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Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, who represents Virginia’s fourth congressional district, is a veteran of Virginia politics. With Donald Trump entering his second term in office, Rep. McClellan and her colleagues have a political fight on their hands against MAGA Republicans who want to end the civil service, gut Social Security and move federal employees out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
When I was 7 years old, I wrote President Jimmy Carter a letter. He was the first president I could remember, and whenever I saw him on the news, he seemed very kind. So, I invited him to dinner at our home in Matoaca, Virginia, confident that he would say yes. I just knew he would come.
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan is working to ensure that every Veteran in the 4th District enjoys a heartfelt Valentine’s Day.
This year, McClellan introduced the 2025 Valentines for Veterans initiative, aimed at creating and delivering Valentine’s Day cards to veterans living in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District.
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.