colleagues to join me in supporting the Davis-Bacon Repeal Act of 1999.

For more than sixty years, this congressionally-created monstrosity has penalized taxpayers and the most efficient companies while crushing the dreams of the most willing workers.

Americans pay a huge price in lost jobs, lost opportunities and tax-boosting cost overruns on federal construction projects every day Congress allows Davis-Bacon to remain on the books.

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.

The section of this bill prohibiting the federal government from using identifiers to monitor private transactions is necessary to stop schemes such as the attempt to assign every American a 'unique health identifier'.

This act forbids the federal government from establishing any national ID cards or establishing any identifiers for the purpose of investigating, monitoring, overseeing, or regulating private transactions between American citizens.

Forcing parents to register their children with the state is more like something out of the nightmares of George Orwell than the dreams of a free republic which inspired this nation's founders.

Perhaps the most important part of the Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act is the section prohibiting the use of the Social Security number as an identifier.

The Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act halts the greatest threat to liberty today: the growth of the surveillance state.