[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 8, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     INFORMING CONGRESS ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, periodically, I come before this body 
simply to inform it about the state of the District of Columbia. Mayor 
Tony Williams gave his State of the District address this week. Only 
one year after taking office, he was able to show significant 
improvements in every area of life in the District of Columbia.
  This was a city down on its knees only a few years ago. Now, it is 
about to go into the fourth year of a balanced budget and a surplus. 
The Mayor and the City Council have shown, definitively, that they know 
what they are doing. Anybody who looks around this city can see the 
difference.
  I hope that this body will leave the micromanagement of the District 
to the District. What the Mayor and the Council deserve after the 
improvements we have seen, is a clean appropriation, which after all, 
consists mostly of money from the District, and respect from this body 
so that elected officials in the city can, in fact, run the city.

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