
Speaker Howell welcomes White House offshore drilling proposal
Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Bill Howell (R-Stafford) welcomed the White House’s proposal to allow drilling for oil and natural gas off the coast of Virginia.

Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Bill Howell (R-Stafford) welcomed the White House’s proposal to allow drilling for oil and natural gas off the coast of Virginia.

With week two of the 2015 General Assembly session underway, I would like to provide a quick recap of all that happened in week one.

Transcript of President Obama delivering the 2015 State of the Union address to Congress.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, released the following statement today at the conclusion of a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

A new VCU poll indicates strong support among Virginians for legislative proposals that would require university faculty or staff to report to police within 48 hours any alleged criminal sexual assaults that come to their attention.

Text of remarks from House Speaker Bill Howell on the opening of the 2015 Virginia General Assembly session.

On Friday, Mitt Romney finally told the truth about his interest in a third presidential run to a room full of Republican donors, as if he hadn’t planned for this all along.

Bob McDonnell is about to pull two years of hard time in a federal prison for accepting loans and gifts from a political benefactor.

Just last month a panel appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe to look at ethics issues in state government recommended that Virginia establish an independent redistricting commission to draw legislative district lines.

House Republican leaders announced their education agenda for the 2015 General Assembly on a press conference call with reporters Thursday.
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