Bipartisan cooperation — especially around the management of the nation’s capital — is rare, if not nonexistent these days.
$2,400 for the crack). In 1997, in the midst of Barry’s scandal-tarred reign, conservative columnist George Will called the city a “national embarrassment.” Only last year, Rep. Andrew S. Clyde described D.C. as a “disgrace to our country” and floated the idea of repealing Home Rule.officials and Republican leaders have met privately or otherwise maintained lines of communication, a level of cooperation that appears to have eroded during President Donald Trump’s tenure.
since taking office in 2015, and described her relations with Speaker Kevin McCarthy as friendly. Perry said that Bowser was open to continuing to meet with Republican lawmakers, though she added: “The thing I would not encourage the mayor to do is meet with people just to be insulted.” President Richard M. Nixon in 1970 approved a bill granting D.C. a nonvoting delegate in the House. Three years later, he signed a bill granting D.C. Home Rule. In 1978, a group of Republicans, which included conservatives such as Sen. Strom Thurmond and Sen. Barry Goldwater , pushed for D.C. to get representation in both the House and Senate, a proposed constitutional amendmentGeorge Derek Musgrove, a University of Maryland at Baltimore historian who has written about D.C.
“Our goal, our vision should be to have the best capital city in the world and to make that real,” he said.Bernard Demczuk, who served as Barry’s liaison to Congress at the time, said Barry and Gingrich spoke regularly, both in person at the speaker’s U.S. Capitol office and on the phone. Demczuk said Gingrich and Barry, who was born in Mississippi and had deep roots in the civil rights movement, had a shared interest in Southern history.
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