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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...

...Ryan, chairman of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee, said in a virtual press conference said that troops are still around the U.S. Capitol building due to threats "around the impeachment and just generally, given what's happened, and the fact that we don't have a reset for the security apparatus around the Capitol building. We are in the process of figuring that out." "How can we learn everything we need to learn to reset the posture on Capitol Hill?" Ryan asked. "We're not going to let the National Guard go home, or we're not going to create an unsafe environment for the...