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The development, which drew criticism from Democrats who control the General Assembly, did not come as a surprise. While Youngkin had not explicitly threatened to veto either set of bills, he told ...
But in 2024, the first General Assembly session during Youngkin’s term in which Democrats had control of both the House and Senate, Youngkin racked up a historic 201 vetoes, vetoing more bills ...
In all, Youngkin signed 100 bills and vetoed seven on Thursday. He is on track to have vetoed the highest number of bills of any governor in Virginia's history.
Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed more bills than any other president in history. This is partly because of the many new ideas for solutions to the problems caused by the Great Depression and World War II, and partly because he served three full terms (Roosevelt died roughly three months into his fourth term). Grover Cleveland vetoed more bills per ...
Family medical leave bill vetoed SB373 , if signed, would have required the Virginia Employment Commission to establish a 12-week paid family and medical leave benefits program, to begin in ...
This was the first veto of Youngkin's governorship. [128] Later in 2022, Youngkin signed a bill downscaling the Marcus alert system, which had been established by Northam about two years earlier in response to both the George Floyd protests of 2020 and the 2018 killing in Richmond of Marcus-David Peters.
Glenn Allen Youngkin (/ ˈ j ʌ ŋ k ɪ n / YUNG-kin; [1] born December 9, 1966) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 74th governor of Virginia since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at the private-equity firm The Carlyle Group, where he became co-CEO in 2018.
Youngkin vetoed bills last year requiring a minimum five-day waiting period for firearm purchases; adding more restrictions to who can accept a gun from a dangerous family member; creating ...