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Tim Ryan: “Those union dues, and let us make that quite clear, the argument against having Davis-Bacon involved in FEMA is that the…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2005
Those union dues, and let us make that quite clear, the argument against having Davis-Bacon involved in FEMA is that the money will go to union dues in those States. And 4.2 percent of the workers in Mississippi are union workers, and this administration is trying to give us a bunch of bunk that the FEMA money is going to go to union dues when only 4 percent of the workers are involved in unions. It is bunk.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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