It could strip the voting rights of 700,000 people, dismantle a 36,000-person government with a multi-billion dollar budget, put Florida and Wyoming senators in charge of your plumbing and trash—and it’s only one sentence long. Earlier this month, three House Republicans introduced an attention-grabbing bill to Congress that would repeal DC Home Rule, a federal
It could strip the voting rights of 700,000 people, dismantle a 36,000-person government with a multi-billion dollar budget, put Florida and Wyoming senators in charge of your plumbing and trash—and it’s only one sentence long.
Earlier this month, three House Republicans introduced an attention-grabbing bill to Congress that would repeal DC Home Rule, a federal act that allows District residents to form a government. But the actual actionable portion of the legislation, which could undo a nearly half-century of local self-governance, is just 17 words long.
“I’ve seen other one-sentence bills, but they’re mostly renaming post offices or congratulating national champions for their season, that kind of stuff,” says Casey Burgat, a professor and legislative affairs program director at George Washington University. “The simplicity here is a red flag. There’s no intention of this actually becoming law,” he added.
Burgat calls this bill, which is unlikely to pass, a “message bill”—something not meant to be enacted or even voted on, but rather used by lawmakers to attract media coverage and earn points with their constituents. “This probably took five minutes of his staff and his time to actually introduce, and look at the attention that it’s getting for that time investment,” Burgat says.
The bill has spurred numerous news reports and been lambasted by local residents and elected officials. “The notion that Congress is ready to go back 50 years when it wasn’t running the city well then, is fantasy,” DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson
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