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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 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.

Two of the six Democrats in Virginia's congressional delegation last night voted against President Barack Obama's 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care reform plan.

The final health care reform bill could top 2,000 pages. That's a lot of detail for House members to pour over.

By Diana McFarland Smithfield Times News editor FRANKLIN - Besides losing their jobs, workers at the Franklin paper mill are also angry with corporations taking manufacturing jobs out of the country.

CC: [I recently graduated from] John Tyler Community College, Midlothian campus, with a degree in political science.

A Virginia congressman is working to help those affected by International Paper Company's closing in Franklin get back on their feet.

Rep. Randy Forbes has set up a Website to help people affected by International Paper Co.'s decision to close its plant in Franklin.

Franklin, VA _ Governor Tim Kaine spent Friday afternoon in Franklin, visiting with some of the 1,100 workers who will lose their jobs when the International Paper Company closes next spring.

Rep. Randy Forbes has set up a Web site to help people affected by International Paper Co.'s decision to close its plant in Franklin.

The first machine shutdown is just days away at the International Paper Mill in Franklin.

The bad news dropped like a boulder on Isle of Wight County: The International Paper plant in Franklin will close, a casualty of falling demand.

Congressman J. Randy Forbes has announced legislation to improve current law to permit qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms.

A final defense spending bill likely to be signed by President Obama won't contain provisions blocking a Navy landing field from area counties or requiring host counties to sign off on the airfield.

Oct. 19--PETERSBURG -- When members of the Tri-Cities hospitality industry learned about Fort Lee's plan to build a mega-hotel, they reached out to one another.

Just under two years after the Tri-Cities successfully landed one of the state's biggest industrial development projects ever, officials will gather here to celebrate the official start of construction at the Rolls-Royce Crosspointe plant in Prince George County.

Both Democratic and Republican activists realizeA that this yeara s winning party for Governor and the House of Delegates will control the most important levers of power in the state.

Congressional investigators are reviewing how the Department of Defense is spending billions of dollars in stimulus funding at military installations across the system.

For nearly 75 years it stood out in California's Mojave desert: a roughly 6 foot cross giving silent tribute to long dead World War I soldiers.