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(The Center Square) – Three amendments are one step closer in a long journey to being enshrined in the Virginia Constitution after passing the Senate on Tuesday. The Senate paved the way to ...
The 2023 Virginia Senate election was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, concurrently with elections for the Virginia House of Delegates, to elect senators to all 40 seats in the Senate of Virginia for the 163rd and 164th Virginia Assembly.
The lieutenant governor presides daily over the Virginia Senate. In the lieutenant governor's absence, the president pro tempore presides, usually a powerful member of the majority party. The Senate is equal with the House of Delegates, the lower chamber of the legislature, except that taxation bills must originate in the House, similar to the ...
While other states are threatening voting rights, Virginia took a major step today to protect the right to vote." [19] Republicans in both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate unanimously opposed the bill, arguing that it would inundate local election administrators with lawsuits and complicate routine changes to voting. [3]
Schumer, a Democrat and co-sponsor of the legislation, could invoke a Senate rule that would skip a committee hearing and send the bill directly to a floor vote by the full Senate. "If Schumer ...
Virginia incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine (D) debated Republican challenger Hung Cao Wednesday in a live event hosted by WAVY from Norfolk State University’s campus. Kaine was elected to the Senate in ...
Before the vote, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised the work of the Senate in passing this bill. "Tonight the Senate delivers good news for America: there will be no government shutdown right ...
Stella Pekarsky is an American politician of the Democratic Party from Virginia. She serves in the Senate of Virginia, representing the 36th district, made up of western Fairfax County. [1] She was first elected to the Virginia Senate in the 2023 Virginia Senate election. She previously served as a member of the Fairfax County Public Schools ...