Posted on 15 April 2011. Tags: Advisory Commission, Bill Bolling, Bipartisan Support, Bob McDonnell, Constitutional Deficiencies, Core Principles, Egregious Example, General Assembly, Gerrymandering, Governor Bill, Governor Bob, Governor Of Virginia, Lieutenant Governor, Lt Governor, Self Interest, Senate Democrats, Senate Plan, Senate Republicans, Solid Foundation, Veto
And the Lt. Governor of Virginia registers his thoughts on the Senate redistricting plan: RICHMOND – Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling today issued the following statement on Governor Bob McDonnell’s veto of the redistricting bill passed by the General Assembly: “I commend Governor McDonnell for vetoing the redistricting bill recently passed by the General Assembly. I [...]
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Posted on 15 April 2011. Tags: Bipartisan Support, Bob McDonnell, Foolishness, General Assembly, Governor Bob, Hanover County, House Of Delegates, Lengthy Litigation, Republican Governor, Republican Vote, Ridiculous Nature, Senate District, Senate Districts, Senate Plan, State Senate, Veto, Vetoes, Virginia Governor, Virginia House Of Delegates, Vote Republican, Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The Virginia House of Delegates managed to come up with a bipartisan redistricting plan that saw a number of Democrats vote for the bill in the Republican controlled House. The Democrat controlled State Senate, on the other hand, managed to devise a plan so one sided and protectionist that it did not have a single [...]
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Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: Cnn, Cnn Health, Congresswoman Slaughter, Decent Health, Ed Column, Fawn Hall, Health Care Bill, Health Coverage, Health Reform, Louise Slaughter, Nancy Pelosi, Ollie North, Plan Insurance, Private Insurance Company, Senate Bill, Senate Health, Senate Plan, Stock Prices, T Health, Websters
My, my how quickly things change for Democrats. In December, Louise Slaughter, the same one that is helping Nancy Pelosi shred the Constitution faster than Fawn Hall shredded Ollie North’s documents, penned an op-ed column for CNN.
Slaughter wrote:
The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago.
Even though the House version is far from perfect, it at least represents a step toward our goal of giving 36 million Americans decent health coverage.
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Posted on 11 February 2010. Tags: Back Door, Bipartisan Senate, Business Tax, Insolvency, Jobs Security, Middle Class, Raid, Security Trust Fund, Senate Bill, Senate Plan, Small Businesses, Social Security, Social Security Fund, Social Security Tax, Social Security Trust, Social Security Trust Fund, Tax Break, Tax Rate, Wages, Yahoo
In a bill that is being called a “Jobs Bill”, the Senate introduced a plot to raid Social Security to bribe small businesses into hiring unemployed people who have been out of work at least 60 days.
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