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The Virginia Senate voted 21-19, along party lines, to decline to take up the nomination of controversial former Trump administration EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to serve as Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources.
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China poses the most significant foreign challenge to the United States in the 21st century.
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The House of Representatives voted 222-210, largely along party lines, on Friday to pass the America COMPETES Act, a legislative package pushed by Democrats to make American business more competitive.
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The Republicans in Augusta County want to do something about the county courthouse, but the Republicans in Staunton won’t let them.
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Legislation repealing the staged increases in Virginia’s minimum wage has passed the Virginia House of Delegates on a party-line vote.
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The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections voted 9-6 Tuesday to remove Andrew Wheeler from SJ 84, a resolution to confirm Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s cabinet-level appointments.
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A wide bipartisan majority of Virginians support a proposed Senate bill (SB 376) to create a Prescription Drug Affordability Board, according to a new Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy poll.
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You don’t have to be unvaccinated or a conspiracy theorist or even anti-government to be worried about what lies ahead.
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, nominated to the court by Bill Clinton in 1994, announced Wednesday his plans to retire, giving President Biden his first chance at a high-court pick.
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Nothing in one part of the country is truly “alien” if it affects any other part. To the extent that the voting power and political voice of millions of people is diminished anywhere, it affects the quality of democracy everywhere.
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