Date: September 29, 1982
Subject: Davis-Bacon
Description: Hatfield (R-OR) motion to table (kill) the Nickles (R-OK) amendment, to establish in law certain regulatory changes proposed by the Labor Department, but blocked by court order, in the costly Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law; the provisions would increase the minimum size of federal contracts affected by the law to $100,000 from $2,000, and make certain changes in the way local prevailing wages were calculated, for example barring use of urban wage scales in rural areas.
Result: Motion to Table Agreed to, 52-44
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