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The Hampton Roads Congressional Delegation asked President Obama Monday to support Gov.

Army takes Fort Lee hotel plan to Congress before environmental review Nov. 24--PETERSBURG -- Army officials have made a formal request to Congress to approve a 1,000-room hotel at Fort Lee even though an environmental review of the proposal has not been completed, a spokesman for a local coalition of business owners said Monday.

This Saturday, Tom Sullivan , of Newport News , will be installed as the new president of the Virginia Peninsula Association of Realtors.

A conservative civil liberties group is urging the dismissal of a lawsuit by an atheist group that wants to remove engravings of "In God We Trust" and "under God" from a display in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center .

Several GOP lawmakers seem to have blown off House Judiciary committee votes on the Patriot Act in favor of toasting Tea Partiers at Michelle Bachmann's rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill yesterday.

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.