{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sablan.house.gov/prevailing-wage-study-now-use", "Prevailing wage study now in use", "2017-11-12", "2017", "2017-11", "Democrat", "House", "MP", "Gregorio Sablan", "S001177", "sablan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Prevailing wage study now in use                                           \n              Nov 12, 2017      \t\t        \t    \n      \t            \n                    \n                                            \n          \n        \n        \n            \n    \n  \n    \n    \n    The Commonwealth\u2019s 2016 Prevailing Wage and Workforce Study is now in use by the U.S. Department of Labor for making prevailing wage determinations for H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, and H-2B visas, or permanent labor certification programs. I received confirmation of this in a letter today from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor Nancy M. Rooney.\nPrevailing wage certifications are required to ensure that foreign workers entering under these visa categories are not competing unfairly with U.S. workers or driving down wages by working for less than is generally paid for a particular job in a particular geographic location.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://sablan.house.gov/prevailing-wage-study-now-use"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7715467363595963, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}