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Column by Elias Feghali Submit guest columns: [email protected] Fixing our broken immigration system is vital to America’s economic recovery. As our economy shrinks, state governments are desperate for revenue. Without additional sources of funds, they are increasingly making the decision to cut important social services, raise taxes, or even worse, lay off hard-working state…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.house.gov/perriello One of my top priorities in Congress has been reducing financial burden on middle- and working-class families during these tough economic times. Last week, USA TODAY reported that Americans paid their lowest level of taxes in 2009 since Harry Truman’s presidency. The news story reported: “Federal, state and local…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia has posted back to back months of revenue growth, marking the first time in two years the Commonwealth has achieved this result. The last time the state had back-to-back increases in monthly revenue collection was March-April 2008.
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Column by Jim Webb www.webb.senate.gov In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy – that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base. That focus has been lost, as many on Wall Street have accumulated vast wealth…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov Last week, we received some encouraging news as the Department of Labor announced that the economy added 290,000 jobs in the month of April – 231,000 of them in the private sector. This is the largest number of new jobs in four years and the fourth consecutive month of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] We’ve bailed out Wall Street. Maybe we could term this one the bailout of Sesame Street. “We all have to remember that the federal government came to the aid of Wall Street quickly because they saw the need. We just ask that they would do the same for our…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro didn’t go poof! into the night. There aren’t tumbleweeds running through downtown. (Not yet.) The sun did in fact come up this morning. That’s in spite of another electoral defeat for progressives at the polls in the City Council elections on May 4. Lorie Smith fell short…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.house.gov/perriello I am committed to increased accountability and transparency in government, and pleased to report that we took two important steps forward in this direction last week in Congress.
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] In order to better understand a subject its best to view it from a different angle. So we headed north, being careful to avoid our subject, the city we love to hate. Yes, your humble scribe traveled to New Jersey to get a better fix on…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello today voted to block the automatic pay raise for federal lawmakers for the 2011 fiscal year.
