[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 28 (Monday, July 15, 2002)]
[Page 1183]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the District of Columbia's Fiscal 
Year 2003 Budget Request

July 11, 2002

To the Congress of the United States:

    Pursuant to my constitutional authority and consistent with sections 
202(c) and (e) of The District of Columbia Financial Management and 
Responsibility Assistance Act of 1995 and section 446 of The District of 
Columbia Self-Governmental Reorganization Act as amended in 1989, I am 
transmitting the District of Columbia's Fiscal Year 2003 Budget Request 
Act.
    The proposed FY 2003 Budget Request Act reflects the major 
programmatic objectives of the Mayor and the Council of the District of 
Columbia. For FY 2003, the District estimates total revenues and 
expenditures of $5.7 billion.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 July 11, 2002.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
July 12.