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– Capitol Hill: Perriello, Hoyer, to discuss PAYGO at UVa. – Local News: New traffic pattern at Exit 247 interchange in Harrisonburg
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– State News: Virginia to team up with Microsoft on tech training for displaced workers – Event: JMU to host acclaimed poet – Capitol Hill: Warner introduces health-care reform
Webb discusses criminal-justice bill
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U.S. Sen. Jim Webb joins “The Chris Graham Show” via conference call to discuss his bill to create a blue-ribbon commission to study the nation’s criminal-justice system with an eye toward proposing and enacting systemic reforms in areas including sentencing guidelines, prison administration and drug enforcement. Length: 4:54.
Erik Camayd-Freixas | What court ruling on identity theft means to migrants
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In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ignacio Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican migrant worker from Illinois convicted of identity theft in 2007. Like most migrant workers, Flores-Figueroa did not know that the Social Security number in the false papers he was forced to buy in order to get work was a number that…
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– Economy: National unemployment rate pushes up in May – Local News: Staunton water plants win recognition – Local News: Tip a Cop to help Special Olympics – Politics: Clark endorses Signer – Capitol Hill: Perriello veterans legislation gaining support in Congress
Letter | Wende Marshall
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In 2007, more than 1 million Virginians were without any health care coverage and the health-care crisis in Virginia is growing. Families USA estimated that in 2006 more than 10 working-age Virginians died each week due to lack of health insurance.
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– Capitol Hill: Warner concludes visit to Middle East – Politics: Byrne endorses Deeds – Local News: Murder-suicide in Staunton – Capitol Hill: Biden calls for report on green economic opportunities – Capitol Hill: Senators announce education funding – Capitol Hill: Perriello pushes expanded health-care access for rural veterans – Event: Stuart Hall presents a…
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– Economy: Initial unemployment claims down – Capitol Hill: Webb calls for transparency in aid to Pakistan
President Obama’s remarks on national security, Gitmo
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National Archives, Washington, D.C., 10:28 a.m., Thursday, May 21, 2009: Good morning, everybody. Please be seated. Thank you all for being here. Let me just acknowledge the presence of some of my outstanding Cabinet members and advisors. We’ve got our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. We have our CIA Director Leon Panetta. We have our…
Mark Warner | Protecting consumers from fraud, credit card abuses
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Our recent efforts in Washington are focused on consumer relief and protection as we continue working to reinvigorate our sluggish economy. I am very hopeful that, by mid-summer, we will have a much clearer picture of whether our efforts to create jobs through smart, long-overdue investments in our country’s future have taken hold.
