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The latest news from Richmond's once-beleaguered regional mail center is that delivery times are getting back to the national average — but the latest advice if you're voting by mail is to do it sooner rather than later, Virginia's two U.S. senators and two of its congresswomen said.
“The Affordable Care Act saved my life,” said Laura Packard, a Virginia resident, Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor and health advocate who joined other advocates and state and federal Democratic lawmakers on Monday as part of a national bus tour highlighting Democrat-led efforts to expand health care access.
In mid-July, as listeria infection cases multiplied across the United States, Maryland health officials who track foodborne illnesses grew increasingly alarmed. The outbreak was spreading at a much more rapid rate than normal for listeria.
U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan has announced the launch of the 2024 Veteran of the Year Program to honor veterans living in Virginia's Fourth Congressional District, which she represents and which includes Eastern Henrico.
Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) defended Democrats’ opposition to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, calling it a “modern poll tax” in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”
Two years ago, the late Lois Dedeaux McClellan voted for her daughter Jennifer to become the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress, but there had been a period in her 91 years of life when the law prevented her from voting at all.
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) brought up her support for tighter gun laws at a Harris-Walz campaign event in Chesterfield County the day after a shooting at a high school in Georgia that left two students and two staff members dead.
During the event, which took place at the Ettrick Deli near Virginia State University in Chesterfield County, McClellan said that, while Virginia has taken significant steps to regulate who can buy guns, she wants to see more done on the federal level.
PETERSBURG, Va. -- A Virginia congresswoman is adding her voice to those concerned about conditions and ongoing issues at the Carriage House Apartments in Petersburg.
"We thought that these issues were going to be addressed. They still haven't been addressed. So, we're looking at additional oversight activities," said Rep. Jennifer McClellan
Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-4th, proposes to go where no member of Congress has gone before with legislation to establish standards for celestial time, beginning with the moon, as the U.S. renews its commitment to lunar exploration.
McClellan has introduced the “Celestial Time Standardization Act,” which would put into law a new initiative by President Joe Biden to create standards to synchronize the differences between time on Earth and other planetary bodies.
PETERSBURG – If Rep. Jennifer McClellan has her way, the downtown Petersburg post office will be named in memory of the first Black person to serve Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.
McClellan, D-4th, said Friday she will introduce House Resolution 7385 Monday to put John Mercer Langston’s name on the 89-year-old building at 29 Franklin St. She will announce the resolution at a 10 a.m. ceremony Monday at Virginia State University’s Langston Hall.