More than a dozen people were arrested Wednesday as they protested congressional efforts to block D.C.’s criminal code overhaul, while GOP senators pointed to crime in the nation’s capital as they spoke before the chamber’s scheduled late-afternoon vote.
“This is our capital city, but local politicians have let its streets become a danger and an embarrassment,” he said.
Sen Roger Marshall said he fears for his wife and staff walking to Capitol Hill from their homes and for Christmas gave the women on his staff a “special device” to defend themselves if they are attacked. “In my view this resolution is an attack on the democratic rights of the people of the District of Columbia, which has its own duly elected democratic representatives, the mayor and D.C. Council. It’s residents are fully capable of deciding their own laws and deciding their own future. Congress should not be overriding the will of the people of D.C.,” he said.
Congress has oversight of D.C.’s laws and budget thanks to a provision in the U.S. Constitution, which grants Congress exclusive authority over the federal district. Over the past 50 years Congress has used that authority in myriad ways, such as restricting how D.C. spends local funds on subsidizedor the development of a legal recreational marijuana industry. But it hasn’t successfully used its power to “disapprove” of D.C.
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