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Crackdown on contractors may end

Associated Press / October 28, 2011

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In a rare show of unity in a bitterly partisan year, the House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to repeal a law requiring federal, state and local governments to withhold 3 percent of what contractors are owed until they pay their taxes.

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