D.C. Council chair says he’s withdrawing crime bill before it goes to U.S. Senate
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said he wrote to the U.S. Senate on Monday to withdraw the city’s criminal code revision legislation ahead of a Republican-led disapproval resolution in that chamber that could overturn the bill. However, several lawmakers raised doubts about whether the move could prevent the Senate from voting, with one Republican lawmaker calling it a “desperate, made-up maneuver.
“This is not conceding to Republican rhetoric that the bill is bad, it’s simply pulling it back so that we have more options available to us as well as lowering the heat and lowering the rhetoric,” Mendelson added.But a Senate leadership aide, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk frankly about the legislative process, disagreed with the chairman’s position that the council can withdraw a bill that’s already been transmitted to Congress.
Not only do Mendelson’s actions have no basis in the D.C. Home Rule Act, Hagerty asserted, but it, “underscores the completely unserious way the D.C. Council has legislated. No matter how hard they try, the council cannot avoid accountability for passing this disastrous, dangerous D.C. soft-on-crime bill that will make residents and visitors less safe.”The office of Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.
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