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News from Senator Barker: Legislative Update December 2008

 

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 recommendations to the General Assembly. I hope you will take a look at some of the work we have done.

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Congressman Jim Moran on Hardball: Torture Report

Hardball on MSNBC, Thursday, December 18, 2008: is waterboarding torture?

2008 Year End Message from Supervisor McKay

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 back its budget by more than 15 percent; we have a hiring freeze and staff furloughs.  I’ve convened a budget advisory group to sift through the county Lines of Business and programs, looking for the must-saves, duplications, and live-withouts.  The goal is to save as much of the county services and quality of life as possible within our fiscal constraints.

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DPVA Central Commitee Celebrates, Looks Ahead

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, and electing Glenn Nye, Tom Periello, and Gerry Connolly and having a majority (6-5) in Virginia’s House of Representatives delegation for the first time since 1990. 

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Change is Coming – House Parties

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 meetings, you’ll reflect on our campaign, discuss the future of this movement, and identify some ways to get involved in your community.

See the house parties in Lee this weekend, click here.

Sign up to attend a house meeting this weekend: http://my.barackobama.com/changeiscoming.

Change is Coming

 

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.

http://my.barackobama.com/changeiscoming

Fired up Ready to Go-Obama’s Song

2008 Plum Book

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 7,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment (e.g., positions such as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors, and aides who report to these officials). The duties of many such positions may involve advocacy of Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency head or other key officials.