![]() Clearly, he doesn’t live near there and likely hasn’t been yelled at or threatened by those living in that unsafe encampment. The new chair of the Housing Committee has told the mayor to stop pushing for the closing of tent encampments like the one on McPherson Square. There is lots of legislation that Congress will not react to but that is still flawed. It is time the Council slows down and thinks first. This embarrassment to the District of having home rule questioned this way could have been avoided with better legislation. Based on what I am hearing they are not even that popular with the residents of the District. Neither bill as written will be popular with the majority of the voters in the country. ![]() The president has not committed to vetoing these resolutions should they get to his desk. Even so she has told Congress to butt out and even got President Biden to tell them the same thing. Mayor Bowser appropriately vetoed the Criminal Code overhaul and submitted legislation to fix the bill. Again, they had to know this would happen. Council who voted for these flawed bills. But the ones who must accept the blame for this happening, are the members of the D.C. Let me state again, emphatically, I am against the Congress doing this. Hard to support that with the war in Ukraine and Chinese balloons flying over us. ![]() ![]() Andy Harris (R-Md.), the far-right congressman, touted to his colleagues it would give Russian and Chinese diplomats here for more than 30 days the right to vote. When it comes to non-citizens voting, it is just as difficult to approve a bill giving migrants living in D.C. With a crime wave in D.C., and across the nation, it is difficult for anyone up for election in 2024 to justify voting to reduce maximum penalties for crimes. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) who had just been mugged in her apartment building in D.C. One of the Democrats voting against the criminal code overhaul was Rep. What gives Republicans hope these will pass in the Senate is on the non-citizen voting rights bill 42 Democrats joined Republicans and on the criminal code revision 31 did. If the resolutions don’t get through the Senate, Republicans will try to do this through amendments to funding bills. The Council had to know this would happen. Nevertheless, I am opposed to having Congress take this action. I have written before both bills were flawed when they passed. elections second was the major revision of the D.C. One was the bill allowing non-citizens to vote in D.C. The House voted in favor of two disapproval resolutions with bipartisan support. When Republicans are in charge there is more chance they will try to attack D.C. OK, so what was his point? Yes, Congress is about politics, but so is the D.C. Recently, Council Chair Phil Mendelson held a press conference accusing Congress of playing politics. does not have legislative or budget autonomy. I am against Congress interfering in D.C. Council has now found two that even Democrats are reacting to. There are issues that will definitely bring a reaction from Congress and the D.C. We are seeing Republicans trying to control more of what happens in the District of Columbia. mayor’s right to go on the floor of the House to using their right to control D.C.’s legislation and budget. Latest Action: House - Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee.Congress is moving from petty to real from taking away the D.C. (Introduced ) Cosponsors: ( 10)Ĭommittees: House - Financial Services House Administration H.R.1022 - 118th Congress (2023-2024) To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 761st Tank Battalion, collectively, in recognition of their crucial role in the success of Allied forces in Europe and for the example they set as the first Black soldiers to go to war as part of an American armored unit.
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