<p>A top Washington, D.C., official moved to withdraw a controversial overhaul of the capital city&#8217;s crime code after President Joe Biden sided with Republicans in Congress who opposed it.</p>
<p>D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson <a href="https://twitter.com/MissBeaE/status/1632776992289435650" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> on Monday to Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the president of the Senate, announcing that he was withdrawing the Revised Criminal Code Act from congressional consideration.</p>
<p>&#8220;Withdrawal enables the Council to work on the measure in light of Congressional comments, and to re-transmit it later,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p>Despite Mendelson&#8217;s letter, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters the upper chamber still plans to have a vote. &#8220;They have a right to bring it up but there&#8217;ll be a vote on Wednesday,&#8221; he said, <a href="https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1632846615995097088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to NBC News</a>.</p>
<p>Proponents argued that the overhaul improves an outdated system, while critics warned it would embolden wrongdoers by reducing the penalties for certain crimes.</p>
<p>Members of the D.C. Council voted to overhaul the century-old criminal code last year. D.C. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the criminal code changes, but councilmembers voted to override the veto.</p>
<p>Still, the issue wasn&#8217;t settled as Congress has the authority to review any legislation passed by the D.C. Council before it becomes law under the Home Rule.</p>
<p>After the Republican majority in the House <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted in February to disapprove</a> of the Revised Criminal Code Act with the support of 31 Democrats, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-he-will-sign-bills-blocking-d-c-s-radical-overhaul-of-voting-rights-criminal-code" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden announced his opposition</a> to the overhaul last week as the Democrat-led Senate took it under consideration.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule – but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections – such as lowering penalties for carjackings,&#8221; Biden tweeted. &#8220;If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did – I’ll sign it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bowser has <a href="https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-announces-revised-criminal-code-amendment-act-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed targeted alterations</a> to the revised code, including restoring maximum penalties for gun crimes and carjackings, as well as delaying its implementation to 2027.</p>

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