Anonymous wrote:The misconduct of DC Councilmember Jack Evans scandal continues to cost DC citizens in many ways.
https://www.gwhatchet.com/2019/12/23/house-republicans-consider-delay-on-d-c-statehood-bill-markup-citing-evans-scandal/
Republicans penned a letter last week seeking to delay consideration of a House bill granting D.C. statehood, arguing that the body needs to fully understand Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans’ wrongdoing before marking the bill up.
GOP members of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote a letter to the committee’s chair, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., urging her to postpone consideration of H.R. 51, a bill granting D.C. statehood, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The move comes after Evans declined an invitation from Republicans to testify before the committee about his wrongdoing.
“The Committee cannot mark up H.R. 51 until the Committee fully understands and assesses the nature and extent of D.C. Councilmember Evans’s misconduct,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to Maloney, according to The Post.
Evans – who is slated to be expelled from the D.C. Council next month for abusing his government seat to solicit private business.