Feb 6, 2012Voter ID bills clears Va. Senate
The Virginia Senate voted to tighten voting restrictions Monday in a party-line vote that Republicans called essential to democracy and that Democrats portrayed as a return to Jim Crow.
The Senate voted 21-20, with Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) breaking a tie vote on the contentious issue. The bill,...
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Feb 6, 2012Gingrich drops quest to get on Va. ballot
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is giving up on getting his name on the Republican presidential ballot in Virginia next month.
Gingrich’s campaign filed paperwork with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond.
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Feb 6, 2012House kills study to reduce solitary confinement in prisons
The Republican-controlled House of Delegates killed a bill that would have required the state to study ways to limit the use of solitary
confinement in state prisons, especially of those who are mentally ill.
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Feb 6, 2012Virginia House passes bills inspired by Penn State scandal
Without debate, the Virginia House of Delegates gave preliminary approval Monday to a handful of bills inspired by the child sexual abuse scandal last year at Penn State University.
The bills — HB3, HB970
and HB1237
— would spell out who is required to report suspected child abuse, would...
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Apr 25, 2008Wash Post: Contenders Reach to Left in House Race
In a matter of months, Northern Virginia's 11th Congressional District has morphed from the home court of popular Republican Tom Davis to a left-leaning battleground in which two major Democratic candidates are spending most of their time trying to outdo each other's liberal credentials.
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