DOCSLIB.ORG

Congressional Record—Senate S3470

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Congressional Record—Senate S3470 S3470 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 26, 2021 The Democrats had already decided hodgepodge of stuff—stuff like electric (2) the people of the United States will to run up the American people’s credit cars and welfare programs. This is $7 never be fully protected against the COVID– cards no matter what. Their first pur- trillion of mediocre socialism and lib- 19 pandemic until the pandemic is also chase was a $1.9 trillion excuse for a eral social engineering. No serious ex- brought under control through vaccination around the world; COVID bill that the Democrats pert thinks this is what our economy (3) the release of Special Drawing Rights rammed through on a party-line vote. actually needs. No wonder Larry Sum- by the International Monetary Fund, as was Even liberal economists and even mers says he is concerned that these done after the 2008 global economic crisis, is former advisers to Presidents Clinton proposals are ‘‘substantially excessive a no-cost way to help poorer countries pro- and Obama cautioned that the Demo- . way overdoing the requisite re- cure COVID–19 vaccines and protect against crats’ bill was way larger than the re- sponse.’’ the instability caused by a severe economic maining hole in our economy, badly The sooner this administration can downturn; tailored, and might well cause infla- get the memo, the more bipartisan (4) helping protect against another global economic meltdown by releasing Special tion. progress we will be able to make, and Drawing Rights is also a way to help protect So everyone, from Republicans to lib- the better off working families will be. United States export jobs at home, and why eral economists, warned that the f the move is supported by leaders of United Democrats’ bad bill could easily cause States businesses and labor organizations; CONCLUSION OF MORNING inflation that would hurt ordinary and BUSINESS American families. Well, look where we (5) any allocations of Special Drawing are today. Where are we today? We just The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning Rights approved by the International Mone- got the most dramatic monthly infla- business is closed. tary Fund to help with the purchase of COVID–19 vaccines and stem the worst eco- tion report in over a decade. Ask any f nomic impact of the pandemic should in- working family about gas prices, food LEGISLATIVE SESSION clude ongoing efforts to discourage countries prices, home prices, lumber prices, that are allies of the United States from ex- used car prices. One survey just found --- changing Special Drawing Rights for hard that more than 80 percent of American ENDLESS FRONTIER ACT—Resumed currencies with rogue countries and follow- families are literally tightening their up by the International Monetary Fund to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under audit how such allocations were spent. household budgets because of the the previous order, the Senate will re- threat of inflation. sume consideration of S. 1260, which The senior assistant legislative clerk Yet the problem with the Democrats’ the clerk will report. read as follows: product wasn’t just how much credit The senior assistant legislative clerk and borrowed money it flooded into the The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. KENNEDY] read as follows: proposes an amendment numbered 1710 to economy; the problem was also how lit- A bill (S. 1260) to establish a new Direc- amendment No. 1502. tle of substance American families got torate for Technology and Innovation in the for the money. Larry Summers, former National Science Foundation, to establish a The amendment is as follows: President Clinton’s Treasury Sec- regional technology hub program, to require AMENDMENT NO. 1710 retary, put it this way—and this is the a strategy and report on economic security, Larry Summers who also had a role in science, research, innovation, manufac- (Purpose: To prohibit allocations of Special turing, and job creation, to establish a crit- Drawing Rights at the International Mone- the Obama administration. tary Fund for perpetrators of genocide and Here is what he said: ical supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes. state sponsors of terrorism without con- What’s striking about [that bill, the gressional authorization) COVID bill] is that all of the trillions of dol- Pending: lars—all of it—does not include a penny di- Schumer amendment No. 1502, in the na- At the end of title III of division C, add the rected at ‘‘building back better.’’ ture of a substitute. following: He continued: Cantwell amendment No. 1527 (to amend- SEC. 3314. PROHIBITION ON ALLOCATIONS OF ment No. 1502), of a perfecting nature. SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS AT It transfers to state and local governments AMENDMENT NOS. 2014, 1710 AND 1911 TO INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND that don’t have any new budget problem. FOR PERPETRATORS OF GENOCIDE AMENDMENT NO. 1502 It’s paying people who have been unem- AND STATE SPONSORS OF TER- ployed more in unemployment insurance The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under RORISM WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL than they earned when they were working. the previous order, the following AUTHORIZATION. It’s giving checks to families in the 90th per- amendments will be called up and re- Section 6(b) of the Special Drawing Rights centile of income distribution. ported by number. Act (22 U.S.C. 286q(b)) is amended by adding That is from Larry Summers. He is a The senior assistant legislative clerk at the end the following: Democrat. He is a friend of the admin- read as follows: ‘‘(3) Unless Congress by law authorizes istration’s. The Senator from Illinois [Mr. DURBIN] such action, neither the President nor any The Democrats’ hard-left turn has al- proposes an amendment numbered 2014 to person or agency shall on behalf of the ready hurt our economy, but they still amendment No. 1502. United States vote to allocate Special Draw- The amendment is as follows: ing Rights under article XVIII, sections 2 seem to think that this massive bill and 3, of the Articles of Agreement of the should only actually just be the appe- AMENDMENT NO. 2014 Fund to a member country of the Fund, if tizer. The administration has proposed (Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate the government of the member country has— a total of about $7 trillion of spending on the allocation of Special Drawing ‘‘(A) committed genocide at any time dur- in its first few months in office. That Rights by the International Monetary ing the 10-year period ending with the date absurdly overpriced COVID package Fund to help other countries procure of the vote; or would actually be the cheapest of the COVID–19 vaccines and protect against the ‘‘(B) been determined by the Secretary of three massive bills the Democrats ac- economic instability caused by the COVID– State, as of the date of the enactment of the 19 pandemic) Strategic Competition Act of 2021, to have tually want to pass. repeatedly provided support for acts of inter- For some perspective, about $7 tril- At the end of subtitle A of title II of divi- sion C, add the following: national terrorism, for purposes of— lion is considerably more money in in- ‘‘(i) section 1754(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Export flation-adjusted terms than America SEC. 3219L. SENSE OF SENATE ON ALLOCATION OF SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS BY Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. spent in fighting and winning World INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 4813(c)(1)(A)(i)); War II. The Biden administration RELATING TO COVID–19 PANDEMIC. ‘‘(ii) section 620A of the Foreign Assistance wants to tax, borrow, and print more It is the sense of the Senate that— Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371); money than America spent on World (1) it is in the strategic interests of the ‘‘(iii) section 40(d) of the Arms Export Con- United States to help ensure that COVID–19 trol Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(d)); or War II to finance a grab bag of mis- ‘‘(iv) any other provision of law.’’. cellaneous liberal programs that would vaccines are available to other countries, particularly poorer countries with limited The Senator from Alaska [Mr. SULLIVAN] further jack up prices on the things resources, not only as a timely live-saving families actually need to buy. It took proposes an amendment numbered 1911 to and humanitarian measure, but also as the amendment No. 1502. less money to win a global war than best way to protect hard-fought gains made these Democrats want to spend on a against the pandemic in the United States; The amendment is as follows: VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:03 May 27, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G26MY6.005 S26MYPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE May 26, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3471 AMENDMENT NO. 1911 vate practice, and then got involved in like moment, he said: Politics be (Purpose: To require institutions of higher Republican politics in Virginia at that damned. We are going to do what is education to submit attestations on free- point. right for Virginia. dom of speech) I think Senator KAINE will probably The truth was, we ended up fixing At the end of title V of division B, add the speak to this. Being involved in Repub- that challenge, and Virginia got named following: lican politics in the late fifties and the best managed State and the best SEC. 2528. FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR early sixties was the progressive party State for business, and we made record AWARD. in Virginia. investments in education. I am not (a) IN GENERAL.—Consistent with the First He ended up serving President Nixon Amendment to the Constitution for public sure we would have gotten there if institutions, and in compliance with stated as Secretary of the Navy, and he was John Warner had not been willing to institutional policies regarding freedom of the head of the Bicentennial.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Term Potomac the FALL 2009
    The FALL 2009 THE POTOMAC SCHOOL NONPROFIT ORG. Potomac 1301 Potomac School Road U.S. Postage McLean, VA 22101 PAID Rochester, NY www.potomacschool.org Term Permit No. 357 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF THE POTOMAC SCHOOL THE CRAFT OF The Craft TEACHING of Teaching THE OF CRAFT • Annual Report TEACHING For more information, visit our Web site at www.potomacschool.org. ANNUAL REPORT 2008–2009 • OCTOBER 2 NOVEMBER 27 DECEMBER 5 Fall • • • LOWER SCHOOL ALUMNI SQUASH, REVELS 2009 DEDICATION 10:00 AM BASKETBALL, AND FOOTBALL GAMES 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM P65047_CVR.indd 1 8/26/09 3:40:41 PM THE ANNUAL HEAD OF SCHOOL The Potomac Term Geoff rey A. Jones 1301 Potomac School Road McLean VA 22101 FUND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Tel: 703-356-4100 Jill Lucas Fax: 703-749-6308 JULY 1, 2009 – www.potomacschool.org MANAGING EDITOR JUNE 30, 2010 THE POTOMAC TERM is published twice a year. Maria Cecil Send letters, comments and article submissions to the address above, or email to [email protected]. ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Catalone Design Co. LLC Alumni inquiries should be directed to The Potomac School Alumni Offi ce at [email protected]. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Maria Cecil • Jill Lucas • Suzanne Marshall • Betty Miracle [Cover] Rising fi fth grader Tarik Lamech works with Middle School Cort Morgan • Charlotte Nelsen • Sheila O’Marah Science teacher Greg Mueller. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Deborah Kolt • Bern Hoff mann • Development staff • Art faculty This issue of The Potomac Term has been printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifi ed paper, which sets the highest social and environmental standards in the paper market.
    [Show full text]
  • The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role in Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis
    Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - College of Education & Professional Studies Urban Education (Darden) Winter 1991 The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role in Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis Alexander Stewart Leidholdt Old Dominion University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/urbanservices_education_etds Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Education Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Mass Communication Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons Recommended Citation Leidholdt, Alexander S.. "The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role in Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis" (1991). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), dissertation, , Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/tb1v-f795 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/urbanservices_education_etds/119 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Education & Professional Studies (Darden) at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT NEWSPAPER'S ROLE IN MODERATING NORFOLK, VIRGINIA'S 1958 SCHOOL DESEGREGATION CRISIS by Alexander Stewart Leidholdt B.A. May 1978, Virginia Wesleyan College M.S. May 1980, Clarion University Ed.S. December 1984, Indiana University A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Old Dominion Unversity in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY URBAN SERVICES OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY December, 1991 Approved By: Maurice R. Berube, Dissertation Chair Concentration Area^TFlrector ember Dean of the College of Education Member Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.
    [Show full text]
  • Nomination of Dr. Carla D. Hayden, to Be Librarian of Congress
    S. HRG. 114–285 NOMINATION OF DR. CARLA D. HAYDEN, TO BE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION APRIL 20, 2016 Printed for the use of the Committee on Rules and Administration ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 20–359 WASHINGTON : 2016 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Sep 11 2014 15:14 Jun 23, 2016 Jkt 097434 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 C:\DOCS\20359.TXT SHAWN DeShaun on LAP51NQ082 with DISTILLER COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION SECOND SESSION ROY BLUNT, Missouri, Chairman LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York MITCH MCCONNELL, Kentucky DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois PAT ROBERTS, Kansas TOM UDALL, New Mexico RICHARD SHELBY, Alabama MARK R. WARNER, Virginia TED CRUZ, Texas PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West Virginia AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota JOHN BOOZMAN, Arkansas ANGUS S. KING, JR., Maine ROGER WICKER, Mississippi STACY MCHATTON MCBRIDE, Staff Director KELLY L. FADO, Democratic Staff Director (II) VerDate Sep 11 2014 15:14 Jun 23, 2016 Jkt 097434 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\20359.TXT SHAWN DeShaun on LAP51NQ082 with DISTILLER C O N T E N T S OPENING STATEMENT OF: Hon. Roy Blunt, Chairman, a U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri ............
    [Show full text]
  • November 1, 2019 the Honorable Mark Warner the Honorable Bill Cassidy, MD United States Senate United States Senate 703 Hart S
    November 1, 2019 The Honorable Mark Warner The Honorable Bill Cassidy, MD United States Senate United States Senate 703 Hart Senate Office Building 520 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Chris Van Hollen The Honorable Shelley Moore Capito United States Senate United States Senate 110 Hart Senate Office Building 172 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senators Warner, Cassidy, Van Hollen, and Capito, AcademyHealth, the professional society for health services research and health policy, is writing to thank you for your efforts to reauthorize the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and provide comment on the recently released discussion draft of the “Patient Centered Outcomes research Institute Reauthorization Act of 2019.” AcademyHealth’s 4,000 members produce and use health services research and are highly engaged with PCORI and its work. Our members informed the creation of PCORI, have served in its leadership, and have received funding support. Our members also have extensive experience in the federal health research ecosystem and value PCORI’s unique contributions to the evidence to improve patient outcomes. We therefore recognize how important it is for Congress to act now to reauthorize PCORI. It must have stable, predictable funding to ensure that the important patient-centered outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research it supports will continue without interruption. AcademyHealth strongly supports the discussion draft, including the modifications to PCORI’s authorizing statute that reflect many of our reauthorization principles, and offers the following comments: Support for a 10-Year Reauthorization of PCORI and Its Current Funding Mechanism PCORI and its Trust Fund were established to provide, stable, predictable funding for patient- centered outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research, as well as the dissemination of that research.
    [Show full text]
  • To: Senator Mark Warner, Senator Tim Kaine, Congressman Ben Cline, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton CC
    To: Senator Mark Warner, Senator Tim Kaine, Congressman Ben Cline, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton CC: Governor Ralph Northam, Secretary of Transportation Shannon Valentine, Staunton District CTB Member Dixon Whitworth From: Kate Wofford, Executive Director, Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley Keven Walker, Chief Executive Office, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation 9386 South Congress Street, New Market VA 22844 Date: April 17, 2020 RE: Targeted Approach to Possible Interstate 81 Funds in Federal Infrastructure Package We understand that leaders in Congress and the Administration are in discussion about a possible infrastructure bill as part of the federal response to COVID 19 impacts, as well as possible reauthorization of the federal surface transportation law. We expect that you are receiving a number of requests from localities, constituents, interest groups, and others seeking infrastructure funds for priority projects. We are writing to urge a targeted and well-considered approach to any federal funding for transportation projects in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, particularly any funding for projects involving Interstate 81. The I-81 corridor in Virginia can certainly use improvements, and it has been a focus of concern for local and regional travelers for many years. In the past 15 years, there have been a wide range of proposals to address these concerns—some have been simply awful, while others have been fairly good. The awful ones call for extensive, excessive widening of I-81 regardless of the cost to taxpayers, transportation needs, or impacts on communities, health, and natural and historic resources. Among other things, overbuilding on I-81 would degrade the rural character of the corridor— damaging historic resources and streams and destroying productive farmland, homes and businesses.
    [Show full text]
  • Massive Resistance and the Origins of the Virginia Technical College System
    Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges Volume 22 | Issue 2 Article 6 10-10-2019 Massive Resistance and the Origins of the Virginia Technical College System Richard A. Hodges Ed.D., Thomas Nelson Community College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.vccs.edu/inquiry Part of the Higher Education Commons, History Commons, and the Politics and Social Change Commons Recommended Citation Hodges, R. A. (2019). Massive Resistance and the Origins of the Virginia Technical College System. Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 22 (2). Retrieved from https://commons.vccs.edu/inquiry/vol22/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ VCCS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Inquiry: The ourJ nal of the Virginia Community Colleges by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ VCCS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hodges: Massive Resistance and the Origins of the VTCS MASSIVE RESISTANCE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE VIRGINIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM RICHARD A. HODGES INTRODUCTION In the summer of 1964, Dr. Dana B. Hamel, Director of the Roanoke Technical Institute in Roanoke, Virginia received a phone call that would change the course of Virginia higher education. The call was from Virginia Governor Albertis Harrison requesting Hamel serve as the Director of the soon to be established Department of Technical Education. The department, along with its governing board, would quickly establish a system of technical colleges located regionally throughout Virginia, with the first of those colleges opening their doors for classes in the fall of 1965.
    [Show full text]
  • Surname Notes Abbott Family Abbott, James Scotland and Virginia Abel
    Surname Notes Abbott Family Abbott, James Scotland and Virginia Abel/Abel - Franklin Families Abshire Family Bedford, Franklin and Tazewell Counties Adams and Vaden Families Adams Family Massachusetts Adams Family Campbell County, Virginia Adams, Lela C. Biography Adams, Thomas Albert 1839-1888 Addison, Lucy Biography 1861-1937 Adkins Family Pittsylvania County, Virginia Adkins, John Ward Airheart/Airhart/Earhart Family Aker, James Biography 1871-1986 Akers Family Floyd County, Virginia Albert Family Alcorn-Lusk Family MSS C-2 Beverly R. Hoch Collection Alderman, Edwin Anderson Biography 1861-1931 Alderman, John Perry Biography - d. 1995 Alderson Family Alexander Family Alexander Family MSS C-2 Beverly R. Hoch Collection Alexander-Gooding Family MSS C-2 Beverly R. Hoch Collection Alford-Liggon Family MSS C-2 Beverly R. Hoch Collection Aliff/Ayliffe Family Allan Family Allen Family Little Creek, Pulaski County, Virginia Carroll County, Virginia - Court Allen Family Proceedings Allen Family MSS C-2 Beverly R. Hoch Collection Allen, Cary Biographty 1767-1795 Allen, George Allen, Robert N. Biography 1889-1831 Allen, Susan Biography Allen, William R. Fluvanna County, Virginia (Oversize File) Allerton Family Alley Family "Allees All Around" Allison Family MSS C-2 Beverly R. Hoch Collection Almond, James Lindsay, Jr. Almond, Russell E,. Biography - d.1905 Alphin Family Alt/Ault Family (Oversize File) Altig/Altick/Altice/Attic Altizer Family Ames Family Ammon Family Ammonet Family Anastasia - Manahan, Mrs. Anna Biography d. 1984 Surname Notes Anderson Family Craig County, Virginia Anderson Family George Smith Anderson (Oversize File) MSS C-2 Beverly R. Hoch Collection (3 Anderson Family folders) Anderson Famiy Prince George County, Virginia Anderson, Wax, Kemper Families Anderson, Cassandra M.
    [Show full text]
  • Bill Bolling Contemporary Virginia Politics
    6/29/21 A DISCUSSION OF CONTEM PORARY VIRGINIA POLITICS —FROM BLUE TO RED AND BACK AGAIN” - THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GOP IN VIRGINIA 1 For the first 200 years of Virginia's existence, state politics was dominated by the Democratic Party ◦ From 1791-1970 there were: Decades Of ◦ 50 Democrats who served as Governor (including Democratic-Republicans) Democratic ◦ 9 Republicans who served as Governor Dominance (including Federalists and Whigs) ◦ During this same period: ◦ 35 Democrats represented Virginia in the United States Senate ◦ 3 Republicans represented Virginia in the United States Senate 2 1 6/29/21 ◦ Likewise, this first Republican majority in the Virginia General Democratic Assembly did not occur until Dominance – 1998. General ◦ Democrats had controlled the Assembly General Assembly every year before that time. 3 ◦ These were not your “modern” Democrats ◦ They were a very conservative group of Democrats in the southern tradition What Was A ◦ A great deal of their focus was on fiscal Democrat? conservativism – Pay As You Go ◦ They were also the ones who advocated for Jim Crow and Massive resistance up until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of in 1965 4 2 6/29/21 Byrd Democrats ◦ These were the followers of Senator Harry F. Byrd, a former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator ◦ Senator Byrd’s “Byrd Machine” dominated and controlled Virginia politics for this entire period 5 ◦ Virginia didn‘t really become a competitive two-party state until Ơͥ ͣ ǝ, and the first real From Blue To competition emerged at the statewide level Red œ
    [Show full text]
  • VOTE! Ning in All Four Jurisdictions in the 8Th Congressional District and Run- Ning First in 133, Or 82 Percent, of the 163 Precincts
    Vol. 39, No. 7 www.arlingtondemocrats.org July 2014 Beyer wins all four jurisdictions Don Beyer recorded an impressive primary victory June 10, win- VOTE! ning in all four jurisdictions in the 8th Congressional District and run- ning first in 133, or 82 percent, of the 163 precincts. Overall, Beyer got 46 percent of the vote in the district, not an absolute majority but a very impressive total given that there were SUNDAY seven candidates. Furthermore, he was 28 percentage points ahead of the Number Two candidate, Patrick Hope. (This is no joke) Beyer won in all four jurisdictions in the district, though by widely varying margins. Beyer’s margin was lowest in Arlington where he took 39 percent and was chased closely by Hope with 33 percent. Beyer did better in Alexandria with 44 percent, chased by Adam Ebbin The Republican with 21 percent. Beyer got an absolute majority of 52 percent in speaker of the Fairfax County and ran away with it in Falls Church where he got 72 percent. House of Delegates Hope came in second in both Fairfax and Falls Church, but a has fixed the elec- very distant second with 14 percent and 12 percent respectively. continued on page eight tion to replace Del. Bob Brink for Tues- day, August 19, re- Brink retires after 17 years quiring ACDC to Delegate Bob Brink announced last Friday that he was resigning from the House of Delegates effective Monday, June 30, after 17 years hold its caucus to in office. pick a nominee this Brink, 67, is the senior member among the four delegates repre- senting Arlington.
    [Show full text]
  • A History of the Virginia Democratic Party, 1965-2015
    A History of the Virginia Democratic Party, 1965-2015 A Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation “with Honors Distinction in History” in the undergraduate colleges at The Ohio State University by Margaret Echols The Ohio State University May 2015 Project Advisor: Professor David L. Stebenne, Department of History 2 3 Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Mills Godwin, Linwood Holton, and the Rise of Two-Party Competition, 1965-1981 III. Democratic Resurgence in the Reagan Era, 1981-1993 IV. A Return to the Right, 1993-2001 V. Warner, Kaine, Bipartisanship, and Progressive Politics, 2001-2015 VI. Conclusions 4 I. Introduction Of all the American states, Virginia can lay claim to the most thorough control by an oligarchy. Political power has been closely held by a small group of leaders who, themselves and their predecessors, have subverted democratic institutions and deprived most Virginians of a voice in their government. The Commonwealth possesses the characteristics more akin to those of England at about the time of the Reform Bill of 1832 than to those of any other state of the present-day South. It is a political museum piece. Yet the little oligarchy that rules Virginia demonstrates a sense of honor, an aversion to open venality, a degree of sensitivity to public opinion, a concern for efficiency in administration, and, so long as it does not cost much, a feeling of social responsibility. - Southern Politics in State and Nation, V. O. Key, Jr., 19491 Thus did V. O. Key, Jr. so famously describe Virginia’s political landscape in 1949 in his revolutionary book Southern Politics in State and Nation.
    [Show full text]
  • A Survey of 804 Likely Voters - Virginia Statewide - July, 2014
    Center for Public Policy : Polls Where policy matters. A Survey of 804 Likely Voters - Virginia Statewide - July, 2014 Area: SouthwestSouthwest: 18.0 % DC SuburbsSuburbs: 25.0 % SoutheastSoutheast: 4.0 % Tidewater-Hampton RoadsRoads: 18.0 % No. Virginia ExurbsExurbs: 11.0 % CentralCentral: 6.0 % Richmond areaarea: 18.0 % DC Suburbs No. Virginia Exurbs Richmond area Central Tidewater-Hampton Roads Southeast Southwest Respondent's Gender MaleMaleMale:Male 47.0 % FemaleFemale: 53.0 % Male Female Question 1 Are you 18 years or older and registered to vote in state of Virginia? 100 % - Yes Question 2 On November 4th of this year, there will be a general election for United States Senate, Congress and other offices. What are the chances of your voting in the November 4th General Election? Are you almost certain to vote, will you probably vote or would you say you are not sure if you will vote in that election? 100% - Yes Question 4 To begin with, do you think things in Virginia are generally going in the right direction or are they off on the wrong track? Don't know/Not SureSure: 15.0 % Right DirectionDirection: 48.0 % Wrong TrackTrack: 37.0 % Right Direction Wrong Track Don't know/Not Sure Question 5 And how about the region of Virginia that you live in? Do you think things in your region are generally going in the right direction or are they off on the wrong track Don't know/Not SureSure: 8.0 % Wrong TrackTrack: 30.0 % Right DirectionDirection: 62.0 % Right Direction Wrong Track Don't know/Not Sure Question 6-11 Now here is a list of people.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 299 Literature Review the 1954 Supreme Court Ruling in Brown V
    1 299 Literature Review The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education brought tremendous upheaval to the state of Virginia, which had operated under deep segregation for decades. Under the influence of an extremely conservative political machine headed by Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia enacted a strategy of total opposition to the Court’s decision. The “massive resistance” movement, as Byrd called it, was loosely based on the doctrine of interposition and included several legislative attempts to impede integration in the state. Politicians sympathetic to the Byrd machine withheld state funding from integrated schools and created pupil assignment plans that awarded only a few token spots to black students at white schools. The movement, which most historians cite as taking place from 1954 to 1956, ultimately caused temporary school closings in Charlottesville, Norfolk, and Prince Edward County, Virginia. While much has been written on the aftermath of the Brown ruling in the South, relatively few monographs have been published about Virginia’s massive resistance in particular.1 The majority of books specifically dealing with Virginian resistance were published in the 1960s and 1970s, a trend that presumably occurred because of the large interest in school integration during the Civil Rights movement. Until recently, books concerning Virginia’s massive resistance sought to explain it only through the actions of conservative whites who adamantly opposed the 1 For an overview of resistance to desegregation in the South, see Reed Sarrait, The Ordeal of Desegregation: The First Decade (New York: Harper and Row, 1966); Numan V. Bartley, The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950’s (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1969); Francis M.
    [Show full text]