Two of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s top agenda items, taxes and a new arena, are faltering as Democrats look to press their political advantage in the General Assembly.
access and increase the minimum wage, just a few of the partisan priorities that ensure a showdown with Gov. Glenn Youngkin as this year’s legislative session reaches its midpoint.The Senate and House of Delegates acted on hundreds of measures during a two-day marathon leading up to Tuesday’s “crossover” — the deadline for each chamber to finish work on its own bills and send them across the Capitol to the other.
“We wanted to make sure that we put them on the record to let them know that this is not something that you play with,” Scott said in an interview.When the bill came up for debate on the House floor Monday, Republicans tried to amend it to include exceptions, but Scott ruled that such changes were opposite to the intention of the bill. Minority Leader — and former speaker — Del. Todd Gilbert then challenged Scott’s ruling, an extremely rare parliamentary move that drew gasps from other members.
“I don’t know where the absurdity of this theater ends,” Gilbert said later, accusing Democrats of staging the effort for political gain. In the end, all but three Republicans present joined Democrats in voting against the bill, including Griffin. One Republican voted in favor of it, and two abstained.
Favola brought a similar bill last year, which passed the chamber then with even more Republican support. But it died that year in the House, then under Republican control, after Youngkin’s deputy secretary of public safety and homeland security voiced concerns about setting limits on search warrants.Youngkin’s effort to overhaul the state tax system is dead legislatively but remains embedded in his proposed two-year budget.
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