It seemed simple enough: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the District’s nonvoting delegate in the House, introduced a bill to name a D.C. post office after Chuck Brown, a beloved local music legend known as the “Godfather of Go-Go.”

But Republicans on the House Oversight Committee removed her bill from the agenda at their Tuesday meeting because of Brown’s criminal record, preventing the bill from moving forward.

“Committee members raised concerns about advancing a postal naming bill for an individual convicted of murder,” a spokesman for the Oversight Committee Republicans said in a statement. The bill, which would name the post office at 3401 12th Street NE after Brown, was withdrawn to “allow for further review and discussion.”

Norton said during the hearing she was “deeply disappoin

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