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increase is needed in order to pile more money on the almost $5 billion in the pipeline for Commonwealth roads, highways and mass transit. In the Senate, only our Senator Mark Obenshain, and a small band of his fiscally conservative colleagues, objected to continually increasing the annual raid on the pockets and pocketbooks of Virginia’s citizens.
In the short time I have been your representative in Richmond I have learned that there is little or no oversight over the Commonwealth bureaucracy; this, because in the short time the legislature normally meets each year there is no time for anything other than the legislative process. There is little time for hearings to attempt to determine which programs are working and those that are not. Further, our government does not practice “zero based budgeting”, which would
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