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I explained to you how to search the DC Code to find the section I’m citing immediately above, perhaps you missed it.

Here it is again:

This page is the DC Official Code page:

http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/dcofficialcode

That page directs you to this page:

http://government.westlaw.com/linkedslice/search/default.asp?RS=GVT1.0&VR=2.0&SP=dcc-1000

That brings you to a WestLaw natural language search page. Then you type in your search term:

50-1401.02

And the third link is the section in question. Click on that, then look at paragraph (c), subparagraph (4).

This is the official DC Code linked from the official DC government website. It is not a “brochure.” It shows the last revision to this section went into effect in 2007, and the WestLaw version is “current through October 22, 2010.”

Yes, DC is operating under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act:

SEC. 102. [D.C. Code 1-201] (a) Subject to the retention by Congress of the ultimate legislative authority over the nation’s capital granted by article I, 8, of the Constitution, the intent of Congress is to delegate certain legislative powers to the government of the District of Columbia; ...

But regulation of licensing and registration for motor vehicles is not one of the prohibited subjects of DC Council legislation in the Home Rule Act.

What’s more, while it’s true that DC has to submit acts that have passed into law to the House and Senate, they automatically become law after about 30 days “unless during such 30-day period, there has been enacted into law a joint resolution disapproving such act.” DC HRA Sec. 602(c).

Do you have a Joint Resolution repealing the list of exemptions for driver licensing and vehicle registration?

Yes, of course Congress retains the right to “exercise its constitutional authority as legislature for the District, by enacting legislation for the District on any subject, whether within or without the scope of legislative power granted to the Council by this Act, including legislation to amend or repeal any law in force in the District prior to or after enactment of this Act and any act passed by the Council.”

But there’s no indication anywhere on the WestLaw legislative history that Congress did so on this subject.

You’re citing a brochure, I’m citing a law. Law trumps brochures.

There’s a simple explanation - the DC bureaucrats in charge of the brochures are not well-educated enough to know the difference between a “government appointee” and a “Presidential appointee subject to confirmation by the Senate and serving at the pleasure of the President.”

Just look at Senator Chuck Schumer’s “three branches of government” for a perfect example of this type of thing. And he’s a SENATOR, not some paper-pushing DC flunkie.