BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Bills and resolutions

Davis-Bacon Act: require determination of the prevailing wage utilized (see H.R. 1042), H1183 [14FE]

Income: require certain prevailing wage determinations be made using representative statistical sample techniques (see S. 1200), S3070 [22MY]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security (see H.R. 991), H1099 [9FE] (see H.R. 2016), H2785 [6AP]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Defense: require any determination of the prevailing wage for contractors to be based on statistically sampled information from BLS, H5795, H5796 [13JY]

Dept. of Labor: Women’s Bureau funding through reductions in BLS funding, H7281 [12SE]

Technology: require estimate of resources needed to model for various changes in the workforce composition because of technological displacement, H7282 [12SE]

Reports filed

Nomination of William Beach To Be BLS Commissioner: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate), S8006 [13DE]