Dearly departed U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen supposedly uttered the famous line: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money.” The Dirksen Center disputes the senator uttered such words, but the line has stuck, and it still counts, more than ever. Take Mayor Vince Gray’s plan to hold a community meeting next month at the convention center, for a cool $600,000.
Now, in the larger scheme of the D.C. budget, $600k might be considered chump change. Amid $10 billion, what’s a few hundred thousand green backs?
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