[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H15101-H15102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONTINUING RESOLUTION FOR D.C. KEEPS CITY'S HEART BEATING, BUT BREAKS 
                     THE HEARTS OF CITY'S RESIDENTS

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 


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minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask the support of this body for a 
continuing resolution for the District of Columbia, which will come 
before this body this afternoon.
  Members will shake their heads when they see it, for if we were to 
ask what is the least we could do to carry out our responsibilities to 
the Nation's Capital, this would be it. Allow the District to spend its 
own money for a little more than a week and get no part of its Federal 
payment.
  Mr. Speaker, this comes close to humiliation for the 600,000 people I 
represent, who are not allowed any access to their Federal payment, 
even though they are second per capita in Federal income taxes in this 
country.
  But a worse humiliation would be the total catastrophe of a second 
shutdown of the District on its own money. There have been several 
agreements that would have broken this impasse, but each time some 
person or the other simply turned over the tables.
  Our appropriation has been delayed for 3 months now. No city can 
survive this way. It has delayed reform, taken it off the table and 
forced the District into crisis management.
  Today's continuing resolution keeps the city's heart beating, but it 
breaks the heart of my 600,000 good residents.

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