WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has rejected a plea from the Democratic chairman of the Washington, D.C., Council to cancel a planned vote on a House-passed measure blocking the district’s new criminal code.
Chairman Phil Mendelson said Monday he sent Senate leaders a letter stating he is withdrawing the Council bill that would revise the revised code, which was enacted over the veto of Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser. But Schumer’s staff quickly fired back, noting that the Senate would not be taking up the Council’s measure specifically.
“Not only does the statute not allow for a withdrawal of a transmission, but at this point the Senate Republican privileged motion will be acting on the House disapproval resolution, rather than the DC Council’s transmission to the Senate,” a Senate Democratic leadership aide said in an email. “We still expect the vote to occur.”
