Several D.C. Council members are questioning Mayor Adrian Fenty’s commitment to the legislative process after his administration declined to send witnesses to testify during recent council hearings.

In the case of Council Member Phil Mendelson, chairman of the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, the executive has refused to participate twice in the last week, once for a hearing on domestic-partnership expansion and again on a bill tied to the case of a mentally ill man who gouged his eyes out while under D.C.’s care.