Bipartisan Senate to DC council: Never mind the never-minding, we're still voting
Posted on AllSides March 6th, 2023
From The Right
The Democratic-controlled Washington city council on Monday withdrew a bill aimed at overhauling the city’s criminal code, which Congress had been set to overturn in a move that President Joe Biden had vowed not to block. “The bill has been pulled back from Congress,” council chair Phil Mendelson said at a news conference, adding that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Senate advising that the bill had been withdrawn. … Despite the city’s withdrawal, top Democratic and Republican Senate aides said the vote on the resolution would still...