A big shot in the arm: Infrastructure bill would aid Bay restoration
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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
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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.
Republicans block bipartisan Jan. 6 commission
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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.
Spanberger, Neguse press Schumer to call vote on gun violence prevention legislation
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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 Department of Elections completes statewide post-election risk-limiting audit
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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.
House passes $1.9T COVID-19 relief package: The political battle has just begun
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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.
David M. Dozier: All executions are political
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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.
What we learned from how Waynesboro voted in 2020
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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.
Mark Warner gets endorsements from five public sector labor groups
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The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Government Employees, National Treasury Employees Union, Virginia State Association of Letter Carriers, and National Air Traffic Controllers Association are all backing the Mark Warner bid for a third term in the U.S. Senate.
Warner, Kaine going national with Virginia gun control strategy
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The Virginia approach to gun violence is going national with a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate by Mark Warner and Tim Kaine.
