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Article: Federal Government Needs to Extend A Helping Hand to District's Economy
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- The Washington Post
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- April 11, 1994
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Almost everyone, it seems, thinks it's a good idea to have the
Congressional Budget Office and the General Accounting Office go
over the District's books to ascertain how the annual federal
payment to the city is being spent and why the city is having such a
devil of a time with cash flow and budget shortfalls.
That's basically what members of Congress want to know. Their
requests to the CBO and GAO appear to be one more step in Congress's
resolve to tell the District how to spend its own money. D.C. Mayor
Sharon Pratt Kelly and other city officials - having no choice - are
prepared to cooperate in what could amount to a further mockery of
home rule.
Better management of the District's ...