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Va. House nixes Senate roads plan, despite removal of gas tax
The Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates killed one of the last hopes for raising billions of dollars in new transportation funding on Wednesday despite Democrats’ move to take a proposed increase in the gas tax off the table.
Session ends as road funding bills die
The second legislative session in two years held to generate transportation funding ended in unhappy futility in Thursday morning's wee hours.
Va. House panel kills governor’s bill as session recesses for two weeks
A panel in Virginia’s Republican-led House scuttled Gov. Tim Kaine’s proposed $1.1 billion tax plan Thursday before lawmakers called a two-week hiatus to a special session that has seen little progress.
State Senate sends gas-tax increase to hostile House, which may kill bill
The Virginia Senate on Wednesday quickly passed a gas-tax increase that would notch up the levy on a gallon of fuel by a cent a year for six years, sending the proposal to the Republican-controlled House widely expected to kill it. All 21 Democrats in the chamber’s slim majority voted for the tax measure, while 16 Republicans opposed it. |
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