White House Report | Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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– Bill signings – Robert Gibbs’ Tuesday press briefing – President talks on community solutions agenda – Town-hall meeting on health care in Virginia on Wednesday
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A clear direction on energy
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We may not yet have a firm grasp on exactly what we need to do to merge the words clean and energy in perfect harmony, even with the 219-212 vote of the House of Representatives on cap-and-trade legislation last week. But we do at least have direction, and considering how much muck was thrown into…
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– Local News: Street closing in Harrisonburg – Capitol Hill: Webb, Warner announce health-center grants – Local News: Wintergreen placing land into preservation – Local News: BC alum honored for Christian service
Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report
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Last week, the U.S. House passed historic legislation to create millions of new jobs in the clean energy economy and increase our national security by reducing our dependence on foreign oil. I supported the American Clean Energy and Security Act because I believe it is a necessary step in declaring our energy independence and creating…
Shahid Buttar | Torturing the rule of law
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Sixty years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson left Washington to pursue what he later called “the most important, enduring, and constructive work of [his] life”: prosecuting international war crimes committed during WWII. Justice Jackson helped usher in a new international regime that promised to help deter human rights abuses.
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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
