Fourteen gun control bills were defeated by Virginia House Republicans, leaving four remaining. While gun rights supporters said Governor Northam’s agenda appeared dead for the year, they warned these bills represented a wishlist by gun control proponents which could pass if Republicans lose the House and Senate this November.
With the legislation dead in the Senate, there is a minimum wage increase bill still in the Commerce and Labor Committee in the House of Delegates.
The legislation based on the 24 priority recommendations from the Select Committee on School Safety are set to be voted on this week in the Virginia House of Delegates
“Republicans have won the ‘framing war’ over voter ID, largely neutralizing the Democratic voter suppression frame, even among average Democrats,” a 2017 study shows.
Del. Elizabeth Guzman and Ibraheem Samirah attended an event which national Democratic leaders denounced as anti-Semitic and tainted by racism and bigotry. Republican leaders condemned their attendance and called on them to denounce the views of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Employment projections through 2024 show that Virginia’s economy is set to grow 9.4 percent, exceeding the national growth rate of 6.5 percent.
The bipartisan, bicameral bill from Virginia lawmakers would increase the minimum age for those prohibited from “purchasing or possessing tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, and alternative nicotine products.”
Democratic leaders backed legislation repealing restrictions on third trimester late term abortions, repealing clinic health and safety standards, and eliminating informed consent requirements, among other provisions. They noted the measures were unlikely to pass in 2019, but vowed to enact them if Democrats take the Virginia House and Senate in November’s elections.
Addressing the committee, Speaker of the House Kirk Cox said the work done by the Select Committee on School Safety was “groundbreaking.”
After generating serious buzz by presenting her bill while packing heat, legislation to allow emergency services personnel in Virginia to carry a concealed weapon made it out of the Senate Courts of Justice Committee Wednesday night.
