BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Bills and resolutions

Commission To Improve Labor Statistics: establish to examine BLS processes to provide unemployment rates and make recommendations for any changes in methodology or improvements (see H.R. 3674), H6787 [1OC]

Davis-Bacon Act: require determination of the prevailing wage utilized (see H.R. 924), H1033 [12FE]

Dept. of Education: require higher education institutions to provide students with information from BLS Occupational Employment Statistics Program and Occupational Outlook Handbook (see H.R. 1573), H1899 [24MR]

Economy: report the consumer price index using methodology employed in 1980 (see H.R. 3500), H5974 [11SE]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security (see H.R. 3074), H5236 [15JY] (see H.R. 3588), H6188 [22SE]

Unemployment: include discouraged and marginally attached workers in official measure of national unemployment (see H.R. 1876), H2307 [16AP]

Remarks in House

Commission To Improve Labor Statistics: establish to examine BLS processes to provide unemployment rates and make recommendations for any changes in methodology or improvements (H.R. 3674), H6822 [6OC]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security, H7037 [21OC]