On the recordApril 30, 1997
An inspector general's report has blown this whistle on the Davis-Bacon Act, and that 1931 law by which the Labor Department drives up the cost of federally subsidized construction by requiring what are in effect union wages. A Federal audit of 800 wage survey forms used to calculate the local prevailing or union wage found that nearly two out of three forms contained significant errors and that deliberate misreporting activity may exist. It is an ideal situation for fraud and abuse, and there is an indictment out in Oklahoma for one of the fellows that our hearing brought to the light of the law enforcement.
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