District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser urged the House Oversight Committee to reject 13 proposed bills this week aimed at how the district is governed.

In a letter to Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and ranking member Robert Garcia (D-CA), Bowser pointed to some of the city’s progress on crime and public safety and argued the proposed legislation would make the city “less safe.”

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Bowser said the city has “worked collaboratively with this Committee on shared priorities,” but that she now asks that the committee “reject 13 of the DC bills before you today that encroach

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