The House of Delegates and Senate are set to adopt separate plans Wednesday for spending about $3.5 billion in federal aid, but in the end their budgets may look the same.
The statewide GOP ticket mates are listed as featured guests Saturday at an “election integrity” rally at Liberty University, but two of the candidates say they aren’t attending.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The senators who spent months stitching together a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure package are now trying to sell it to the American people before a key vote expected this week that would push a long recognized national priority much closer to the finish line, after years of talk.
Real youth engagement. That is what young people want. I’m not saying that I expect the age to run for office to be lowered. I’m not saying that we cannot have older politicians. I am saying that we need to do a better job at inclusivity, because democracy is for everyone.
Will lawmakers heed the testimony of these courageous officers — career law enforcement personnel, not politicians — and ensure an attack like this never happens again? If not, the door will be opened to another attack, one from which we might never recover.
Senate Republicans negotiating a $1 trillion infrastructure bill with Democrats said Wednesday they have reached agreement on major outstanding issues.
WASHINGTON (AP) — “This is how I'm going to die, defending this entrance," Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell recalled thinking, testifying Tuesday at the emotional opening hearing of the congressional panel investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unfazed by Republican threats of a boycott, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will take on its “deadly serious” work whether Republicans participate or not.
People have been harping on the need for rural broadband for so long, will we know what to do when we finally have it? In any case, it’s fashionable to blame government for all it doesn’t do. Here’s something where government may actually fix a problem the free market couldn’t.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two Republicans tapped by House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a decision the Republican denounced as “an egregious abuse of power.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans rejected an effort to begin debate on the big infrastructure deal that a bipartisan group of senators brokered with President Joe Biden, but pressure was mounting as supporters insisted they just needed more time before another vote possibly next week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans rejected an effort Wednesday to begin debate on the big infrastructure deal that a bipartisan group of senators brokered with President Joe Biden, but pressure was mounting as supporters insisted they just needed more time before another vote possibly next week.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rejecting two Republicans tapped to sit on a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, citing the "integrity" of the probe.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has picked five Republicans to sit on the new select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, signaling that Republicans will participate in the investigation that they have staunchly opposed.
Black ministers from across Texas led a prayer rally Thursday outside the Texas State Capitol after Democrats stalled action on new voting mea…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — On Day 3 of Texas Democrats hunkering down in Washington to block tighter voting laws, Republicans back home settled into a new routine that boils down to turning the Democrats' gambit into yet another advantage for the GOP in 2022.
Tennessee officials have fired the state's top vaccination official, who had been facing scrutiny from Republican state lawmakers over her dep…
Joe Cunningham - the former one-term Democratic congressman now running to unseat South Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster - is pushing f…
Major League Baseball pauses this week for its annual All-Star game. Well, almost annual. There was last year’s pandemic-shortened season that…
The Republican Party’s ticket for statewide offices in Virginia said Saturday that this is the year for change in Richmond — following years of Democratic Party control in the commonwealth.
Leading a state that went heavily for Donald Trump in the 2020 election and that has enacted some of the most aggressive laws on social issues…
Democrats occupy the moral high ground over voting rights legislation that Senate Republicans killed via filibuster Tuesday night. What’s a shame is that the For the People Act at the center of the war over Republicans rigging the rules is a terribly flawed piece of legislation.
Your View: SW Virginia has heard promises from wealthy Democratic, GOP businessmen candidates before
Southwest Virginia has heard promises from both Democrats and Republicans. Perhaps the coming years will bring changing voting patterns as voters become disillusioned with the empty promises from the two parties, left with a choice between two wealthy businessmen.
Faced with a partisan divide over how to encourage people to return to work, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, is proposing a “transition payment” of $180 a week for people who accept a new job.
New York voters are set to pick their Democratic candidate for mayor Tuesday, effectively deciding who will control the nations largest city f…