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Norquist blasts transportation deal as a massive tax hike
It comes as no surprise that anti-tax activist Grover Norquist doesn't like the $880 million transportation funding deal reached between House of Delegates and Senate negotiators. Since early January representatives of Norquist's Americans for Tax...Tags: Taxation, Republican Party, Bob McDonnell, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Frank W Wagner
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Southside Virginia lawmakers meet with Governor McDonnell on uranium mining
Six Southside Virginia legislators have met with Gov. Bob McDonnell to discuss their concerns about uranium mining in their back yards. Pittsylvania County Republican Delegate Donald Merricks said the governor told them Friday legislative matters such...
Tags: Bob McDonnell, Metal and Mineral, Government, Regional Authority, Politics
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Lt. Gov. Bolling asks for major compromise on transportation
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling sent a letter Thursday to the members of the House of Delegates and Senate conference committee tasked with working out a deal on a transportation funding package, in which he asks for both sides to make major concessions. "Now is...Tags: Government, Frank W Wagner, Regional Authority, Walter A Stosch, Hampton Roads
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Va. Senate GOP remap tactic met with dismay
A day after Virginia Senate Republicans staged a surprise reapportionment of all 40 Senate districts, it was met by ominous warnings from Democrats and nervous dismay by the state's Republican governor and House Republicans. On a party-line power play...
Tags: Republican Party, Bob McDonnell, Government, Politics, Parties and Movements
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Norquist opposes Gov. McDonnell transportation funding plan
Head of Americans for Tax reform Grover Norquist criticized Gov. Bob McDonnell's transportation plan which swaps out the state's gasoline tax for a o.8 percent increase in the state sales tax. "The plan as it stands now fails in its goal to prioritize...Tags: Republican Party, Government, Frank W Wagner, Regional Authority, Mark R. Warner
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House passes maps, lawmakers head home
House of Delegates lawmakers passed the Republican plan for redistricting late Wednesday over the objections from Democrats including Del. Robin Abbott and House Minority Leader Ward Armstrong. The GOP plan, put forward by Del. S. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk,...Tags: Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Laws, John Miller
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