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At the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry hearing, Rep. Ben Cline, R-Botetourt, denounced what he called the “sham impeachment of this president.”
It might’ve been his Thanksgiving-themed quip about the impeachment report being a “half-baked bird.” Maybe it was his movie analogy, suggesting Democrats have reached the “Empire Strikes Back” phase of their efforts to oust President Donald Trump, but the rebels will win in the end.
Ben Cline started his politics career working for Rep. Bob Goodlatte. After 16 years in the House of Delegates, he joined Congress this year.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Ben Cline walked out of a meeting about the ballooning cost of higher education frustrated. He had just been defeated — again.
Last year a bipartisan group in Congress passed a sweeping law to address the opioid crisis. But the opioid epidemic continues to rage in states like Virginia and there’s a new Congress, yet the crisis isn’t talked about much at the Capitol these days.
Some lawmakers in the Commonwealth want that to change.
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Congressman Ben Cline said Tuesday that no one is above serving. So, that's exactly what he did at Roanoke's Rescue Mission.
He toured the facility, including the warehouse where hundreds of boxes are packed each week that are then given out each Saturday to families in need.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSET) -- Congressman Ben Cline released a statement after Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom were granted parole on Monday.
Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom — who were convicted in the horrific 1985 slayings of Haysom's parents — were granted parole Monday and will be released to immigration officials for deportation to their home countries of Germany and Canada, respectively.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) -- Lawmakers are reacting to the first public impeachment hearings.