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AMY DREWER
Capital News Service
RICHMOND — A bill authorizing the Virginia Department of Transportation to increase maximum speed limits throughout the state came to a screeching halt as the Senate Transportation Committee killed it with an 11-4 vote.
Sen. Kevin Miller, R-26th District, was a member of the minority that favored the defeated bill.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Emmett W. Hanger, R-Mt. Solon,
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