Every two years DC Council members move to new comittees as former members depart and new folks come in. By Council Rule—or the Chairman’s fiat—new members don’t get to chair a committee in their first half-term, but everyone else does. Only one new member was elected in 2024, Ward 7’s Wendell Felder, but Ward 8’s Trayon White has been expelled, so the number of Committees once again stays at 10 (not counting the Committee of the Whole, which everyone is a member of and which is chaired by Chairman Mendelson, who does not sit on any other committees.)
It’s hard to keep track of who’s on which committee, so here’s my biennial attempt to make it easier. For what agency is under which committee—which also changes every two years—see the companion post.
Committee members who dropped in the next Council Period—either because they left Council, or just moved to another Committee—are marked thusly, while new members will appear like this.
Update Oct. 2025: Trayon White was re-elected in July and re-sworn in August as Ward 8 Councilmember. However, Chairman Mendelson has to date refused to appoint him to any committees, so nothing else has changed.
Update II Feb. 2026: Kenyan McDuffie resigned at the beginning of 2026 as At-Large Councilmember, and was replaced by his former staffer, Doni Crawford. McDuffie’s Committee on Business and Economic Development has been dissolved and replaced with a smaller Subcommittee on Local Business Development, chaired by Wendell Felder, with most agencies being distributed among the remaining committees. Crawford takes McDuffie’s seats on most committees, except that instead of the new Local Business Development committee, she joins the Transportation committee.
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Committee of the Whole
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Business and Economic Development
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Business and Economic Development
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Business and Economic Development
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Sub-Committee on Local Business Development
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Education
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Committee Most agencies reassigned to the Committee of the Whole, but not all. Check the current DC Council Committees post to confirm assignments. |
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Labor and Workforce Development
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Labor
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Executive Administration and Labor
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Executive Administration and Labor
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Executive Administration and Labor
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Human Services
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Facilities
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Facilities
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Health
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Health
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Health
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Health
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Housing and
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Housing
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Housing
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Housing
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Recreation and Youth Affairs
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Recreation, Libraries, and Youth Affairs
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Recreation, Libraries, and Youth Affairs
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Human Services
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T. White stripped of chairmanship and committee dissolved, September 2024. Members and responsibilities divided between temporary Committee of the Whole Sub-Committees on Recreation and Community Affairs, chaired by Matt Frumin (Ward 3) with Kenyan R. McDuffie (At-Large) and Brianne K. Nadeau (Ward 1), and the Libraries and Youth Affairs, chaired by Zachary Parker (Ward 5) with Anita Bonds (At-Large) and Robert C. White, Jr. (At-Large). |
Youth Affairs
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Youth Affairs
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Judiciary and Public Safety
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Judiciary and Public Safety
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Judiciary and Public Safety
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Judiciary and Public Safety
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Judiciary and Public Safety
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Facilities
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Government Operations
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Public Works and Operations
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Public Works and Operations
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Government Operations
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Transportation and the Environment
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Transportation and the Environment
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Transportation and the Environment
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Transportation and the Environment
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Transportation and the Environment
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Finance and Revenue
Evans stripped of chairmanship and committee dissolved, July 2019. Responsibilities distributed among Committee of the Whole, Business and Economic Development, and other committees. |
Sub-Committee on Redistricting
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Special Committee on COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery
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Citation
@online{swiderski2025,
author = {Swiderski, J. I.},
title = {DC {Council} Committees~Comparison, 2025 Edition},
date = {2025-02-22},
url = {https://jski.net/posts/dc-council-2025.html},
langid = {en}
}