Hearing: “Oversight of the District of Columbia”

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Thursday, September 18, 2025 (10:00 AM)

HVC-210 CAPITOL
Washington, D.C.

Witnesses

Ms. Muriel Bowser
Mayor, District of Columbia

Added 09/15/2025 at 02:23 PM
  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM
  • Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM

Mr. Gregory Jackson, Jr.
Former Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Special Assistant to the President

Added 09/17/2025 at 05:04 PM
  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 09/18/2025 at 09:05 AM
  • Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 09/18/2025 at 09:05 AM
  • Bio [PDF] Added 09/18/2025 at 09:05 AM

Mr. Phil Mendelson
Council Chairman, District of Columbia

Added 09/15/2025 at 02:23 PM
  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM
  • Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM
  • Bio [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM

Mr. Brian Schwalb
Attorney General, District of Columbia

Added 09/15/2025 at 02:23 PM
  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM
  • Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM
  • Bio [PDF] Added 09/17/2025 at 03:53 PM

Support Documents

  • Notice [PDF]
  • Memo [PDF] Added 09/15/2025 at 02:23 PM
  • Perry - Article - A Real Task Force Can Get DC Moving in the Right Direction - Fines and Fees Justice Center [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • Perry - Traffic Data - MPDC [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Ansari - Article - A congressman spared prison as a teen tells DC to be tough on youth - Washington Post [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Ansari - Article - Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned - NPR [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Bell - Article - GOP governors are sending troops to DC - CNN [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Bell - Article - MAHA child health report ignores gun violence, the leading cause of child death - LA Times [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Bell - Article - Trump administration cuts school mental health grants created after shootings - The Washington Post [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Bell - Article - U.S. Attorney Will No Longer Bring Felony Charges Against People For Carrying Rifles or Shotguns in DC - AP News [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Biggs - Article - ‘Radical’ DC officials treated officers ‘like crap,’ police leader says - Fox News [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Biggs - Article - Murdered Congressional intern's mom says Trump should take over Washington, DC - ABC News [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Biggs - Article - Trump DC Crime Crackdown Busts Another Alleged Tren De Aragua Gang Member - Fox News [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Biggs - Article - Trump Executive Order Targets DC Crime As City Hits 12 Days Without Homicide - Fox News [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Biggs - Article - Yes – Prosecuting & Arresting Criminals Would Have Immediate Impact on D.C.’s Crime - NSSF [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Biggs - Letter from Committee to AG-Schwalb re Gun Store Litigation [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Biggs - Memorandum Decision and Order - Maryland_v_Engage_Armament [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Comer - H.R. 5371 Continuing Resolution [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Crockett - Article - Charlie Kirk Suspect’s Grandma Says Family Is All MAGA - Yahoo News [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Crockett - Article - 'I Couldn’t Care Less’ Trump’s Downplaying of Right-Wing Violence - Democracy Docket [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Crockett - Article - Map Shows US Cities Where Homicide Rates Are Highest - Newsweek [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Crockett - Article - The 21st Century Red State Murder Crisis – Third Way [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Crockett - Article - The GOP States With Guards Deployed to DC Have Urban Murder Rates Higher Than DC - American Prospect [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Crockett - Article - Trump Called for a Crackdown on the ‘Radical Left.’ But Right-Wing Extremists Are Responsible for More - Time [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Frost - Article - The Good News About Murder - Washington Post [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Greene - Phil Mendelson post - X [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Min - Article - DC National Guard deployment to cost $200M as soldiers pick up trash, blow leaves - USA Today [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - Article - DC still waits for Congress to restore $1 billion in funding during crime crackdown - WTOP [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - CREW DC Letter in Support of HRes 115 - Donald Sherman [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - Letter in Support of Constitutionality of Statehood for Washington D.C. [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - Letter in Support of DC - NUL_GWUL [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - Letter in Support of DC Statehood - DC Vote Coalition [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - Letter Opposing Restricting Autonomy of DC - Brady [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - Sign-on Letter on DC Policing Takeover - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Norton - Statement for the Record - Burger [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Simon - Article - Most oppose Trump deploying National Guard to DC_other cities_poll - The Hill [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Simon - Article - US Justice Dept grant cuts valued at $811 million - Reuters [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Stansbury - Article - Laboratories of Democracy Washington, DC showed how to do universal pre-K right - Vox [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Stansbury - Article - Prosecutors already have dropped nearly a dozen cases from Trump's DC crime surge - ABC News [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM
  • UC - Tlaib - Article - We asked 604 D.C. residents about Trump’s takeover. Here’s what they said - The Washington Post [PDF] Added 10/24/2025 at 10:16 AM

Votes

  • Vote #1: Motion to Table Khanna Motion to Subpoena Brendan Carr [PDF] Added 09/18/2025 at 04:19 PM

Hearing Record

  • Attendance Sheet [PDF] Added 09/18/2025 at 04:15 PM

First Published: September 11, 2025 at 03:47 PM
Last Updated: October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM