District of Columbia Appropriations for 1975: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, Part 1

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Page 1050 - I will be pleased to try to answer any questions that the members of the committee may have regarding the budget item or other program concerns.
Page 658 - If you have any questions I will be happy to try to answer them. Senator ELLENDER.
Page 677 - Council to the contrary, or until overruled by controlling court decision, are the guiding statements of law, to be followed by all District officers and employees in the performance of their official duties. The goal of this agency has been and will continue to be to render efficient and timely legal services, both prosecutorial and advisory, to the entire District of Columbia government. The...
Page 348 - A person who moves or discontinues his business, or moves other personal property, or moves from his dwelling on or after the effective date of this Act, as a direct result of any project or program which receives Federal financial assistance under title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended...
Page 1085 - Schneider, we want to thank you and your associates for appearing before the Committee at this time in behalf of your budget request for fiscal year 1979.
Page 1110 - Mayor Washington and City Council Chairman Hechinger have urged the Senate-House conferees to strike from the highway bill language which would require the District to proceed with the construction of a freeway system. We think the mandatory language should be kept in the bill and that it should be approved by Congress. With such a directive there is little likelihood that work on the freeways will go forward. And lacking an adequate freeway system, combined with rapid transit, the economic life...
Page 345 - Columbia shall become temporarily disabled by injury received or disease contracted in the actual discharge of his duty, to such an extent as to require medical or surgical services other than such as can be rendered by the Board of Police and...
Page 1102 - Mr. NATCHER. The District of Columbia has not been in compliance with the 1968 Highway Act at any time since passage of the act. From August 1968, until August 1969, the District government's position was simply outright refusal to comply with the act. If the District officials had listened to President Nixon and carried out the advice given to them by the President we would have solved this impasse over freeways and rapid transit many months ago. President Nixon has carried out every commitment...
Page 255 - METHODOLOGY Family of four: The assumed family of four consists of a husband who earns all the family income primarily through salaries and wages, a wife, and two children of primary or secondary school age. Income Tax Six income levels are assumed. The state and local tax burdens are calculated for calendar...
Page 350 - To authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to accept or permit the acceptance of the performance by volunteers of services for and on behalf of the municipal government of the District of Columbia. Under existing law the District of Columbia generally is prohibited from utilizing the...

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