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Lawmakers continue to call on IRS to address ongoing customer service delays

Rebecca Barnabi
Published date: August 16, 2022 | 3:35 pm
Updated: September 4, 2022 | 6:20 pm
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Customer service concerns and ongoing processing backlogs are why 93 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate continue to encourage the Internal Revenue Service to resolve issues.

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Infrastructure package makes its way through Congress

AFP
Published date: August 23, 2021 | 12:04 am
Updated: August 23, 2021 | 8:51 am
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American farmers and agribusinesses are positioned to be more competitive in the global economy with the U.S. Senate’s Aug. 10 passage of President Joe Biden’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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A big shot in the arm: Infrastructure bill would aid Bay restoration

Bay Journal News Service
Published date: August 15, 2021 | 12:51 pm
Updated: July 14, 2025 | 6:36 pm
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The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort stands to get a hefty infusion of funding from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal reached in the U.S. Senate.

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Herring calls for passage of the federal Equality Act

AFP
Published date: June 25, 2021 | 12:05 am
Updated: June 24, 2021 | 5:18 pm
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring has joined a coalition of 25 attorneys general in calling on the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that protects individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Republicans block bipartisan Jan. 6 commission

Chris Graham
Published date: May 28, 2021 | 3:39 pm
Updated: June 21, 2025 | 6:02 pm
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The U.S. Senate voted 54-35 Friday in favor of creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, falling six votes short of blocking a threatened Republican filibuster.

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Spanberger, Neguse press Schumer to call vote on gun violence prevention legislation

AFP
Published date: April 3, 2021 | 6:48 pm
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Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Joe Neguse (D-CO-02) are leading 65 of their House colleagues in urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bring two gun safety bills to the floor of the U.S. Senate for a vote.

virginia politics

Virginia Department of Elections completes statewide post-election risk-limiting audit

AFP
Published date: March 2, 2021 | 4:55 pm
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The Virginia Department of Elections has completed the state’s risk-limiting audit, confirming that the original count of the votes accurately portrayed the winners of the election in Virginia for president and the U.S. Senate.

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House passes $1.9T COVID-19 relief package: The political battle has just begun

Chris Graham
Published date: February 27, 2021 | 9:26 am
Updated: June 23, 2025 | 5:50 pm
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The House of Representatives, by a razor-thin 219-212 margin, voted in the wee hours of Saturday morning to pass President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, setting up the next political battle in the U.S. Senate.

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David M. Dozier: All executions are political

AFP
Published date: February 26, 2021 | 9:18 am
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At his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate on Feb. 22, President Biden’s pick for attorney general continued the Democratic Party’s slow walk back from its historical support of the death penalty.

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What we learned from how Waynesboro voted in 2020

Chris Graham
Published date: November 9, 2020 | 2:34 pm
Updated: June 23, 2025 | 6:14 pm
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Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Waynesboro with his 46.3 percent showing in the 2020 election. That’s the good news. The head-scratcher: that the guy who barely tried actually ended up beating Mark Warner in the city in the U.S. Senate race.

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