Tax Cut Progress Report . It continues to have widespread support in the city and Congress alike. Now we have just had a hearing in the Senate, as we had in the House last July. The Senate hearing advanced the bill's chances. There is growing recognition that, even if the President's plan is enacted, the city's struggle to recover is being systematically undercut by residential flight at a rate three times the rate in the 1980s.
Many obstacles remain.
Choosing our new U.S. Attorney . U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, our first truly local U.S. Attorney, the first chosen by us, and the District's first black U.S. Attorney, is moving on and moving up. President Clinton has nominated him to be Janet Reno's Deputy Attorney General, another breakthrough for black Americans and for Washingtonians, due in part on the fine job Holder did here. This is the country's gain, not our loss. Eric will continue to help the District from the Department, where he can do the District a lot of good.