The U.S. House Oversight Committee is expected to take up 14 proposed bills this week that are aimed at changing the way D.C. is governed. One bill threatens to make the D.C. attorney general appointed by the president and not elected by residents.

The House will consider the measures as President Donald Trump’s 30-day crime emergency is set to expire Wednesday.

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Trump seized additional federal control over the District on Aug. 11. Hundreds of arrests made by a surge of federal officers have followed.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is keeping an eye on a new threat to Home Rule. At an event on Monday in Northeast D.C., Bowser said she’ll have more to say later this week about the end of the crime emergency. She emphasized one spec

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