Three sections of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 3036) would extend the reach of the Davis-Bacon Act into private-sector construction. Under Davis-Bacon, Congress requires federal construction contractors to pay "prevailing" wages to prevent the government's buying power from forcing down wages of construction workers. These sections of the Lieberman-Warner bill, however, do not concern federal construction projects. Additionally, Davis-Bacon wages bear little relation to the wage rates that prevail in the marketplace.
In January 2017, a pro-life majority in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives and a President committed to defend innocent human life began pursuing an agenda to protect life from conception to natural death. In the past year, policymakers achieved a number of significant pro-life victories. But there is still much to be done in 2018 and beyond.
President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act included many damaging policies that increased deficit-financed government spending by nearly $2 trillion, stoking inflation to rates not seen in four decades. The new spending also triggers the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010,
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A new “action plan”REF from the Biden Administration purports to “strengthen and accelerate” the dysfunctional federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.