While tackling big-ticket legislation in this year’s session like $1 billion in tax relief, the Virginia GOP also passed measures to help mothers and families.
GOP lawmakers passed legislation during this year’s 46-day session to help reform adoption procedures in Virginia.
Under fire after upsetting an eighth-grade African-American girl by handing her a piece of cotton and asking her to imagine being enslaved, Virginia’s First Lady shows a gross negligence of her surroundings.
Republicans say the legislation will result in law-abiding citizens becoming swept up in federal bureaucracy, and is the first step towards establishing a national firearms registry.
“This is a rough time in Virginia, it is not reflective of the values and the people of Virginia, and we’ve had tough times before and we’ve gotten through it and I’m confident we will get through it now,” said Ed Gillespie, the GOP candidate who ran against Northam in 2017.
The vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act compelled lawmakers to defend the indefensible, put names to those disregarding life, revealed the sanctimonious nature of the Democratic Party, and codified the consistent logical and philosophical irregularities of the dehumanization and political categorization that governs the liberal point of view.
As the resolution goes to the Senate, it will test Republican unity as a few moderate GOP senators have signaled they will vote with the liberal side of the aisle.
In the 12th hour of the 2019 legislative session in Richmond, lawmakers rejected a bill aimed at keeping drivers off their phones.
The GOP addressed teacher shortages, bolstered work-based career and technical education, promoted energy-efficient school infrastructure, mitigated risks associated with student-athletes playing sports with concussions, and allowed school boards to begin the school year earlier.
