12/12/1996
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"I have concluded, having worked at this job now for 2 1/2 years, that we cannot achieve the specific strategies of creating opportunity or providing for more responsibility unless we find a way to do ..."
"We have to change it."
"It would also seriously undermine the President's goal of providing a balanced budget while increasing investment programs essential to a higher standard of living for all Americans."
"This legislation is part of a bipartisan and intergovernmental effort to aid the District in its time of fiscal crisis."