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Gun show loophole bill back before Va. Senate panel

Legislation to close the so-called "gun show loophole" is back before a Virginia Senate committee.

Tags: Bob Marshall, Virginia General Assembly, Bob McDonnell, guns

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Jeb Bush promotes McDonnell school grading plan

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Friday enlisted a former Florida governor in his push for legislation to grade Virginia public schools on an A-to-F scale.

Tags: school grading plan, Bob McDonnell

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Hybrid car owners protest McDonnell's proposed fee

Hybrid and electric car owners circled the capital Thursday to protest a $100 yearly fee that would be placed on their vehicles if Gov. Bob McDonnell's transportation plan passes.

Tags: gas tax, electric car, alternative fuel, Bob McDonnell, transportation funding, Richmond, Va., hank silverberg

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Va. Senate panel advances education bills

Two major components of Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell's education reform agenda won a Senate committee's endorsement Thursday on the narrowest of party-line votes.

Tags: Bob McDonnell, education reform

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GOP voting bills aimed at party hegemony in Va

Virginia's not the only electoral battleground with a Republican-ruled legislature where President Barack Obama mopped up last year en route to re-election. But it is the first to act on an ambitious menu of Republican legislation aimed at preventing another Democratic triumph.

Tags: bob lewis, governor, Mark Warner, Bob McDonnell, Virginia politics

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Va. Gov. McDonnell touts transportation proposal

Tags: gas tax, Bob McDonnell, transportation costs

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Fairfax Co. Chamber backs McDonnell's transportation funding bill

The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce has tossed its support to Gov. Bob McDonnell's transportation funding plan, the largest organization in the Washington area so far to back the controversial proposal.

Tags: Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, Bob McDonnell

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Holshouser, McDonnell don't make NC inauguration

Gov. Bob McDonnell didn't attend the inauguration of North Carolina's new governor this weekend.

Tags: Bob McDonnell, Republican Governors Association

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Va. gov praised, panned on felons' voting rights

What's wrong with this picture: Democrats leaping to their feet to give Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell a standing ovation. The ACLU praising him. Tough-on-crime GOP legislators denouncing perhaps the most significant criminal justice initiative of the final year of his term.

Tags: felony voting, Bob McDonnell, voting rights of felons, voting rights

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McDonnell makes case for transportation tax change

Gov. Bob McDonnell used his annual address to the state Wednesday to make one big, last push for an enduring legislative legacy, urging lawmakers to enact his education and transportation reforms.

Tags: Bob McDonnell, hank silverberg, Dick Saslaw, tax, Dick Black, David Toscano

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