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Week 10 Newsletter
Dear Friends, The General Assembly adjourned on Saturday March 12 and I am happy to be back in Newport News. Despite some challenges, we managed to protect the progress we made on raising minimum wage, expanding voting access and defending the Virginia Clean Economy Act. We also moved ahead on some significant issues, including improving […]
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Week 9 Newsletter
As I write, we are in the last days of the legislative session and I am involved with negotiations with the Senate on the final versions of bills on school construction, STEM education and Human Trafficking Prevention, before final passage. This past week we held our final Career and Technical Education Caucus of the 2022 […]
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Week 8 Newsletter
We are now in the final weeks of our General Assembly session in Virginia’s Capitol. We have met with a number of successes, but also a few setbacks, during our legislative journey here in Richmond. I was disappointed that an important Constitutional Amendment, SJ1, which would establish a fundamental right to vote in the Virginia […]