Overview

• Proceedings were briefly halted after Rep. Clay Higgins moved to strike Rep. Maxwell Frost’s remarks and members shouted across the dais.
• Committee Republicans advanced a package targeting Washington, D.C.’s criminal justice system, including a Higgins bill to broaden police pursuit powers.
• Frost pressed Higgins on why he backed federal intervention in D.C. but not a National Guard deployment in Louisiana, citing the state’s high death rate.
• The markup coincided with Trump’s emergency takeover of D.C. police expiring at midnight, while the Army authorized the D.C. National Guard through November 30.
• Republicans tied the effort to the president’s Make DC Safe Again agenda as Democrats objected to the process and warned of erosion of the city’s self-rule.