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The United States Senate voted 53-47 Thursday to confirm the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court, a historic vote that makes Judge Brown the first African American female on the high court.
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Don Beyer (D-VA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Joe Morelle (D-NY), and Kaialiʻi Kahele (D-HI) introduced legislation to make rapid at-home COVID tests more widely available to the American people.
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Virginia Tech political science expert Karen Hult says that Democrats and Republicans will use the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol to push their political agenda and rally supporters.
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You want to know how serious Virginia Democrats are about protecting a woman’s right to an abortion? They’ve still got a couple of weeks to pass legislation protecting the right to choose, but then, that would impact their holiday vacation plans.
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We just had an election that turned at least in part on the economy, specifically rising prices due to supply chain issues lingering from the COVID pandemic.
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U.S. Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA) and Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) are urging the Biden administration to require proof of vaccination or a recent negative test for airline passengers.
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I grew up in a small hamlet called Crimora, Va., zip code 24431, population 2,207, number of stoplights, zero.
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The House voted 228-206 late Friday to finally pass the bipartisan infrastructure package that had passed the Senate way back in August.
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The McAuliffe campaign team knew that it wasn’t going to do well in my part of Virginia, that committing resources to Augusta County, Rockingham County, Rockbridge County, would only take away from what it could commit to Northern Virginia.
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Republicans will gain six seats in the House of Delegates in the 2021 cycle, giving the GOP a 51-49 majority in the lower chamber.
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