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D.C. Council adopts rules for new session after rejecting move to make general counsel parliamentarian
Summary
The D.C. Council adopted rules for Council Period 26, approving a requirement that committees vote on supplemental committee reports and restoring several advisory bodies to the Transportation committee, while rejecting a proposal to make the general counsel the council parliamentarian and a proposal to lower the threshold for re-referrals.
The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to adopt its Rules of Organization and Procedure for Council Period 26 after several hours of debate over who should serve as the body’s parliamentarian and how referrals of measures may be challenged. Chair Phil Mendelson said the package before the council included the text circulated Dec. 31 plus oral amendments and a written amendment.
Mendelson described two oral changes to committee listings and said he would "strike from the list" certain advisory committees already covered under agency umbrellas and asked the general counsel to correct a facility name to "Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center." He also…
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