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Austin Scott: This is what the law says: Adopted in 1931 by President Hoover as an emergency measure intended to help stabilize the…

On the recordAugust 2, 2007
This is what the law says: Adopted in 1931 by President Hoover as an emergency measure intended to help stabilize the construction industry and to encourage employment at fair wages, not less than those prevailing in the locality of the construction work and not to keep black people from working.
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Austin Scott
Republican · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Responding to assertions about the Davis-Bacon Act during a floor debate.

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