WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde, a member of the House Oversight Committee, is leading a GOP contingent seeking to repeal the District of Columbia’s Home Rule Act, The Washington Informer reported on Monday, February 21, in an article written by Stacy M. Brown.
Clyde and others have been critical of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration, claiming that crime, homelessness, and open drug use are out of control in the nation’s capital.
The GOP lawmakers also cited Mayor Bowser’s indoor vaccine mandate, which she’s since rolled back.
“While I’m glad our intention of repealing D.C.’s Home Rule Act was heard loud and clear, the problems facing our nation’s capital city extend far beyond medical tyranny,” Rep. Clyde contended.
“Make no mistake, this was not an empty threat; legislation is coming to restore Congress’ Article I Section 8 Constitutional duty ‘to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District’ and to properly manage D.C.’s affairs.
“In the near future, we will free Washington D.C. from the failed experiment of so-called ‘Home Rule,’ and we will return our nation’s capital to the American people after the Democrats’ almost 50-year reign of terror and failed leadership,” Rep. Clyde continued.
But longtime Democratic District of Columbia Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton condemned Rep. Clyde’s attack.
“Representative Clyde literally wants the federal government to resume running D.C. as a colony,” Rep. Norton said. “He wants to take away the limited self-government the nearly 700,000 D.C. residents, a majority of whom are minorities, have had for the last 50 years and give absolute power over D.C. to Congress and, presumably, to congressionally or presidentially appointed administrators.” See complete article in The Washington Informer at https://www.washingtoninformer.com/republicans-seek-to-strip-the-district-of-columbia-of-home-rule/?fbclid=IwAR0
