Richmond, VA is on edge this afternoon as news quickly begins to spread of the official passing of the controversial Ultrasound bill in the Virginia State Senate. Over the past few weeks, the bill itself has morphed from a mandate that involves a transvaginal ultrasound be performed to determine the outcome of the pregnancy. The […]
Virginia General Assembly: House members voted last week by a 66-32 margin that life begins at conception. On Thursday, members in the Senate voted on the bill by a 24-12 margin. The bill has been sent back to committee for more study. The “personhood” bill has been tabled until the 2013 General Assembly session. The […]
Virginia Legislators wanted to strengthen the state’s ban on “texting while driving” instead, a House panel killed the last of several measures aimed at bolstering the ban. The House Militia, Police and Public Safety Subcommittee Thursday killed a Senate measure allowing police officers to pull over drivers for the sole offense of texting while behind […]
UPDATE: The Virginia Senate passed the Thomas Haynesworth bill and now it is up to the House of Delegates to vote on the measure. RICHMOND – Senator Henry L. Marsh, III (D) is pleased that the Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved the claims bill that he submitted to compensate Thomas E. Haynesworth for 27 […]
There will be a “Rally in the Alley” for minority business owners and contractors today at 10 a.m. in front of General Assembly at 9th and Broad Streets. The NAACP will host the rally and press conference. SB 651 Women-owned and minority-owned businesses; enhancement measures. The chief patron of the minority-owned business bill is Senator Donald […]
U.S. Senator Mark R.Warner stopped by the Radio One studios to chat with me about the “My Digital Life” and a day in the life of Congress. We need bipartisanship in government to represent the American people. Senator Warner and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell together launched the “My Digital Life” a program aimed at teaching […]
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich won’t be spending the holidays with his family for a long, long time. Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Wednesday on 18 counts of felony corruption. Blagojevich was first arrested in December 2008 for attempting to sell the Senate seat President Barack Obama left vacant when he […]
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! Election day is Tuesday, November 8, 2011 and the voter polls are open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The question is who are the candidates running for office in Virginia’s General Assembly? All 100 district member seats are up for re-election in the House of Delegates and 40 district member seats […]
Senate Republicans have voted to kill the $447 billion White House jobs bill despite weeks of barnstorming by President Barack Obama across the country. Forty-six Republicans joined with two Democrats to delay the plan. The roll call was kept open last Tuesday night to allow Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to vote. But it would have […]
WASHINGTON — Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.
CHICAGO (AP) – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich called Oprah Winfrey a kingmaker who could influence voters as he mulled naming the talk show host to President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat, according to anFBI tape played Monday at his corruption trial.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a fiery oratorversed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday. He was 92.
