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Sixth District Republican Congressman Ben Cline introduced the Notify ICE Act on Wednesday. The bill would require that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement be notified when an illegal immigrant is denied the ability to purchase a firearm through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
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Virginia’s state law-making body, the General Assembly, adjourned sine die, until another day, this past Sunday one day later than its scheduled adjournment date.
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Sen. Mark Warner joined eight other senators, Republicans and Democrats, in writing to Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, encouraging him to utilize U.S.-China trade negotiations to ensure that China lifts its ban on U.S. poultry products.
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Virginia Republicans are playing some ugly politics right now with Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.
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I recently held a meeting in the Ninth District with board members of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, as well as children who live with juvenile diabetes.
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Senate Democrats celebrated an expansion of voting rights as SB1026 passed both the House of Delegates and Senate and now moves to the governor for his signature.
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The State Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment last month, and 81 percent of Virginians support ERA ratification. But the House refused Thursday to even take up a resolution passing the ERA for a vote.
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Virginia Senate Democrats led a bipartisan effort to overturn a Jim Crow-era exemption from the state’s minimum wage law that has remained in place for decades.
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Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton issued the following statement on the passage of a government funding bill.
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Despite all the distraction associated with events in Richmond these days, the General Assembly is staying on task dealing with legislative and budgetary issues it faces.
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