DC Council Pulls Controversial Crime Bill Before Block by Senate, Biden

Democratic D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced at a press conference on Monday that he was withdrawing a controversial criminal code bill that sought to reduce sentences for violent crimes committed in the Capital.
While the Council had passed the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA), it was vetoed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and, on Feb. 9, the House of Representatives introduced a measure to overturn it. The bill was scheduled to face a vote in the U.S. Senate that aimed to block it.
“This morning, I delivered a letter to the Senate withdrawing the criminal code reform commission legislation,” Mendelson told reporters at the legislative press conference on March 6….}