[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: July 13, 1994]
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  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSING DEPARTMENT SPENDS $10,000 AT RESORT IN 
                              PUERTO RICO

  (Mr. WALSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, today's front page of the Washington Post is 
very enlightening. The District of Columbia's housing department, rated 
the worst in the country, recently sent eight employees to a resort in 
Puerto Rico to study public housing at a cost of over $10,000 to the 
taxpayer. This is the same department that spent $1.3 million to spruce 
up its own headquarters while hundreds of its housing units are 
unrepaired and uninhabitable and while hundreds of Americans live 
homeless and on the streets of Washington, DC.
  Mr. Speaker, when we take up the District of Columbia appropriations 
bill, I ask my colleagues to remember this. Our choice is to fix the 
budget ourselves by amendment or to defeat it and send it back to the 
Mayor and the city council. This is our responsibility.

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