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It was lhomas Jefferson s idea that the Virginia General Assembly should be a “citizens’ legislature”. It was his view that the elected members of the House of Delegates and Senate should spend no more than 60 days in the capital city. The rest of the year, they were to be—and are— teachers, lawyers, businesspersons and farmers, living productive lives in their home districts. Jefferson’s vision of a part time legislature endures to this day.
I have no knowledge of the number of bills introduced in the General Assembly in Jefferson’s time, but this year more than 2,700 pieces of legislation have seen the light of day. Each bill must be referred to a committee and then considered by a subcommittee. If a bill is given a positive vote there, it must be taken up by the full committee and passed there before it can reach the floor of the House. Which brings me to my point: members of the House of Delegates have much to do in a very short period of time.
I had an important bill of mine come before the subcommittee that would make the premeditated murder of a cooperating witness an offense
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