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The General Assembly agreed on a nonbinding definition of the term, but couldn’t compromise on hate crime legislation.
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Crixell Matthews/The day after a mass shooting in Chesapeake, Del. Cliff Hayes Jr. said the nation must discuss firearm homicides. -
The claim that rape is unlikely to lead to pregnancy has “no biological plausibility.”
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Crixell Matthews/Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney is downplaying the role he may have played in the recent resignation of city police Chief Gerald Smith.
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Crixell Matthews/Republicans voted for two earlier coronavirus relief bills that also, among many things, allowed coronavirus relief checks to go to imprisoned people.
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McCarthy will appear with Vega at an Oct. 18 fundraiser in McLean.
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Crixell Matthews/Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently gave his blessings to an “Election Integrity Unit” to investigate and prosecute violations of Virginia’s election laws.
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At issue is a bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would set a national ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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Crixell Matthews/Abigail Spanberger, seeking a third term in Congress this fall, is running against Republican Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor.
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Greg Nash/AP/Pool The HillCline’s comparison is based on his faulty premise that the law will provide $80 billion to “double the size of the IRS, adding an army of 87,000 new enforcement agents.”
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Crixell Matthews/Good says Democrats all but declared war on the middle class by supporting a tax and spending bill that will expand the Internal Revenue Service.
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The General Assembly is hashing out a new two-year state budget that will go into effect July 1. Former Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, proposed his final budget in December 2021 - one month before leaving office. The House and the Senate separately amended Northam’s plan, and each chamber approved its own two-year budget. -
During a meeting with state Senate budget writers in February, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration laid out what it sees as troubling trends in Virginia’s economy.
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Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) recently said Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson “detests the constitution” and essentially thinks there should be no restrictions on abortion.
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Virginia is among three states that fully tax military pensions, according to the web sites. It joins California and Vermont. Another 12 states tax the retirement pay, but at reduced levels.
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Several lawmakers have recently claimed that more than half of Virginia's schools are at least 50 years old. PolitiFact VA found that's True. The median school is 52 years old.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Virginia families, fighting to cope with inflation, don’t take solace in the state’s economic outlook. We fact checked Youngkin’s claim about the state’s economic growth, which he made repeatedly during last year’s campaign, and found it credible, but a little low.
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Three times in recent years, Del. Israel O’Quinn of Washington County has joined his fellow Republicans in the House of Delegates in unanimously supporting a bill that would have prohibited candidates from using campaign funds for personal expenses.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin is vowing to improve student performance in Virginia’s public schools, but he consistently omits the caveat that Virginia students perform better than those from most states.
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Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears recently told Fox News that critical race theory “is definitely being taught in some form or fashion,” in Virginia’s public schools.
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When it comes to performance on standardized national exams, Virginia’s fourth graders rank near the top and its eighth graders rank high in math and at the national average in reading. Youngkin does not offer this important perspective.
