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Article: D.C. Mayor Defends Status Quo; Two Lawmakers Back Shift to City Manager
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- The Washington Post
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- July 17, 1997
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Mayor Marion Barry urged members of Congress yesterday not to
transfer his authority to run the District to a city manager, but
Democratic and Republican legislators expressed strong support for
reducing Barry's power as part of a broad-based D.C. rescue package.
Barry sought to persuade members of Congress that the city is
well managed and not in need of so drastic an overhaul. He also
urged them to avoid imposing such a major change in the structure of
the city government without giving residents the chance to vote on
it.
"The people of Washington ought to be the ones to decide," the
mayor said at a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee on
the District. "Those who think ...