[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18609]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             VOTE AGAINST ATTACHMENTS TO D.C. APPROPRIATION

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues are about to have an out of 
body legislative experience. When the D.C. appropriation comes to the 
floor shortly, they will be asked to appropriate somebody else's money. 
Worse, a local budget that has no business here will become an excuse 
for attachments that are anathema to the people I represent.
  In our Federalist system no action is regarded as more oppressive 
than national usurpation of local law. The Republic will not fall if my 
colleagues vote against these attachments. It will be weakened if they 
do what they would not stand for in their own districts and vote to 
tell local residents how they may spend their own local funds.
  Please vote against the attachments to the D.C. appropriation.

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