General Assembly

The Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation (VTPPF) released their 2014 legislative scorecard this week. You will notice that the scorecard done by the VTPPF is different than scorecards you may have seen in the past. Most scorecards published by organizations generally favor one political party or another…

The Times-Dispatch is reporting an interesting bit of back story to the budget drama that appears (for now) to have been resolved last night. According to the report, Speaker Howell had the staff of the Clerk of the House’s office working overtime to get a…

GOVERNOR’S VETO OF STANLEY AMENDMENT HELD INVALID, SIGNED BUDGET NOW LAW. In a sometimes tense evening peppered with drama surrounding Senate reorganization, the now-Republican controlled Virginia General Assembly has undertaken the final measures needed to pass a budget into law. The session began at 5:00…

Governor Terry McAuliffe won’t admit it, but his words and actions demonstrate acute awareness of the political and legal obstacles to his stated goal of expanding Medicaid administratively, without approval from the General Assembly. He has lost, but continues to play to the Democrat base.…

We will have more on this later after we’ve had a chance to examine the details, but here’s what we know. Governor McAuliffe this morning announced that he was going to attempt a line-item veto of the #BLACKorBUST language prohibiting any expenditures on Medicaid expansion…

A recent headline caught my eye: “Republicans come out of the 2014 Primary Season with Little to Guide them Forward.” Some pundits are searching to explain why things aren’t the way they’ve always been. This past week in Virginia, as the Times Dispatch reported, we…

After last week’s grassroots victory in slamming the door shut on the most obvious avenue for Virginia’s Governor to expand Medicaid on his own, all sides are taking stock of their next moves. For the best recap of last week’s events published so far, check…