After Uber’s overwhelming email, phone and Twitter campaign, the D.C. Council today passed an amendment that effectively permits the company to continue operating in D.C. with no change to the way it does business.

At a breakfast meeting with her colleagues today, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) reversed her plans to introduce an amendment that would effectively bring the upscale livery service Uber into compliance with D.C. regulations.

Photo by giantminispacegoat Bless DC Agenda’s Lou Chibbaro, Jr., who managed to stay up late enough to watch the Senate vote to block an amendment that would have forced a ballot measure on D.C.’s same-sex marriage law. The amendment, offered by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), was killed after the Senate voted 59-36 to deny a motion to waive the parliamentarian ruling that it was out of order. The vote came sometime after 1 a.m….

Photo by LaTur The New York Times has started posting all the Senate Republican amendments to the health care reform bill, and, surprise, surprise, one of them concerns the District of Columbia’s same-sex marriage law:Bennett amendment: To protect the Democratic process and the right of the people of the District of Columbia to define marriage. (#3568)That’d be Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, of course, and we understand that he has the support of Senators…