Bob Goodlatte News

Sen. Claire McCaskill took her crusade against wartime contracting abuses to the top rungs of the Obama administration in a hearing about Afghanistan policy.

The lion's share of revenue earned by U.S. farmers for controlling greenhouse gases under a House-passed climate bill would be paid for growing trees, analysts told an Agriculture subcommittee on Thursday.

Mirroring reforms in the field of mental health, Western State Hospital will once again get a major overhaul.

Gabriela Rodriguez, Leticia Garcia, Maria Rodriguez, and Herminia Pichardo work in the sorting area of Erath Veneer's facility in Rocky Mount.

On Thursday, Southeastern Director of the Center for Bioethical Reform Fletcher Armstrong spoke to a group of students as part of SGA's week-long "Reclaiming Others' Sacred Existence " event.

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 .

Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte has joined Virginia U.S. Sen. Jim Webb in criticizing the Obama administration's decision to try 9/11 terrorists in U.S. courts.

The health care reform bill now goes to the Senate, after the House passed the measure late Saturday night.

In Tuesday's News Leader, the cartoonist McCloskey goes off the deep end. Again. In his cartoon, a woman writes to Congressman Goodlatte.

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.