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D.C.’s ‘shocking’ crime trend leaves Congress with no choice but to intervene, says House’s Comer

Members of the Washington, D.C. government are sworn-in before testifying during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee's hearing about Congressional oversight of the Nation's Capital, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left; D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, Council Member Charles Allen, CFO Glen Lee, and D.C. Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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A powerful House chairman on Wednesday said the District of Columbia has “deteriorated and declined” across the board in recent years, leaving Congress no choice but to step in and restore public safety in the nation’s capital on behalf of residents, workers and visitors.

In this March 31, 2015, photo, a Fairfax County, Va. police cruiser is shown with its emergency lights on. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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An undated photo provided by the Department of Energy shows crude oil pipes at the Bryan Mound site near Freeport, Texas. (Department of Energy via AP, File)

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Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. speaks, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, during the spring training media day in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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People visit the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., April 18, 2022. The first meeting of the new board of Walt Disney World’s government — overhauled by sweeping legislation signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as an apparent punishment for Disney publicly challenging Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill — dealt with the rote affairs any other municipal government handles. Board members on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, faced calls for better firefighter equipment, lessons on public records requests and bond ratings. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

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This photo provided by the Arapahoe County, Colo., Sheriff's Office shows Reginald Maclaren, an 81-year-old Colorado man accused of killing his wife and daughter with an axe, who told police he lost his job and was afraid they would end up homeless. Maclaren told police he didn’t regret killing them because he “knows they are in a better place,” according to court documents. (Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice delivers his annual State of the State address in the House Chambers at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, File)

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington. After nine days of being locked out of his Twitter work computer, Haraldur Thorleifsson tweeted at owner Elon Musk, Monday, March 6, 2023, to find out whether or not he’d been fired. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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A WrestleMania sign hangs over the crowd during the WWE Monday Night RAW event, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Boston. WWE’s WrestleMania arrives this weekend, Saturday, April 1, to a massive audience and vastly larger advertising revenue as it seeks to establish itself as a serious contender for major advertising bucks. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., arrives for a hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to examine the Department of Agriculture, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 16, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, confers with House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, as Republican leaders meet with reporters following a closed-door briefing on the budget that will be submitted by President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, speaks during a campaign event, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in San Antonio. Cuellar, a 17-year incumbent and one of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress, is in his toughest reelection campaign, facing a May 24 primary runoff against progressive Jessica Cisneros. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Pope Francis hospitalized in Rome following chest pains, infection, will remain ‘several days’

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The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 10, 2023. The Supreme Court won’t hear a civil rights case brought by the parents of a teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was fatally shot by an Oklahoma police officer in 2019. The high court on Monday, March 27, rejected without comment the lawsuit bought by Isaiah Lewis' parents. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice delivers his annual State of the State address in the House Chambers at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, File)

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Protesters of Kentucky Senate bill SB150, known as the Transgender Health Bill gather at the steps of the Senate chamber of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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Dr. Amos C. Brown Jr., vice chair for the California Reparations Task Force, right, holds a copy of the book "Songs of Slavery and Emancipation," as he and other members of the task force pose for photos at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on June 16, 2022. Economists for a California reparations task force estimate the state owes Black residents at least $800 billion for harms in policing, housing and health. The preliminary estimate will be discussed at the Wednesday, March 29, 2023, meeting of the state reparations task force. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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