Posted on 02/01/2021 1:00:10 PM PST by yesthatjallen
When fences were erected around the U.S. Capitol after the Jan. 6 insurrection, they were meant to keep troublemakers out. But they’ve also successfully kept the District from being able to govern itself.
City officials said Monday that about 60 pieces of legislation passed by the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser cannot officially become law because they have been unable to get physical copies of the measures to Congress, as required under decades-old regulations around Congress’s oversight of the city.
Because D.C. is not a state, the council is required to hand-deliver signed hard copies of all new pieces of legislation to House and Senate leadership. Congress then gets 30 legislative days to review all the legislation (60 days if a bill touches on the city’s criminal code) before it becomes law.
Yes, you read that right. Council staffers must hand-deliver the bills.
For the past three months, council staffers have been unable to access the U.S. Capitol to make these deliveries. They are not allowed to use email or snail mail. They must make an in-person handoff to staffers for the Speaker of the House and the Vice President, who serves as the President of the Senate.
“It’s this crazy home rule situation which would be avoided if we had statehood,” said D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. He was referring to the 1973 Home Rule Act, which lays out how the District is governed.
SNIP
(Excerpt) Read more at dcist.com ...
It’s whining about “reasons” to make D.C. a state... to divert attention from the REAL reasons.
Organized confusion D.C. in motion.
Too many taxes.
Too many laws.
Could that be one of the reasons for the wall around the capitol building?
And they say fences don’t work...
“Mister Joe Biden, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!”
60 new laws by D.C. City Council? That is nuts.
Are they still able to make a phone call to a Speaker staff member and ask them to send someone to the fence to get the paper? Or are they not getting the pomp and ceremony they think they deserve in presenting the papers?
Idiocracy and inefficiency. Such things are ubiquitous to government.
Perhaps they should list the laws. I have a feeling that they aren’t that important.
Turn the unfenced areas of the district back to Maryland. It is past time for us to empower the residents as Washington, Maryland, and separately have the District of Columbia for the federal presence.
I think they need a 90 ft wall like the Pope has. Seal the doors and fill it with water.
The next time center-right government gains power (whether GOP or Patriot Party or something else), they should pass a bill, returning all of the land in D.C. to Maryland, leaving only the White House, The Capitol, the National Mall, a couple federal buildings and Smithsonian Museums in the federal district.
Why in the heck should DC be a state? Instead designate a smaller section of land as federally owned land and give the rest back to maryland, virginia and west virginia. Making DC a state is just plain stupid.
“It’s this crazy home rule situation which would be avoided if we had statehood,” said D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.”
“Because D.C. is not a state, the council is required to hand-deliver signed hard copies of all new pieces of legislation to House and Senate leadership. Congress then gets 30 legislative days to review all the legislation (60 days if a bill touches on the city’s criminal code) before it becomes law.”
Maybe this is why the DC mob will start pushing to become a sate: To alleviate this problem.
Exactly.
No one in.... OR out!
Thee is no reason why they should be generating “60 pieces of legislation” to begin with.
Why is no one able to walk them over? What is stopping them?
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