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        <fullName>Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to laborers and mechanics working on federal-aid highway construction projects and public transportation construction projects).</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to repeal wage requirements applicable to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-aid highway and public transportation construction projects.</title>
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