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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints recently met a milestone in donations to Feeding America Southwest Virginia.
According to Bob Frampton, of FASWVA, “The Church has donated a total of 160,000 pounds of foods since 2012”.
A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee accused Democrats on Friday of putting their desire to impeach President Trump ahead of the needs of the country and the laws of the land.
At the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry hearing, Rep. Ben Cline, R-Botetourt, denounced what he called the “sham impeachment of this president.”
A group of lawmakers on Wednesday (Dec. 4) sent a stern letter to the director of the American Law Institute expressing their concerns with a planned Copyright Restatement Project that they believe has the potential to upend copyright law interpretation.
Representatives regarding President Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced she will proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump.
“The President leaves us no choice but to act,” Pelosi said while announcing her decision.
Both Sen. Mark Warner (D) and Rep. Ben Cline (R) reacted to the news.
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.