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Nov 9, 2023 · WASHINGTON (AP) — The election results this week in Virginia suggest that Republicans must essentially run the table in competitive areas across the state in order to find overall success at the ballot box. Democrats won full control of the General Assembly despite losing in key swing districts.
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Nov 9, 2023 · Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday's legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power.
Nov 8, 2023 · RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday’s legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of ...
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Making it easier to votewas a top priority when Democrats took control, and the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the pace of change to Virginia’s once-strict election laws. Democrats passed bills to open absentee voting to anyone who wants to cast a ballot early or vote by mail, not just those who have an acceptable excuse. That change came just as th...
Before Democrats regained power, the state had passed no significant laws aimed at addressing climate change. In short order, policies began bubbling up just as surely as tidal floods in a Hampton Roads storm sewer. In 2020, they passed the landmark Virginia Clean Economy Act, which sketches out a roadmap for the state’s two largest electric utilit...
When Democrats took control of the General Assembly, they pledged to increase funding for education —touting it as a priorityfor the 2020 session. A year later, investments have increased while falling short of thenearly $1 billionthat the state’s Board of Education says is necessary to fully fund public schools. This year’s compromise budget inclu...
Virginia expanded Medicaidbefore Democrats took control of the General Assembly, allowing hundreds of thousands of previously ineligible Virginians to gain coverage. But in the two years since, they’ve made significant changes to the state health care exchange in an effort to stabilize enrollment and lower the prices on premiums. Last year, lawmake...
Democrats voted toraise the state’s minimum wageto $12 an hour over the next three years — the first increase the state has seen since 2009, when the federal minimum went up to $7.25 an hour. The agreement represents a substantial increase — with the first bump to $9.50 an hour scheduled to go into effect in May — but it falls short of the $15-an-h...
Before winning their majorities, Democrats made it clear they wanted to pass tighter laws to prevent potentially dangerous people from having access to guns and allow firearm bans in more public places. They mostly delivered on that front, but they’ve stopped short of outlawing specific types of weaponry. They made background checks mandatory for a...
From abolishing the death penaltyto legalizing marijuana, Democrats enacted sweeping reforms touching all aspects of the state’s criminal justice system. Many of the policies were the product of a special legislative session last year that followed nationwide protests against police brutality, including laws that went into effect this monthbanning ...
The party has taken both concrete and symbolic steps on matters of freedom and equality. After his yearbook blackface scandal, Northam led an effort to repealnearly 100outdated, discriminatory laws still on the books. This year Democrats extended that symbolic step to LGBTQ rights, voting torepeal a ban on gay marriagestill in the state Constitutio...
Democrats have remained deeply divided on electric utility reform over the past two years, with many House members joining with a cadre of Republicans in that chamber to push for a set of changes to state code that would restore much of the authority of Virginia’s public utility regulators, the State Corporation Commission, to regulate rates and ea...
In his 2007 autobiography, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a prolific Democratic fundraiser, said his father taught him “money in politics was neither evil nor good.” “Money in politics was like gas in the tank, it was what you needed to get where you were going,” wrote McAuliffe, now seeking a second term as governor. If the last two sessions are any...
Nov 8, 2023 · Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday’s legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power. The outcome is a sharp loss for Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his fellow Republicans, who exerted a great deal of energy, money and political capital on their effort to secure a GOP trifecta.
Nov 8, 2023 · Virginia Democrats have maintained their control of the state Senate and flipped the state House, consolidating their grip on the state legislature in what will remain divided government. Their ...
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Nov 9, 2023 · Democrats won full control of the General Assembly despite losing in key swing districts. Republicans had been able to do that in 2021, along with Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory over ...
