Hold the Davis-Bacon

Interesting down-in-the-federal-weeds reading over at Kausfiles on the Davis-Bacon Act, and why the Bush administration may have had bureaucratic, rather than political, reasons for seeking its suspension in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Implementing the law, one federal contract specialist writes, "wastes a lot of a more precious resource than government money: government time. Enforcing and implementing Davis-Bacon adds days, weeks, months to processes. Bush cut it because it makes sense."