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When I left home for Richmond this week, there was a pretty strong wind blowing. It was just a breeze compared to the whirlwind that's taking pVace here.
Mr. Speaker is in complete charge, with earlier than usual cut-off dates for bills and jacking up all Committee Chairmen to "get cracking" or else.
Ninety percent of carried over bills from last year are getting killed on the spot. Those that are passed have had their original clout lowered to a third.
No damage will be done to our good folks as a result of last years action, thank goodness. Haven’t heard from the Senate side yet, except to report that House Bill 346, the Agricultural District Bill, was killed by a Senate committee Wednesday morning.
The Virginia Farm Bureau backed oft so the Patron asked that it be put to sleep gracefully. It had so many amendments put on and taken off. it was if a fellow was "washing his feet with his socks on". Nothing was getting a good cleaning.
That afternoon we convened in joint session to listen to the Governor’s State of the Commonwealth address. He stated that the Commonwealth was in good fiscal shape, especially when you compare it to sister states, and then proceeded to divide up a S260 million expenditure expected during 1981. including of course, the $180 million surplus.
He plans to double the state employee raise this year from 4 'A percent to 9 percent, trying to catch up with inflation and the business world, and an increase of $56 per student basic aid which will be a help but is no where near enough to offset past years’ mandates and the doubling cost of gasoline and heating fuels.
He mentioned a reduction of over 1700 people on state
90.8%