
Virginia Senate committee tables assault-weapons ban
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to table a bill that would put a ban on assault weapons, with four Democrats joining Republicans to push the bill into 2021.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to table a bill that would put a ban on assault weapons, with four Democrats joining Republicans to push the bill into 2021.

The Augusta County Board of Supervisors is actually going to waste your money on whether or not it should call for a voluntary muster of the county’s unorganized militia.

A new Seton Hall Sports Poll has America believing strongly that the Houston Astros should be stripped of their 2017 World Series title.

Bernie Sanders was a close second in the Iowa caucuses, but the Vermont senator is the new leader in a national poll from Quinnipiac University.

A bill that would commit Virginia to a process effectively ending the outdated Electoral College passed a House of Delegates committee on Friday.

One thing folks are missing with the still-ongoing Iowa Democratic caucus count is: Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are the two big winners, no matter who it is who ends up first.

On the one hand, you’ve got Nancy Pelosi, ripping apart her copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address.

The ongoing, at this writing, wait for results from the Iowa Democratic caucus is, to U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, a learning moment with an eye to November.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., announced today that he will vote to convict President Trump at the end of the Senate impeachment trial.

Creigh Deeds believes Virginia will join the growing list of states with nonpartisan or bipartisan redistricting.
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