[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 19, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ENTERPRISE ZONES IN AMERICA

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I am introducing, along with the 
distinguished Senator from Illinois, Senator Durbin, legislation to 
deal with America's cities. Some are urgently in need of assistance. 
Our legislation is not to add new funding through appropriations but, 
instead, to have the General Services Administration allocate 15 
percent of new expenditures to enterprise zones, to distressed areas, 
to have Federal buildings constructed, with the priority in cities 
where there are depressed areas to provide jobs in those areas, and to 
reinstitute certain historical tax breaks which could be of great 
benefit for the cities.

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