Because Virginia’s annual legislative sessions are short, alternating between 45 and 60 days, we rely on a number of committees and commissions that meet in the interim to tackle the complex issues facing the Commonwealth.  With the legislative session rapidly approaching, my work on these commissions is wrapping up, and we are making our
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Hardball on MSNBC, Thursday, December 18, 2008: is waterboarding torture?

As the year draws to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on some of what we’ve accomplished by working together in Lee District during 2006.  County Budget:  Along with other localities in the country, we are hit hard by the national and state economic crisis.  Every County agency has been directed to roll
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cross-posted from DemRulz.org The Virginia Democratic Party (DPVA) Central Commitee met in Charlotesville on December 6th for its quarterly meeting and marked our 2008 Victories – carrying Virginia for the first time in 44 years and thus helping to elect President Obama, electing Mark Warner and having two Democratic Senators for the first time since 1970,
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MyBarackObama.com (MyBO) has always been about more than an election. It’s about transforming our country — and we’ve only just begun. With the enormous challenges we’re facing at home and abroad. There’s so much more we can do to help Barack bring change to America. How we do that is up to you. At the house
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  With the enormous challenges we’re facing at home and abroad. There’s so much more we can do to help
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Every four years, just after the Presidential election, the ‘‘United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions,’’ commonly known as the Plum Book, is published, alternately, by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This publication contains data (as of September 1, 2008) on over
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