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| A View from the Cheap Seats is a blog written Northern Virginia Daily staff writer Garren Shipley. Shipley has been covering Virginia politics since 2005. A native of East Tennessee, he got his first political bylines covering the statehouse in Nashville. He is a 2000 graduate of East Tennessee State University with a degree in mass communications and political science. He lives in Strasburg with his wife and two children.
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A local congressman's effort to right the country's fiscal ship has picked up a significant new block of support .
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Virginia's congressional delegation is divided over the question of bringing Guantanamo Bay terror suspects to the U.S. for trial.
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Health care providers could take a major hit under health care reform legislation that passed the House of Representatives earlier this month, according to a new report.
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The Obama administration's decision to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees in federal court is drawing bipartisan criticism from some in Virginia's congressional delegation.
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A local congressman's efforts to right the country's long-term financial ship has picked up some big-name support in the U.S. Senate.
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FRONT ROYAL -- The General Assembly again will face hefty budget challenges when it convenes for the 2010 legislative session, according to one area lawmaker.
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Saturday's health care reform vote in the House of Representatives may well have been the first shots in the 2010 election.
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The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on controversial health-care legislation today, but it may not happen unless Democrats can round up the votes, according to a local congressman.
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The Democrat, trailing significantly in a number of polls, went on the air today with two ads that are easily the hardest-hitting of any statewide ads in this election cycle.
It's a position no team likes to find themselves in: it's the fourth quarter, and you're down by a touchdown and a field goal. There's not a lot of time left on the clock, but you've got all three time-outs.
Team Deeds appears to be doubling down on The Thesis. Not only has the campaign launched a Twitter account dedicated to the document, they've also developed a new Web site.
For your viewing pleasure, the videos the campaigns would like you to see this week.
What we found is that McDonnell's record, based on the bill list provided by the Deeds campaign, is undoubtedly pro-life. But it's not the anti-abortion crusade that Deeds' campaign makes it out to be.
Democratic attorney general nominee Steve Shannon is on the air with his first ad.
Polls have tightened up since The Washington Post first wrote about McDonnell's 1989 master's thesis. But looking at the deep internals of some of the polling flying around, the story doesn't look to be hurting McDonnell so much as it's helping Deeds.
Virginia's conflict of interest laws need a serious re-work, according to Del. Steve Shannon, D-Vienna, the Democratic nominee for attorney general. The situation involving Del. Phil Hamilton, R-Newport News, is proof that something isn't working in Richmond, Shannon said during...
If more political reporters would read and follow these steps, there'd be fewer keyboard-shaped dents in my forehead.
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