Bob Goodlatte News

THEY'RE NOT ABOVE LYING.... When House Republicans finally unveiled their health care reform proposal this week, one of the glaring problems was that it did not prohibit private insurance companies from discriminating against consumers with pre-existing conditions.

A review of the agenda for the Virginia Association of Counties annual meeting being held at The Homestead in Bath County Sunday through Tuesday gave us an explanation.

The ink is not even dry on the health care bill passed in the House of Representatives Saturday night, but Virginia's Governor-Elect is not impressed.

Well, except for you poor schmucks over in the 5th Congressional District, who will have to put up with Tom Perriello for several more months.

Wow, what a frothing frenzy of flat-out fabrications and 200-proof bullshit we've had.

The 2009 Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference drew more than 750 participants - including a record number of more than 300 bioscience companies in attendance - for its annual bioscience and investor conference.

Democrats in the House of Representatives may not have enough votes to pass a proposed health care reform bill this weekend, according to a local congressman.

This week the healthcare debate got more heated. Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled their version of the bill.

STAUNTON a ' A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Oct. 26 to mark the beginning of construction on the Interstate 81 truck climbing lane project in Rockbridge County.

The 24th District House of Delegate race features a masonry construction contractor taking on an incumbent who is an assistant commonwealth's attorney.

Steep grades create gridlock on parts of Interstate 81, but a major fix is on the way.

Former presidential candidate Howard Dean will be one of the headliners at Mid-Atlantic Bio , the region's annual biotech conference, next week.

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program is among the most popular federal conservation programs.

I n the 24th District, our choice for the House seat is incumbent Ben Cline, a Republican from Rockbridge County.

LEXINGTON - With noisy trucks passing north and south on average every 10 seconds, local and state officials joined the Virginia Department of Transportation in a ground-breaking ceremony Monday on a hill overlooking Interstate 81 to tout a $74.2 million project to add a truck-climbing lane.

Leaders break ground on a project that will affect everyone who drives up I-81. This marks the start of construction for a new truck climbing lane in Rockbridge County from just north of Lexington to two miles north of Fairfield.

Broad conservation initiatives being undertaken by the Natural Resources Conservation Service were given extra scrutiny at an Oct.

If someone said to me a decade ago that the ideas that tax planners use, some on a daily basis, might be violating a patent, I would have dismissed it as crazy talk.

Congressman Bob Goodlatte, USDA Rural Development State Director, Ellen Davis, Buena Vista Fire Chief Tommy Keiser, Natural Bridge Fire Chief Gomez Lee and other federal, state and local officials will be celebration on October 29, 2009 .

The House Judiciary Committee today voted 20-9 to approve legislation aimed at repealing antitrust exemptions for health insurers.