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By: Olympia Meola
Published: March 14, 2010 5:17 PM
Virginia’s state legislators are hitting the road, putting Richmond in the rearview after adjourning the 2010 regular session just short of 6 p.m. (The House at 5:52, the Senate at 5:48)
Gov. Bob McDonnell bid them adieu with a Sine Die letter thanking them for their “cooperation, and the general civility through which you dealt with our administration in our first sixty days together.”
This was McDonnell’s first legislative session as governor and he outlines what he considers among the greatest successes of the session including filling a $4.2 billion budget gap, spending money to attract more jobs to the state and advancing several education reforms. His office is boasting that nearly 80 percent of the governor’s initiatives passing the General Assembly.
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