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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we go back to having Congress run the District?[/quote] They do. They have the right to overturn every law that the Council and Mayor pass during a review period. Even when the laws aren’t overturned, Congress can control how the city government spends money collected from city tax payers. These are DC’s dollars, not federal money. In this way DC has been prevented from enacting recreational marijuana sales, which taxpayers approved in 2014. Though we don’t have voting representation in Congress, DC has a delegate to represent our interests. Yet, she has been stripped of her right to participate in committees in the past, thus depriving District residents of any direct influence on the Hill. [/quote]
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