1. Short title This Act may be cited as the District of Columbia Home Rule Improvement Act . 2. Findings; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The District of Columbia was granted limited autonomy in 1973 by Congress, who at the time did not wish to intervene in the day-to-day governance of the city. (2) This grant of limited autonomy by Congress may be revoked by Congress at any time. (3) Article 1, section 8, clause 17 of the United States Constitution provides Congress with the exclusive jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. (4) This clause was included for specific reasons, notably the fact that the operation of the seat of the Federal Government of the United States, whose laws affect approximately 330 million Americans, should not be impeded by local ordinances, actions, or taxation. (5) The Framers of the Constitution had good reason for this concern, having witnessed the reluctance of local authorities to police disorderly conduct by protestors in June of 1783, conduct that forced the adjournment of the Congress and the flight of its members into neighboring States. (6) James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 43, The indispensable necessity of compleat authority at the seat of Government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every Legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings be interrupted, with impunity