Chuck Schumer: “Every single piece of legislation has to include strong…”

“You know what I said when every one of these spent billions, tens of billions and billions of federal dollars in there? I said, Every single piece of legislation has to include strong Davis Bacon protections or I'm not passing it and it's not going to pass. And every single piece of that legislation did. Our Democratic majority provided more federal dollars for good paying union construction jobs across the country than any Congress has.” (10:59–11:08)

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