Miller's Tale (Fighting Bush on Davis-Bacon)--The American Prospect [View All]

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10770

"In a year marked by Democrats’ increasingly audacious push-back against Republicans, one move stood out for its legislative moxie and for the very public defeat it dealt the president. Nine days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf, George W. Bush suspended the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, a law Republicans have wanted to do away with for decades. The law requires federal contractors to pay workers the prevailing wage in the community where they work, and it would have ensured that companies like Halliburton that were tasked with doing post-hurricane clean-up work couldn’t reduce wages offered to the newly destitute citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi. "

Short and sweet article of a rare victory, and an American hero.