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The USA Freedom Act protects Americans’ civil liberties and enhances our national security. In addition to ending the bulk collection of data by the federal government, the USA Freedom Act increases the transparency of the government’s intelligence-gathering programs by making more information available to the American public.
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In public comments filed today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia urged the Supreme Court of Virginia to adopt the recommendations of the Special Committee on Criminal Discovery Rules.
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Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte is mocking us in his latest article, “USA Freedom Act Protects Civil Liberties and National Security.” He has been sequestered in Washington so long that he believes he can blatantly lie to his constituents in the Valley. This brazen disregard for the intellect and the civil liberties of the citizens of Virginia’s Sixth District and the American people is horrifying.
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The United Nations Economic and Social Council has granted Washington and Lee University “special consultative status,” a prestigious designation granted to qualifying non-governmental organizations and only a select few academic institutions.
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The first person I ever knew who wrote a weekly newspaper column was a teacher in the high school I attended who wrote a column during the period 1961-1965 entitled, “A Hundred Years Ago: The Civil War Day By Day.”
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During a field hearing of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Richmond, Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced that his office will be developing strategies to combat predatory lending that ensnares thousands of Virginians each year in a cycle of debt.
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The hypocritical dichotomy between the treatments of high-level politically connected officials versus lower level whistleblowers has never been more pronounced.
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Attorney General Mark Herring announced that claim forms are going out today to approximately 3,050 SunTrust borrowers in Virginia who lost their homes to foreclosure between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2013 and who may be eligible for payment under the $550 million SunTrust national mortgage foreclosure settlement.
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Renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will give Virginia Tech’s Cutchins Distinguished Lecture, “Leadership Lessons from the White House,” at 7:30 p.m. on March 26 in Burruss Auditorium.
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We all resent the fact that Dominion Power owns the elected officials and pols in both parties in the Commonwealth of Virginia, rather than having our elected “representatives” represent “our” interests.
