WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting chairman of the D.C. Council has circulated a resolution that would make Councilmember Phil Mendelson the interim chairman.

Mendelson would ascend to the district’s second-highest local elected office following last week’s resignation of Kwame Brown, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud.

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