Bill Howell

[UPDATE – 09/19/14: I retract the portion of this story that deals with Medicaid expansion.  Subsequent events suggest the September reconvening of the special session was undertaken to provide the Governor an act of appropriation, not to make it politically more difficult for him to…

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 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.…

General Assembly members: if you oppose Medicaid expansion in Virginia, now is finally your chance to have a real impact. There has been a lot of ink spilled lately about whether Terry McAuliffe can expand Medicaid on his own if the Virginia General Assembly doesn’t…

In a move ostensibly designed to give both sides of the budget standoff in Richmond something they want, Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Augusta) earlier today proposed a deal that would give House Republicans a budget free and clear of Medicaid expansion, in exchange for giving the…

The Washington Post’s Laura Vozzella finally catches on to the ‘Third Way’ that Virginia’s Medicaid expansion standoff may end. It’s not like we haven’t been telling her for some time.

After yesterday’s letter eviscerating Howie Lind’s radio ads attacking Barbara Comstock on Medicaid expansion, Howie Lind punches back twice as hard.