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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should the DC Mayor have house floor privileges? What was the rationale for granting them in the first place and when did that happen?[/quote]

State governors have them.  It seems reasonable that the District mayor should too.  Also PR and other territories, unless they are abusing the privilege.  [/quote]
Exactly right. Since state governors have them, and DC is not a state, the DC Mayor is the equivalent of the Governor.[/quote]
Make this make sense?

The question though was when were these privileges first granted? I doubt that the House Republicans are overturning a centuries or even decades old privilege. [/quote]
The answer is that this rule was first introduced in 2021 at the insistence of Holmes Norton, so this is not the “insult[ing]” scandal that Holmes Norton and Bowser are making it out to be or indicative of anything. It is just reverting to the pre-2021 norm. 
https://thedcline.org/2021/01/02/press-release-norton-gets-house-rules-changes-for-d-c-in-117th-congress/[/quote]

So, in other words, the rules simply were reverted to the pre-2020 rules. 
Sounds ok.  [/quote]

Not exactly.  The press release notes that governors of territories already had this privilege.  Republicans have now taken it away from them too.

I guess they don’t want brown and black people figuring too prominently on the House floor.[/quote]
Those privileges were also granted in 2021. You think they just extended it only to the DC mayor?

Previous rules designated Democrats as committee chairs and gave them a majority of committee seats, was it wrong for them to change those rules too?[/quote]

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