Posted on September 19, 2012. Tags: Appropriations Bills, Budget Numbers, Campaign Trail, Congressional Record, Filibuster, Filibusters, Flashback, Good Faith, Harry Reid, Incumbents, Legislative Agenda, Majority Leader, Nevada Democrat, New York Times, Nyt, Record Books, Senate Democrats, Senator Harry Reid, Th Congress, Washington Post
The New York Times writes today, “The 112th Congress is set to enter the Congressional record books as the least productive body in a generation, passing a mere 173 public laws as of last month. . . . Appropriations bills, once the central function of the legislative branch, have been ditched in favor of short-term spending […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on December 1, 2011. Tags: Blog, County Supervisors, Eminent Domain, Endorsement, Eniment Domain, Global Warming, Hanover County, Legislative Agenda, Opposition, Supervisor, Va General Assembly, Voter Approval
You need go no further than this blog to get the 2012 Hanover Board of County Supervisors Legislative Agenda! Here it is! Questions to ask your new supervisor: What was meant by not reducing the eminent domain power? Is that an opposition to the Eminent Domain Amendment pending in the VA General Assembly? What environmental […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on June 7, 2011. Tags: Budget Deficit, Democratic Budget, Democratic Senators, Dianne Feinstein, Frustration, Happy Camper, Joe Liberman, Legislative Agenda, Mark Pryor, Mark Udall, Nbsp, Parameters, Partisanship, Policy Debates, Proposal, Sen Dianne Feinstein, Senate Democrats, Slow Pace, Statutory Framework, Uncertainty
‘Unnerved’ ‘A growing number of Senate Democrats are anxious about the lack of a Democratic budget and the unusually slow legislative agenda’ ‘Uncertainty In The Budget Process Has Caused The Most Angst Among Democratic Senators’ POLITICO: “A growing number of Senate Democrats are anxious about the lack of a Democratic budget and the […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on January 23, 2011. Tags: Appropriation Bill, Appropriation Bills, Ballot Measures, Causus, Chairman Of The House Appropriations Committee, Chairman Of The Senate Finance Committee, Constitutional Amendment, Employee Representation, First Resolution, Fundamental Right, House Appropriations Committee, Labor Organization, Legislative Agenda, Mcdougle, Norment, Right To Work State, Secret Ballot, Senate Finance Committee, Senate Republican Caucus, Virginia Senate, Walter Stosch
At a press conference on January 18th the Senate Republican Caucus announced their Legislative Agenda. It includes measures to increase transparency and strengthen accountability in Virginia’s budget process, to oppose tax increases, to protect Virginia’s status as a Right-to-Work state and prevent the implementation of Card Check. Some of the legislation that the Senate is […]
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Posted on September 21, 2010. Tags: Bipartisan Bill, Defense Authorization Bill, Democratic Colleagues, Democratic Senators, Immigration Reform, Legislative Agenda, Liberal Agenda, Liberal Base, Mark Pryor, Military Policies, Mitch Mcconnell, Political Exercise, Procedural Motion, Scaled Down Version, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Majority Leader Harry, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican Leader, Special Interest Groups, Transparent Attempt
This afternoon, the Senate will be voting on a procedural motion to take up the Fiscal Year 2011 Defense Authorization bill. As The Hill notes, “The defense authorization bill, which includes many critical military policies including authority for pay raises, is considered a must-pass bill. It’s been passed by Congress for 48 consecutive years.” But […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
Read the full story
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