On the recordAugust 6, 1998
Mr. Chairman, this may be selfish and special interest legislation but it is not on the part of suburban Members. This is an election year in the city and every election year people are coming up, whipping up the electorate, and now it is trying to promise city residents that they are going to get jobs that they may or may not otherwise be qualified for, and it is a sham, and it is a shame. The District Government does not operate well. I do not think anyone can sit here and say we would not have had legislation that imposes a Control Board on the city and taken some of the other stringent actions that the authorizing and appropriations committees have taken if the city were functioning well. The potholes are unfilled, applications and permits are routinely lost, garbage not picked up. To solve these problems, the city needs the very best workers they can find to make the government operational once again.
Source
govinfo.gov
