Senate Majority Leader’s Statement

Apr 25, 2018 | News

Disagreements with the House’s Plan are Unchanged. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Senate Majority Leader's Statement News Release Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr. (R-James City), Co-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, today issued the following...

How Expansion Affects States Bond Ratings

Apr 25, 2018 | Economy

STATE CREDIT RATINGS Senate’s proposed budget places more money into Virginia’s cash reserves than the House’s plan      In the March 29, 2018, edition of The Richmond Times Dispatch, Virginia Secretary of Finance Aubrey Layne expressed his view that...

Expansion is Fueling the Opioid Epidemic

Apr 25, 2018 | Healthcare

Chairman Johnson Releases Report on How Medicaid Has Helped to Fuel the Opioid Epidemic WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report Wednesday, “Drugs for Dollars: How...

Speaker Howell Op-Ed on Medicaid Expansion

Apr 25, 2018 | Healthcare

Originally published in The Free-Lance Star: January 5, 2014 As the General Assembly prepares to convene for the 2014 session, lawmakers continue to debate the future of Medicaid expansion in Virginia. As I have said many times before, Medicaid should not be expanded...

Lower Pay for Teachers and Crowding

Apr 24, 2018 | Education

Crowding Out K-12 Education The real budget story behind those teachers strikes Following the nationwide trend, Medicaid has taken a growing toll on Oklahoma’s budget.   Medicaid and public pensionsWall Street Journal The lead editorial in today’s Wall...