The District’s three top elected officials are scheduled to testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee about public safety in the nation’s capital.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, all Democrats, will talk about local laws and police department policies that Republican lawmakers blamed for an ongoing crime crisis in the city.

The GOP-controlled House has already overridden some of those D.C. laws, passing four bills this week that propose lowering the age juveniles can be charged as adults, relaxing Metropolitan Police pursuit restrictions and empowering the president to nominate who he wants to sit on the D.C. Superior Court.

Democrats on Capitol Hill repeatedly argued that such moves infringe on the federal city’s autonomy, but Republicans have said they are exercising their constitutional authority over the District.

The legislative push follows President Trump’s monthlong crime emergency in which thousands of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials began patrolling the streets of the District to crack down on violent crime.

The surge resulted in more than 2,300 arrests and double-digit declines in killings, robberies and carjackings.

• Matt Delaney can be reached at mdelaney@washingtontimes.com.