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The race to win a job that pays $36,000 a year and requires skills hardly more demanding than the ability to stand for long periods of time is attracting an inordinate amount of attention this year in Virginia.
Virginia legislators are moving to ban smoking in cars with children younger than 15.
A Republican-run Senate committee swiftly killed legislation Monday that would have made Virginia's mandatory pre-abortion ultrasound exams optional after the committee chairman blocked discussion of the bill.
A Republican-dominated Senate committee narrowly killed a bill Thursday that would have barred state-funded abortions for poor women carrying mortally deformed fetuses.
The Virginia Senate Finance committee Tuesday morning killed a bill that would repeal state funding for low-income women to have abortions if a doctor determines their child will be born with a physical deformity or mental deficiency.
The Virginia Senate on Wednesday approved a bill requiring women to undergo ultrasound imaging before they have an abortion — the most aggressive measure on reproductive rights that has cleared the upper chamber thus far in the 2012 session.
The Virginia Senate on Wednesday approved a bill requiring women to undergo ultrasound imaging before they have an abortion - the most aggressive measure on reproductive rights that has cleared the upper chamber thus far in the 2012 session.
Mr. Chopra's opponent, state Sen. Ralph S. Northam of Norfolk, said power-sharing — where, for example, the two parties would divide committees equally or appoint co-chairmen to key panels — would be out of the question if he wins.
Winning Va. lieutenant governor would give Democrats leg up →
"The first thing that we'll do when we have the majority back in the Senate is we will re-form the committees. We will have Democratic majorities on all of them, and the power-sharing issue — it's just not going to happen," Mr. Northam said shortly afterward at the same forum.
Winning Va. lieutenant governor would give Democrats leg up →
