Legislation would increase healthcare options for retired first responders
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Many police officers and fire fighters retire early because of the unique physical demands, stress and hazards of their professions.
Search Results for Abigail Spanberger
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Legislation would formally, finally declare end to long-over Gulf, Iraq wars
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The Gulf and Iraq wars are still, oddly, ongoing, because Congress hasn’t voted to formally end them.
Six Virginia localities receive Infrastructure Act funding to improve traffic safety
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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Joe Biden in November 2021 is making road safety improvements possible in several Virginia localities.
Democrats can’t get out of their own way on House GOP anti-‘socialism’ resolution
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The U.S. House voted last week to pass a resolution condemning “socialism,” the latest example of gotcha politics at its worst, and messaging disguised as governance.
‘Fundamentally and necessarily opposed’: House resolution condemns socialism
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The U.S. House condemned socialism last Thursday in a bipartisan majority with a resolution that “denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America.”
HUD grant to provide housing, services to homeless population in Virginia
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In Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania and Stafford, Va., the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded grant funding to provide housing and supportive service to Virginians experiencing homelessness and people facing domestic violence.
Lawmakers introduce resolution to remove ratification deadline on Equal Rights Amendment
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia joined their colleagues in introducing the resolution to remove the deadline.
Head Start could hire work-study college students with new legislation
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Legislation reintroduced yesterday would allow Head Start programs to employ work-study college students in part-time positions.
Should Members of Congress be able to use inside information to buy, sell stocks?
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Members of Congress shouldn’t be able to trade individual stocks. Simple as that. What they do daily in Congress making laws gives them too much inside information.
Bipartisan U.S. House vote creates committee to study growing global influence of China
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A rare actual bipartisan vote in the U.S. House created a new committee to investigate the Chinese Communist Party’s growing global influence.
