The District of Columbia is just that it's a district. It's not a state. Until about 1975, it wasn't even a place that had its own mayor or its own locally elected lawmakers. So anything the DC Council or local legislature does still has to go to Congress for review. By unanimous vote, the DC Council passed the district's first overhaul in more than 100 years.
DC is baby.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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