Senate voting to block DC crime laws, Biden supportive
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ASHRAF KHALIL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to block new District of Columbia crime laws, voting on a rare motion of disapproval as lawmakers in both parties have expressed concern about rising violent crime rates in cities nationwide. President Joe Biden said last week that he would sign the Republican resolution, which was passed by the GOP-led House last month. It would mark the first time in more than three decades that Congress has nullified the capital city’s laws through the disapproval process — and a shift in the long-held Democratic position that the federal government should let D.C. govern itself.
