Charles Norwood: “what would the American public say about Congress if we tried to exclude 90 percent of American workers from Government…”

“what would the American public say about Congress if we tried to exclude 90 percent of American workers from Government contracts? They would have our heads, and rightly so. But with a stroke of his pen the President wants to do just that, to pay off his friends at the AFL-CIO. The President wants to sign an Executive order that would make sure that all the hard-earned tax dollars Americans send to Washington for Federal construction projects go only to union contractors. It does not matter if a nonunion contractor can do a better or a less expensive job. It does not matter that this order would exclude 90 percent of the working families of this country. That is just too bad. Only union contractors will get your tax dollars, even if it costs more than a nonunion firm. Does that make any sense? Of course not, but apparently the President thinks it is more important to line the pockets of the union bosses. Mr. Speaker, I urge the President to reconsider this absurdly unfair, costly, and absurdly un-American order.”