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- March 4, 2019
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Virginia Republicans Set Their Sights On Improving Healthcare In 2019 Legislative Session

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From increasing coverage for those with autism, expanding telemedicine, and raising the minimum age to buy tobacco and alternative nicotine products, over a dozen bills from the GOP will assist in promoting better healthcare and healthcare coverage for Virginians.

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- March 1, 2019
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Sex Trafficking Legislation Large Part Of GOP’s Pledge Keeping Communities Safe

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Measures to mitigate human and sex trafficking were a large part of the Republican Party’s agenda in the 2019 legislative session in Richmond, which included other bills to enhance the criminal justice system.

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- February 28, 2019
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Virginia Republicans Continue Progress On Statewide Adoption Reform

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GOP lawmakers passed legislation during this year’s 46-day session to help reform adoption procedures in Virginia.

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- February 28, 2019
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Pam Northam’s Cotton-Picking Catastrophe

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.

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- February 27, 2019
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Ed Gillespie Responds To Ralph Northam’s Racial Scandal

“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.

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- February 27, 2019
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Virginia Senators Tim Kaine, Mark Warner Join Democrats Turning Blind Eye To Infanticide

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. 

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- February 26, 2019
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Republicans In Richmond Tout Leadership And Results Amid Democratic Chaos And Embarrassment

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- February 25, 2019
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Republican Lawmakers Worked To Make Life Easier For Veterans And Their Families During 2019 Session

GOP-led legislation will make it easier for veterans to obtain commercial driver’s licenses, their spouses to be licensed as a physician assistants, and exempts a spouse of a disabled veteran from paying property tax on their primary residence.

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- February 25, 2019
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Virginia Hunters Can Now Purchase Trip Hunting Licenses, But Still Not Allowed To Bag Elk

Although hunters can’t bag and tag the growing elk population in Southwest Virginia just yet, residents can now purchase short-term trip hunting licenses that were only provided to non-residents.

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- February 25, 2019
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Handful Of Priority Recommendations From Select Committee On School Safety To Become Law

Following last February’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the General Assembly passed some of the security enhancing priority recommendations provided by Virginia’s first select committee commissioned in 155 years.

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