Senate plows forward with vote on DC crime bill despite city council backpedal
“Not only does the statute not allow for a withdrawal of a transmission, but at this point the Senate Republican privileged motion will be acting on the House disapproval resolution, rather than the DC Council’s transmission to the Senate," a Senate leadership aide said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner."We still expect the vote to occur."In response to the Senate's decision to push forward, D.C.
Mendelson announced on Monday that he sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris withdrawing the crime bill, called the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022.
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