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The Virginia General Assembly session State lawmakers have returned to deal with gubernatorial amendments to the budget and the election of certain judges.
May 14, 2012
Del. Lacey E. Putney (I-Bedford), chairman of Virginia's House Appropriations Committee, listens to proposed amendments to the state budget during a committee meeting at the General Assembly Building in Richmond. The General Assembly is back in town to deal with gubernatorial amendments to the budget and the election of certain judges.
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May 14, 2012
House Clerk G. Paul Nardo, right, looks at a document on his desk as delegates huddle around the speaker's podium during the floor session of Virginia's House of Delegates in Richmond.
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May 14, 2012
Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-James City) left, talks with Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax) during the floor session of the Senate at the State Capitol in Richmond.
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May 14, 2012
Del. S. Chris Jones (R-Suffolk), right, speaks with Susan Hogge, a member of the House Appropriations Committee staff, during the floor session of the House of Delegates.
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Feb. 19, 2012
Del. Robert Tata (R-Virginia Beach), center, and Del. Lacey E. Putney (I-Bedford), right, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, participate in the committee's meeting to unveil its budget proposals at the Capitol in Richmond.
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Feb. 16, 2012
Joe Bartling of Oakton holds the hand of one of his six blind adopted children after addressing a meeting of the Senate Education and Health Committee at the General Assembly Building in Richmond. Bartling spoke in support of House Bill 62, which would strip state funding for low-income women seeking an abortion because of fetal abnormalities.
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Feb. 13, 2012
Del. Barry Knight (R-Virginia Beach), left, talks with Del. Lee Ware (R-Powhatan) during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond.
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Feb. 10, 2012
Lawmakers raise their hands to vote during the long floor session of the House of Delegates in Richmond on Friday.
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Feb. 10, 2012
Del. David B. Albo (R-Fairfax), chairman of the House Courts of Justice Committee, talks with panel members before the group began consideration of a number of bills Friday.
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Feb. 10, 2012
Del. Robert G. Marshall III (R-Prince William) speaks during a meeting of the House Courts of Justice Committee.
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Feb. 10, 2012
Del. Anne Crockett-Stark (R-Wythe) covers her face as she receives a standing ovation following a humorous floor speech.
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Feb. 10, 2012
Sen. Dave W. Marsden (D-Fairfax) receives applause from both sides in the room as SB202, his "fox-penning" bill, was carried over for a year of study during a meeting of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
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Jan. 26, 2012
Del. Robert Tata (R-Virginia Beach), left, looks over legislation along with Del. Harry Purkey (R-Virginia Beach).
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Jan. 12, 2012
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), left, with Jenny M. Holbert, chairman of the Joint Leadership Council of Veterans Service Organizations, and Paul Galanti, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Veterans Services. McDonnell gave an address to the Joint Leadership Council of Veterans Service Organizations in the Virginia State Capitol building.
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Jan. 12, 2012
Del. Robert Marshall (R-Prince William) says he will run for U.S. Senate this year against former senator George Allen (R).
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Jan. 12, 2012
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (second from left) walks with staff and security through the plaza level of the State Capitol.
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Jan. 11, 2012
McDonnell delivers the annual State of the Commonwealth Address in the Virginia State Capitol House Chamber. Seated behind him is Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling.
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Jan. 11, 2012
All in the House chamber stand as special guests seated in the balcony are acknowledged.
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Jan. 11, 2012
State Sen. Bryce E. Reeves (R-Fredericksburg) with his son, Jack, 8, and his daughter, Nikki, 13, look inside the Senate Chamber after members were sworn in. Reeves won his seat in November's tightest Virginia Senate race.
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Jan. 11, 2012
A view of the Virginia House chamber after members were sworn.
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Jan. 11, 2012
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell participates in the 47th Annual Commonwealth Prayer Breakfast at the Richmond Convention Center.
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Jan. 11, 2012
Family members of State Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Fairfax) traveled from Colorado to view the swearing-in of the 2012 Virginia Senate in Richmond.
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Jan. 11, 2012
Members of the Virginia Senate are sworn in.
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Jan. 11, 2012
Junior State Sen. Richard H. Black (R-Loudoun), right, is introduced on the Senate floor.
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Jan. 11, 2012
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, right, enters the Senate Chambers he greets state Sens. A. Donald McEachin (D-Richmond), left, and Ralph S. Northam (D-Norfolk), center.
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Jan. 11, 2012
State Sen. Yvonne B. Miller (D-Norfolk), center, speaks with members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus at a news conference just before the swearing-in of the 2012 Virginia House and Senate.
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Jan. 10, 2012
J. Tucker Martin, Gov. McDonnell's communications director, places a sign for special guests seating in the balcony of the House Chambers of the Virginia Capitol in Richmond.
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Jan. 10, 2012
On the steps of the Virginia Capitol in Richmond, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and the Republican leadership announce the Joint Agenda for the 2012 Legislative Session.
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Jan. 10, 2012
Spectators watch as Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and the Republican leadership announce the Joint Agenda for the 2012 Legislative Session.
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Jan. 10, 2012
McDonnell, left, talks with Sen. John Watkins (R-Chesterfield).
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Jan. 10, 2012
McDonnell walks into the House Chambers of the Virginia Capitol in Richmond.
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Jan. 10, 2012
Early morning pedestrians walk from the General Assembly Building, left, to the State Capitol in Richmond.
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From left, Sen. Frank M. Ruff, Jr., R-Mecklenburg, and Sen. Frank W. Wagner, R-Virginia Beach, share a laugh during the Senate money committee's meeting to unveil its budget proposals at the General Assembly in Richmond, Va., on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Eva Russo)
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