Sunday, September 5, 2010
Tom PerrielloFiled Under: Technology 3 Comments
Friday, August 27, 2010
From Planned Parenthood of Virginia: This week, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued an opinion, at the request of Senator Ralph Smith (R-22) and Delegate Robert Marshall (R-13), stating the Virginia Board of Health has the legal authority to regulate abortion providers as ambulatory surgery centers. Currently, abortion providers in Virginia are regulated in the same [...]
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
RICHMOND-Governor Bob McDonnell Monday announced the members of his Virginia Health Reform Initiative Advisory Council. This Council will provide recommendations to the Governor towards a comprehensive strategy for implementing health reform in Virginia. The Advisory Council will go beyond federal health reform and recommend other innovative healthcare solutions that meet the needs of Virginia’s citizens [...]
Monday, August 2, 2010
Richmond (August 2, 2010) – (SEE VIDEO BELOW) A federal judge ruled today that Virginia does indeed have standing to bring its lawsuit seeking to invalidate the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The judge also ruled that Virginia had stated a legally sufficient claim in its complaint. In doing so, federal district court [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Thursday, July 1, 2010
A decision is expected in thirty days on the federal government’s motion to dismiss Virginia’s healthcare lawsuit. The case was argued by E. Duncan Getchell, Jr., Solicitor General of Virginia in Federal District Court today. The argument to dismiss the lawsuit stemmed from the federal government’s contention that Virginia did not have the standing to [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Friday, June 18, 2010
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service today announced that small firms may now begin applying for certification for tax credits or grants available under the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Program, created by the Affordable Care Act. These credits or grants are available for projects that show significant potential to produce new cost-saving therapies, create U.S. [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Monday, June 7, 2010
Negotiations between city finance personnel and Carilion Clinic have given birth to an arrangement that yields fractional real estate tax revenue for the city. The negotiated agreement will have Carilion, through its subsidiary Carilion Clinic Physicians, LLC pay one-sixth of the taxes on the building and the full tax amount on the land. Carilion has [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Monday, June 7, 2010
RICHMOND (June 7, 2010) 5:20 press release — Virginia has responded to the federal government’s attempt to dismiss the state’s lawsuit against the new federal health care law, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced today. In its motion to the court to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit, the federal government argued that Virginia lacks the standing to [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Monday, May 24, 2010
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in a Monday evening press release said that the federal government responded to Virginia’s lawsuit over the recently enacted federal health care law with a motion to dismiss the suit. In the motion to dismiss the suit, the federal government argued: that as of matter of jurisdiction and procedure, Virginia has no [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
UPDATE: This explains Cuccinelli’s red eyes Tuesday morning Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli preferred to sit rather then stand at an 8 a.m. coffee with members of the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce this past Tuesday. With one eyebrow raised, he illustrated sarcastically that “it’s been kind of a boring two and a half months.” Now [...]
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Senator Mark Warner arrived exactly at his appointed time Monday saying, “it’s a wild time to be in Washington.” Warner was breathless after having left Advance Auto after what he called a “spirited conversation.” He was prepared for another round as he lunched with the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce. Taking off his jacket Warner remarked [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Monday, March 22, 2010
UPDATE: Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer was heckler. Nobody wants to fess up to who called Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan a “baby killer” on the floor of the House of Representatives Sunday night. However, it was attributed to California Republican George Radanovich. Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gommorahtweeted Radanovich as the culprit Sunday night. California [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Monday, March 22, 2010
RICHMOND (March 22, 2010) – Statement from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli after the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the Senate’s health care bill: “The Office of the Attorney General of Virginia will move forward with our lawsuit against the federal government and its unconstitutional overreach of its authority with the passage of the federal [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
March 17, 2010 – Dear Speaker Pelosi: I am writing to urge you not to proceed with the Senate Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act under a so-called “deem and pass” rule because such a course of action would raise grave constitutional questions. Based upon media interviews and statements which I have seen, you [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
Thursday, September 10, 2009
VIDEO – ERIC CANTOR TEXTING DURING SPEECH ALEXANDRIA – Sen. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee for governor, released the following statement on Wednesday following President Obama’s address to Congress. “The President challenged all of us to help solve America’s health care crisis. I think Democrats and Republicans all agree that rising health care costs are [...]
Comments Off Read full story »
