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After hearing from small business owners and farmers across the 5th District, Congressman Robert Hurt (R-VA) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor regarding the need to reduce unnecessary government regulations to help grow the economy and create jobs. “Madame Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the people of Virginia’s 5th District…
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I was at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in the District of Columbia last week when President Barack Obama delivered his third annual back-to-school speech to students at Banneker and by video to students throughout the country. For many students his pep talk to work hard, stay in school, and be successful was appropriate, but…
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Ed Huckaby had never seen it before. OK, he’s seen teams run a backdoor pick to free up a guy cutting the basket for an alley-oop pass and a slam dunk. “That was the first time I saw a team run an alley-oop for a point guard,” saw Huckaby, the head coach of the Fishburne…
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Remedy Rule, a freshman at Western Albemarle High School, won the 2010/11 swimmer of the year award at the Virginia Swimming awards banquet held on Oct. 2 in Richmond. Rule was named the female swimmer of the year in the 13/14 year old age group. This is the third consecutive year she has won the…
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reported today that Virginia wheat producers averaged 71 bushels per acre, up from last year’s yield of 51 bushels per acre. Virginia wheat was grown on 270,000 acres, with 250,000 acres harvested for grain. Wheat production was 17,750,000 bushels, up almost 125 percent when compared to 2010….
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When I asked Virginians in 2008 for the privilege of serving them in the United States Senate, I pledged to go to Washington to try to lead a “radical bipartisan center” that would work together to find common ground to solve our nation’s biggest challenges. As our country’s $14.7 trillion national debt grows by more…
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We spent this past District Work Week making more stops across Central and Southside Virginia to meet with, hear from, and talk to 5th District Virginians. To kick off the week, we held constituent office hours in Danville and Charlottesville. This gave me the opportunity to sit down and meet with constituents in their communities…
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To write that Virginia’s overtime win over Idaho Saturday wasn’t pretty is giving the team way too much credit. It was about as ugly as anything I have ever seen on display in my 30-plus years of watching UVa. football. Uglier than watching a Sonny Randle-led team surrender 60-plus points in four straight games in…
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Brisk temperatures and sunny skies seemed to contribute to the “great community building experience” that epitomized the 45th annual Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale held Friday evening and Saturday, Sept. 30- Oct. 1, at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds. This year’s sale raised approximately $301,477 for the worldwide relief and service program of Mennonite Central Committee, up…
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Fueled by 297 yards rushing and seven quarterback sacks from its defense the James Madison football team powered past the University of Richmond 31-7 at Bridgeforth Stadium on Saturday. JMU won its fourth straight game to improve to 4-1 this season and 2-0 in the Colonial Athletic Association. UR lost its second straight, dropping to…
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