[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                      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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