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House Speaker Bill Howell on Wednesday ruled that Senate amendments to legislation redrawing political boundary lines were not germane to the the original House bill, throwing the future of the controversial party-line action of two weeks ago in doubt.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell’s transportation funding plan is on life support in the Virginia General Assembly, and the Republican is pointing the finger at Senate Democrats, who voted en masse to block the package in a series of votes on Tuesday.
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It was resolution time Monday night on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates, and the Republican-majority chamber was in a conspiracy-theory-validating mood. The House voted to support a resolution to fund a $17,440 study of an alternative currency in the event of a breakdown in the Federal Reserve system and a second measure prohibiting any local government in Virginia from implementing the non-binding Agenda 21 initiative aimed at promoting sustainable development.
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The House and State Senate, in separate votes on Tuesday, advanced legislation that Democratic critics say will incease barriers to voting for hundreds of thousands of Virginians.
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Two General Assembly committees voted on Sunday to pass budget bills that may make it harder to expand Medicaid coverage to more than 300,000 Virginia families.
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The Virginia Dream Act, which would have given young people with deferred action status in-state tuition at Virginia’s public colleges, went down to defeat in the Senate Education and Health Committee on a party-line vote of 8-7.
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In yet another year of concerns over budget balancing, Virginians remain strongly supportive of funding for public schools, according to a new statewide survey conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University.
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In a Tom DeLay, Texas-style move, Republicans in the Virginia State Senate redrew the legislative district lines without public notice or involvement. This action in the 20-20 divided body came on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday when Democratic Senator Henry Marsh, who is one of Virginia’s most prominent civil rights leaders, was away attending President Obama’s inauguration.
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A State Senate committee voted Tuesday to kill legislation that would have set a new course for apportioning Virginia’s 13 electoral votes. The proposal would have broken up the state’s electoral votes by congressional district rather than the current winner-take-all system that allowed Democrat Barack Obama to win the state in each of the past two presidential cycles.
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Senate Democrats are drawing attention today to a vote in the Senate Finance Committee advancing legislation introduced by Republican State Sen. Bill Carrico that instucts localities to subject “suspicious” welfare recipients to drug tests.
