Travis Kalanick, the founder and chief executive of the livery sedan dispatching service Uber, has some new friends: Members of the D.C. Council.

Earlier this evening, after a day of legislative bickering that seemed interminable, the D.C. Council finally delivered what urban professionals, libertarians, Megan McArdle and all the myopic little twits have demanded for months.

Anticipating an overwhelming demand on the livery sector, the D.C. Taxicab Commission announced today that it will be issuing temporary licenses to out-of-market cabbies who want to work during President Obama’s second inauguration.

The D.C. Council gave its nod to legislation that would impose new regulations on Uber and other dispatch services in the city’s burgeoning sedan-for-hire industry.

The exemption from regulation that the sedan-by-smartphone company currently enjoys in D.C. is set to run out in December. But a bill proposed yesterday by Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), would grant that free pass for good.

Even though Ron Linton, the chairman of the D.C. Taxicab Commission, has said that he has heard complaints from Uber customers, his agency’s records show otherwise.