RICHMOND — Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says Washington risks a legal battle with the states should Congressional Democrats ram through health-care reform with an obscure parliamentary maneuver.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says the method congressional Democrats are considering to push through health-care reform may be unconstitutional.

Gov. Bob McDonnell is claiming an 80 percent success rate in his first legislative session.

If you want to track government spending, Virginia’s open-records law protects your ability to follow the money — before and after votes are counted.

Keeping pressure on state leaders regarding what they see as Virginia’s weak anti-bias protections, gay-rights group Equality Virginia is calling on college and university leadership to join their push for a change in state law.

Two university professors in Virginia gave opposing views on whether Perriello was right.

Virginia is taking away more than $620 million that would have been paid toward state employee and teacher pensions, but the state is leaving an IOU.

The 2010 General Assembly adjourned yesterday, one day later than scheduled, after speedy approval by weary lawmakers of a $70 billion-plus budget-balancing plan.

RICHMOND — You know you’re not having a good week when Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” lampoons Virginia’s anti-discrimination policy that excludes sexual orientation.

RICHMOND — House and Senate negotiators are inching toward a compromise budget-balancing plan, promising to have a deal on lawmakers’ desks for today’s overtime finale to the 2010 General Assembly.

RICHMOND — Gov. Bob McDonnell says he’s done enough to protect gay state employees from discrimination in the workplace.

RICHMOND — The General Assembly appears headed for overtime Sunday because of the inability of the House of Delegates and Senate to agree on a budget

General Assembly Democrats say Gov. Bob McDonnell isn’t going far enough to protect gay public employees — that he needs to put the law behind his promise to shield them from bias in the workplace.

The Virginia Senate this morning yanked anti-bias protections for gay workers from a deal-sweetening bill aimed at luring to Virginia a defense-and-systems giant with gay-friendly employment policies.

UVa. ‘grateful’ for move to reinstate gay protection

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has directed state agencies not to discriminate against gays, essentially overriding the state attorney general’s advice to colleges.

More than 1,000 people demonstrated at Virginia Commonwealth University today over the opinion from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that state colleges and universities cannot protect gays from discrimination without direction from the General Assembly.

Senators are retreating somewhat on fattened court fees to help balance Virginia’s recession-wracked budget, but delegates aren’t impressed.

Senate budget negotiators trimmed their proposed $51 million increase in court filing fees Tuesday by nearly one-fourth in an incremental step aimed at jump-starting state budget talks.

The Democratic-controlled Senate this afternoon approved Gov. Bob McDonnell’s three education reform initiatives.

A parliamentary maneuver yesterday in the House of Delegates will prevent the General Laws Committee from reconsidering a bill to include gays in the state’s anti-discrimination policy.

With a Tuesday deadline to reach a deal looming, the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee said the House is making a good-faith effort to break the impasse with the Senate.

Thousands of state and local government employees face layoffs because of the severe budget cuts.

RICHMOND — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have the votes needed to pass a health-care bill in the House of Representatives, Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-Henrico, said Friday.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli sent a letter to Virginia’s public colleges and universities on Thursday that advises them to rescind their policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

A Senate subcommittee created to block pro-gun legislation voted Thursday to shoot down numerous proposals to loosen the state’s gun laws, including a measure to repeal Virginia’s ban on buying more than one handgun per month.

The House of Delegates has approved legislation that would expand the state’s role in the charter-school approval process, a measure backed by Gov. Bob McDonnell.

A General Assembly resolution that supports Gov. Bob McDonnell’s request that convicted murderer Jens Soering be kept in a Virginia prison was approved in a House of Delegates committee Thursday.

Virgil H. Goode Jr. spoke to a Lynchburg Tea Party gathering Thursday night, and his comments centered mostly around spending.

A measure backed by Gov. Bob McDonnell that would create a framework for approving companies that offer virtual school programming to the state’s public school students made it out of the House Education Committee this morning.