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Jan 20, 2013

N.C. Sen. Hagan says she’s governing as moderate

RALEIGH, N.C. U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan won't let what predecessor Elizabeth Dole failed to overcome get to her. She's getting out of Washington.

Jan 19, 2013

Virginia retailers weigh in on plan to raise sales tax

Virginia retailers usually bristle at any suggestion to raise the state’s sales tax. They worry that such a move would temper spending among consumers who are sensitive to price increases. And it would make the competition with out-of-state retailers that don’t charge sales tax – in particular, Internet merchants – that much more difficult, they argue.

Jan 18, 2013

Inaction on online taxes hamstrings Va. roads funding

RICHMOND More than one-third of the revenue Gov. Bob McDonnell hopes to raise with his proposed transportation funding package is contingent on federal legislation that Congress hasn’t passed.

Jan 18, 2013

House committee rejects sex-selective abortion ban

RICHMOND A Republican-controlled House subcommittee this afternoon unanimously voted against banning sex-selective abortions in Virginia, citing Constitutional concerns and worries about penalizing doctors for their patients’ motives.

Jan 18, 2013

Assault on high prison phone rates fails in Va. House

RICHMOND A lawmaker was rebuffed again today in his years-long assault on the high telephone rates paid by Virginia prisoners.

Jan 18, 2013

Welfare bills progress in the Virginia Senate

RICHMOND Efforts to expand welfare eligibility, drug test some welfare recipients and limit where their benefits may be used are progressing in the Virginia Senate.

Jan 18, 2013

Va. panel snuffs out absentee voting for senior citizens

RICHMOND The only expansion of voting rights that seemed to have a chance of passage in the 2013 General Assembly was quickly and quietly snuffed out today.

Jan 18, 2013

Va. panel tables absentee voting for senior citizens

RICHMOND The only expansion of voting rights that seemed to have a chance of passage in the 2013 General Assembly was quickly and quietly snuffed out today.

Jan 18, 2013

Va. gun show loophole bill advances, but not for long

RICHMOND Those who've long pined for passage of a bill requiring gun buyers to undergo background checks before purchases from private dealers at gun shows thought a breakthrough had been made when legislation addressing that issue cleared a Senate panel Friday morning.

Jan 18, 2013

A false start for a Virginia gun-show bill

RICHMOND A Senate committee's decision Friday to advance legislation that would require all sales of firearms at gun shows to be transacted by licensed dealers who would conduct background checks was short-lived.

Jan 18, 2013

Panel’s approval of gun show bill short-lived

RICHMOND A Virginia Senate committee that advanced legislation closing the so-called "gun show loophole" changed course about an hour later. The Courts of Justice Committee voted 8-6 Friday to endorse a new version of the perennially unsuccessful measure. The panel later reconvened on the Senate floor, reconsidered and put off action until Monday.

Jan 18, 2013

For the moment, gun show loophole bill survives

RICHMOND A series of Democrat-sponsored bills to place more controls on gun rights were shot down in a Senate committee Friday morning after a House subcommittee spiked some similar measures the night before. But in a surprise move, a version of the so-called gun show loophole bill cleared the Courts of Justice Committee after being modified at the last-minute.

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