{"id":5323,"date":"2005-09-22T09:47:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2005-09-22T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T13:47:36","slug":"undoing-the-gulf-coast-wage-cut-now-with-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/undoing-the-gulf-coast-wage-cut-now-with-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Undoing the Gulf Coast Wage Cut — now, with momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The House Dems’ drive<\/a> to undo Bush’s executive order<\/a> suspending the Davis-Bacon Act is starting to pick up steam. Three developments of note:<\/p>\n

First, the number of cosponsors jumped yesterday from to 186<\/a>, as 15 House Dems jumped on board. This means 95% of the entire House Dem caucus has signed on to this effort — and we’ll likely get the other 10 holdouts before much longer.<\/p>\n

Second, I heard from a reliable Hill source that a Senate companion bill will likely be introduced as early as this week. The lead sponsor will probably be Ted Kennedy.<\/p>\n

And, finally, the issue is starting to also become a political nuisance for the White House. Yesterday, reporters pestered Scott McClellan<\/a> with questions about Bush’s executive order, looking for some kind of explanation.<\/p>\n

In particular, a press corps member noted that Rep. Frank LoBiondo — a Republican — has begun circulating<\/a> a letter to his House colleagues, calling on Bush to rescind the order. McClellan was asked if the president would consider a reversal.<\/p>\n

McClellan: We suspended that act for the reasons that we stated previously. This will open up access to more business — small businesses, including women-owned and minority-owned businesses. It cuts through the red tape and helps us move forward quickly to address the needs of the people in the region and to provide substantial savings. We’re talking about savings here in terms of spending. That’s an important part of that, too.<\/p>\n

Q: But how does lowering people’s wages help with rebuilding the economy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, McClellan never quite got around to answering that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The House Dems’ drive to undo Bush’s executive order suspending the Davis-Bacon Act is starting to pick up steam. Three developments of note: First, the number of cosponsors jumped yesterday from to 186, as 15 House Dems jumped on board. This means 95% of the entire House Dem caucus has signed on to this effort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}