Marty Walsh: “This bill obviously has not been concluded; its work is still in conference. There are substantial differences between…”

“This bill obviously has not been concluded; its work is still in conference. There are substantial differences between the Senate position and the House position. I spoke with Senator Jeffords as recently as today to try to get some resolution. As the gentleman knows, this has been a very difficult year for the District of Columbia. We passed legislation that basically overhauled the Home Rule to provide for a control board, a financial control board. We never received a budget from the District until 22 months after it was supposed to be submitted. We received a number of budgets. We received the City Council budget, a mayoral budget, a control board budget, all of which, as the gentleman knows since he serves on the subcommittee, slowed us down substantially.”