The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed two bills aimed at overhauling Washington, DC’s age of criminal responsibility and lenient sentencing guidelines with bipartisan support.

The DC CRIMES Act cleared the lower chamber in a 240-179 vote, with 31 Democrats joining all Republicans except for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) .

The second bill, H.R. 5140, passed in a 225-203 vote, with eight Democrats backing it and just one Republican, Massie, voting against it.

US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro hailed the votes as a “critical first step following President Trump’s highly successful surge to address violent crime in DC.”

“He is the first president to recognize the out-of-control crime and the fact that it can be stopped,” Pirro told The Post.

“The fact that

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