A powerful House chairman on Wednesday said the District of Columbia has “deteriorated and declined” across the board in recent years, leaving Congress no choice but to step in and restore public safety in the nation’s capital on behalf of residents, workers and visitors.
A powerful House committee chairman said the District of Columbia has “deteriorated and declined” across the board in recent years, leaving
Rep. Virginia Foxx, North Carolina Republican, said the city’s soft-on-crime policies are to blame. She cited a staff member who kept hearing gunshots and decided to move to Maryland. The oversight panel on Wednesday advanced a resolution, by a vote of 21-17, that would rescind a D.C. police overhaul effort that began in the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020. A final bill was transmitted toDemocrats opposed the resolution, signaling that Republicans will have a hard time replicating their successful effort to block a D.C. overhaul of the criminal code that would have weakened maximum penalties for carjacking and other crimes.
Democrats also pointed to the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by a mob stirred up by President Trump as one of the most notorious crimes in recent city history.
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