Surety Assn of WI urges Chairman Ron Johnson to support removing the Federal Miller Act from indexing

We are writing because the House and Senate Armed Services Committee will soon begin to consider language in the annual defense spending bill that impacts small businesses, many of whom are subcontractors and suppliers on federal construction projects, which concerns our members of the Surety Association of Wisconsin. As enacted by the House, Section 877 of H.R. 2500, exempts the federal Miller Act bond threshold from the required indexing of all federal acquisition thresholds for inflation.

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