from closing Fire Engine Company No.3 without the prior approval of the Committee on Appropriations. The Report, also, requires the District government to study and report back to the Committee on certain parking problema. These are costly matters for the District. 11. Congressional Research Service, "Tax Questions Relating to Possible D.C. Statehood," American Law Division, October 18, 1982, page CRS-4. "In certain instances Congress had provided for exemptions from State taxation to promote Federal governmental interests. In some cases those exemptions extend to real property taxes The ... Supreme Court has recognized the authority of Congress to exempt instrumentalities of the Federal governaent from property taxation by the States (599 e.a. City of Cleveland v. United States, 323 U.S. 327 (1945)) and has applied a Federal statute making compensation and insurance allowances for veterans "exempt from all taxation" to void a local tax. Lawrence v. Shaw, 300 U.S. 245 (1937). Exemptions of this nature presumably could not be reached by any State." 14. Lillian Rymarowicz, "What Would Happen to GNP in the District of columbia if the Federal Government Cut or Ceased Funding," Congressional research Service, June 1986. 15. The expenditure items noted are the Senate. appropriations in the period 1982-1984. The actual numbers for 1985 and 1986 were readily obtained from Indices.. 1986. 33 SUBJECT INDEX Commuter tax 262, 273, 280, 301, 315, 318, 320, 647 Congress: Can Congress limit the new State? 37, 49, 59, 75, 177 Can Congress rewrite the State constitution? 37, 39, 54, 60, 78, 105, 113, 177 Constitution of New Columbia 33, 87, 100, 111, 119, 124, 129, 209, 221, 226, 240, Constitution of U.S. 26, 30, 117, 148, 161, 171 23rd amendment 35, 42, 58, 74, 106, 112, 176 Criteria for statehood 61, 72, 79, 93, 181 Economic impact of statehood 250, 256, 575-693, 694-727 Federal payment 252, 263, 278, 288, 309, 310, 328, 341, 357, 653-669 Federal programs 266, 298, 670-693 Limitations in Home Rule Act 182, 194 Maryland, obligation to 36, 45, 55, 58, 73, 102, 175 Ratification of D.C. statehood by States 172 Representation 168 Task force on statehood constitution 26, 29, 87, 94, 114, 121, 225 |