For the upcoming session in January, Delegate Dave LaRock (R-Loudoun) said his biggest legislative priorities are conforming the Commonwealth’s tax code to federal guidelines, helping families secure state funds for their children to attend private K-12 schools in emergency situations, and to expand broadband connections across rural Virginia.
As the General Assembly has just 30 days of official work in Richmond scheduled so far this year, which has traditionally been extended to 45 calendar days, Republicans representing Southwest Virginia will work on five broader subjects and areas of legislative action that include providing funding for public education, reforming the state’s tax code, upgrading Interstate-81, combating the opioid crisis statewide, and legislation to proliferate and regulate sports betting and casino-style gaming.
“Concern over immigrant welfare use is justified, as households headed by non-citizens use means-tested welfare at high rates,” says the Center for Immigration Studies as President Trump looks to the DHS proposal that will enforce “public charge[s]” to non-citizen immigrants that use public assistance programs.
Patients in the City of Martinsville are prescribed more opioids than anywhere else in the country. In fact, doctors and clinicians in the area, which is home to just under 14,000 residents, prescribed almost 4,090 morphine milligram equivalents per person, with the national average being 640 milligram equivalents per person.
With the lucky first draw among freshman legislators picking offices in downtown Washington, D.C., Virginia’s Congressman-elect Ben Cline chose room 1009 in the Longworth House Office Building, adding that his pick would house “lots of room for visiting constituents.”
General Motors is cutting jobs in the restructuring of their company as cars that were subsidizing by the Obama-era White House have lost their hyped appeal and are not selling anymore in a future world that never came. With cheap oil and a deregulatory state, look for the SUV, crossover, and light-duty truck market to be dominated by the big-three American automakers.
The 41st president was always known and will remain forever known as being one of the most “prepared” people to take over the Oval Office. He spoke of political unity in his 1989 inaugural address, adding that lawmakers and Americans throughout the country should rise above mere partisanship.
Donald Palmer, Trump’s nominee for the Election Assistance Committee (EAC), told the Senate committee – on which Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sits but was not in attendance – that he is committed to expelling voter fraud. However, that has not stopped Democrats from criticizing the President’s appointment.
The proposal from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would decrease deployment numbers from 5,600 to 4,000, with the extension of the remaining personnel expiring in January.
“Moving the date of the primary elections for the House of Delegates, and all of the deadlines and requirements that stem from that date, is fair and reasonable for all parties — especially the voters,” Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said in his 33-page request to the Eastern District Court as a decision on redistricting in the Commonwealth from the U.S. Supreme Court is set to come in 2019.
