D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) this week lobbied Senate leaders to vote against a pair of disapproval resolutions that target D.C. legislation, telling them not to “overturn laws duly enacted by the District of Columbia.”
, to demand a more visible and unified response from Bowser and city officials. “We have seen local leaders who have advocated for statehood stand silent because they personally disagree with the details of these laws,” the caucus said in a statement, declaring that city leaders needed to take a stand “in no uncertain terms.
Echoing Bowser’s concerns about the overhaul of the criminal code, congressional Republicans have taken aim at provisions that would reduce maximum penalties for certain violent crimes such as robbery and carjacking at a time when D.C. is grappling with rates of violent crime that are higher than pre-pandemic levels. Republicans also have decried the elimination of mandatory minimum sentences for almost all offenses.
She added that she thought Democrats’ votes on the disapproval resolutions were not a setback for D.C. statehood, noting that the issue in recent years has become a positive voting rights issue for Democrats.In the Senate, D.C.’s allies in the region are avoiding debating the merits of the legislation and are encouraging colleagues to simply stick with the principle that Congress should not be intervening in a local government’s affairs.
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