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Columns

  • The importance of passing a budget

    By Delegate Terry Austin
    19th District

        The General Assembly has one obligation in Richmond each year, to pass a budget.
        This year, the House budget is focused and prioritized, allotting $500 million for K-12 education, $20 million for tuition moderation, nearly $50 million for mental health, and $118 million for our hospitals for our free clinics. Without a budget, each of these areas, as well as transportation, public safety, our emergency responders, and teachers, will lose millions of dollars in the interim.

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  • It’s over... Almost

    Senator Steve Newman
    23rd District

        Finally, it is finished…  Well, almost. 
        During the last week of the 2014 General Assembly, the Senate and House acted on the final bills of this session. In all, we considered over 2,500 pieces of legislation.  We also worked hard to reconcile the Commonwealth’s budget, but due to a mandate from the Governor to include an expansion of Obama Care it could not be done in the 60-day session.

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  • Ukraine, Crimea not part of our interests

    Conservatives who don’t like President Obama are having a new field day at his expense in the matter of Russia’s moves in Crimea and the greater situation with Ukraine.
        They have chosen to react as though Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions are a direct result of what he thinks of Obama. Well, you know, everything bad in the world is Obama’s fault, right?
        Isn’t that what passes for logic these days in the “tea party?”

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  • Barack Obaloney and the Tsar

        In my first column of the new year, I offered the opinion that Vladimir Putin would not let Ukraine go without a struggle. Events of the past two weeks have proved me right and we may not yet have seen how far Tsar Vladimir I is willing to go to avoid losing what many Russians view as “theirs.”
        The protests that I spoke of in that column steadily grew angrier and Victor Yanukovych became increasingly heavy handed in his efforts, apparently at the Tsar’s urging, to end the protests.

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  • Text of Robert Hurt's monthly video address

    Communicating with the people of Virginia’s 5th District and hearing your feedback is very important to us. In order to ensure that we keep you up to date on what is going on from month to month, we record a monthly video address. You may watch the video address on our website at hurt.house.gov, and you may read the address below:

    Video Address Text

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  • National FFA Week highlights the importance of agricultural education

    By Congressman Robert Hurt

     

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  • Stopping government abuse

    Whether in the form of new regulations on businesses or mandates on families created under the new health care law, increasing executive overreach and government abuse is only growing the size and scope of the federal government. This trend is not the way to spur the economic growth and job creation our nations needs.

     

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  • Getting ready for the final budget proposal

    By Delegate Terry Austin
    19th District

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  • How will ObamaCare affect us?

        This week in Richmond, Virginia’s two-year budget became the latest front in the battle over the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as ObamaCare.  And because Governor McAuliffe and Democrat senators have been devoted to the federal healthcare law and fiercely defending it, one of my measures to gather needed information on the law’s impact on Virginians was put on hold by a Senate committee.

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  • General Assembly session nears home stretch

    Senator Steve Newman
    23rd District

        The sun shone over Mr. Jefferson’s Capitol this week as the 2014 session of the Virginia General Assembly officially entered the home stretch, as negotiations to iron-out differences between the House and Senate versions of the state’s biennial budget began.

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