On the recordJuly 26, 2000
I rise to oppose a rule shot through with financial, operational, and social intrusions that should concern no one unless you happen to be a resident of the District of Columbia. D.C. is once again bringing up the rear of the appropriations. This should be the easiest of the 13 appropriation bills. Few Members have or should bother to acquire familiarity with the complicated, necessarily parochial operations of a big American city that is not their own. I oppose this rule because the bill before us is full of avoidable problems any city would have to find objectionable. First, movement of available funds from D.C. priorities to others chosen by the subcommittee without any consultation with the District. Second, movement of riders, and not only social riders, but riders that are so old that they are laughably out of date or redundant because the provisions are already in the D.C. code or Federal law.
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