[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1039]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            NEW MEMBERS WELCOMED TO 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. Mr. Speaker, because I represent the home jurisdiction of 
the United States Congress, I want to personally welcome new Members of 
the House and my friends and colleagues from past years. Many of them 
will spend more of their time here than they will in their own home 
district. They should know something about the city, and there is a 
Dear Colleague coming to them which they may find useful.
  The city has rapidly revitalized. After a period of financial crisis, 
it was the only city that had to carry State, county, and municipal 
functions. Ultimately, it had to have a control board like the boards 
they had in New York and Philadelphia and Cleveland and other cities, 
but on Monday after 4 years of balanced budgets and surpluses, indeed 
the end of the control period was announced 2 years ahead of time. We 
have been witnessing not only financial revival but the complete 
overhaul of services, enormous progress. The front page of the 
Washington Post talks about some of that progress today. If Members 
have service problems in their own home or in their own neighborhood, I 
hope they will be in touch with my office.

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