DCist - 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.
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