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[elfs]

President Bush has suspended the Davis-Bacon act of 1931 for workers in declared disaster areas. This means that contractors will not be required to pay prevailing local wages to federal employees.

In a letter to Congress, Bush said he has the power to suspend the law because of the national emergency caused by the hurricane: "I have found that the conditions caused by Hurricane Katrina constitute a 'national emergency'."

Lovely. By fiat, George Bush has given himself the power Nixon once craved. Now, I'm scared.

Comments

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Um, btw, apparently the Washinton Post is doing a list of people who are blogging on articles they are posting. You are listed second on their list of eleven.

Go you. ;)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Technorati is getting more interesting by the day. :-)

[woggie.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think it's the recent political (in)actions combined with the wake of hurricane Katrina that are conspiring to make my stomach hurt of late.

...but I have no proof.

[kowboy.livejournal.com]

Now is this the same state of national emergency he declared on August 26th (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html) that somehow didn't empower him to use federal resources unless specifically asked by local officials or is this the national State of Emergency (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5265067,00.html) declared after the attacks on the World Trade Center four years ago?

I'm confused.