House GOP Passes Bill Targeting D.C. Traffic Cameras, Gun Laws - DCist
House Republicans mounted a full-frontal attack on D.C.’s ability to govern itself this week. They moved forward with bills that would do everything from altering the city’s traffic laws and gun restrictions to upending how residents vote and overturning local laws passed by the D.C. Council.
The sweeping provisions targeting D.C. were included in bills and spending measures approved by three House committees on Wednesday and Thursday, moving them closer to votes in the full House, which is controlled by Republicans.
On Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability approved a bill from Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) that would stop the city from implementing a new law allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections. House Republicans unsuccessfully tried earlier this year to block it from taking effect, but the Democratic-led Senate did not follow suit.
On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee approved a federal spending bill that included some two-dozen provisions targeting D.C.’s laws and policies. The bill would prohibit D.C. from using traffic cameras or banning cars from turning right on red lights as the council legislated in late 2022; extend the eight-year-old prohibition on the city legalizing recreational marijuana sales; continue banning D.C. from subsidizing abortions for low-income women; repeal the city’s seven-year-old law that legalized physician-assisted suicide; and prohibit the city from spending money...
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