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		<title>Englin statement on McDonnell&#8217;s nondiscrimination memorandum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; Delegate  David Englin (D-45) issued the following statement today in response to  the memorandum Gov. Bob McDonnell issued yesterday addressing employment  nondiscrimination: 
 We have had much discussion on the House floor this week about whether  our great Commonwealth will be a place where workers are judged on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/11/englin-statement-on-mcdonnells-nondiscrimination-memorandum/</link>
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		<title>House Democrats keep up fight for nondiscrimination law to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Virginians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; For the third consecutive day on the floor of the House of Delegates, Virginia Democrats stood against the anti-gay efforts of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who issued a letter to Virginia&#8217;s public colleges and universities March 4 advising them to repeal nondiscrimination policies protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender faculty, staff, and students. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/10/house-democrats-keep-up-fight-for-nondiscrimination-law-to-protect-gay-lesbian-bisexual-and-transgender-virginians/</link>
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		<title>House Democrats defend Virginia colleges from anti-gay Attorney General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli pushed his anti-gay agenda front and center in the General Assembly this week with his March 4 letter to Virginia colleges and universities asking them to remove language dealing with sexual orientation from their nondiscrimination policies.  Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that the purpose of government is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/10/house-democrats-defend-virginia-colleges-from-anti-gay-attorney-general/</link>
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		<title>Englin inducted into Civil Air Patrol Legislative Squadron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond - The Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol welcomed Delegate David Englin (D-45) as a member of the Virginia Legislative Squadron at the State Capitol March 9.  Membership expresses Englin&#8217;s support of the all volunteer organization which provides search and rescue and disaster relief missions for the Commonwealth as well as operating a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/10/englin-inducted-into-civil-air-patrol-legislative-squadron/</link>
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		<title>General Assembly passes Englin bill to strengthen budget transparency and accountability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; The General Assembly passed legislation Monday sponsored by Delegate David Englin (D-45) to strengthen transparency and accountability in the budget process by improving the annual corporate income tax relief report produced by the Department of Taxation.  Englin is working closely with the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis, whose recent comprehensive report on tax [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/09/general-assembly-passes-englin-bill-to-strengthen-budget-transparency-and-accountability/</link>
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		<title>David urges House of Delegates to stand up to anti-gay Attorney General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s letter to Virginia&#8217;s public colleges and universities asking them to remove language dealing with sexual orientation from their nondiscrimination policies, David urged the General Assembly and Governor McDonnell to stand up to Cuccinelli&#8217;s anti-gay crusade.  In his remarks, he noted that there are still options available, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/08/david-urges-house-of-delegates-to-stand-up-to-anti-gay-attorney-general/</link>
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		<title>General Assembly passes Englin bill to help Alexandria recruit and retain quality public safety workforce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; The General Assembly passed legislation Thursday sponsored by Delegate David Englin (D-45) to give the Alexandria City Council the power to improve retirement benefits for its deputy sheriffs, fire marshals, emergency medical technicians, and other public safety workers.  House Bill 273 will empower the City of Alexandria to offer all of its public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/07/general-assembly-passes-englin-bill-to-help-alexandria-recruit-and-retain-quality-public-safety-workforce/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Bake Sale for the Budget&#8221; highlights ignored revenue options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Organizing Project held a &#8220;Bake Sale for the Budget&#8221; in front of the General Assembly Building in Richmond today to highlight the fact that the House budget makes no serious attempt to bring in new revenue to mitigate draconian cuts to public education, health care, and other core services.  David stopped by to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/04/bake-sale-for-the-budget-highlights-ignored-revenue-options/</link>
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		<title>Democrats oppose House budget rife with fatal flaws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I voted against the House version of the state budget, which the Republican majority wrote for the first time in many years with absolutely no input from Democratic legislators.  The fact that they shut out of the process us Democrats &#8212; including the Democrats who sit on the budget-writing Appropriations Committee &#8212; is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/03/democrats-oppose-house-budget-rife-with-fatal-flaws/</link>
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		<title>David speaks out against anti-Jewish, anti-gay hate group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday on the House floor, David spoke out against the anti-Jewish, anti-gay hate group that happened to be targeting the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond on the same day that David was scheduled to invite a rabbi to offer the invocation opening the daily floor session of the House.

The following is the text of David&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/03/2460/</link>
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		<title>Interfaith social justice advocates stand up for the vulnerable, urge support for Senate budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 250 members of Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement, or VOICE, rallied in Richmond today urging legislators to support the Senate budget, which protects vulnerable citizens to a far greater extent than the House budget.
&#8220;I&#8217;m honored to stand with VOICE to protect vulnerable citizens,&#8221; said David.  &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of the synagogues, churches, mosques, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/02/interfaith-social-justice-advocates-stand-up-for-the-vulnerable-urge-support-for-senate-budget/</link>
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		<title>Job-killing House budget especially bad for Alexandria, Arlington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few days, Governor McDonnell and the House Republican majority presented their budget proposals, and the news is worse than expected for our community.  Virginia is continually ranked Best State for Business and Best Managed State because we run an efficient operation with no fat to speak of, and we enjoy very low [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/24/job-killing-house-budget-especially-bad-for-alexandria-arlington/</link>
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		<title>Englin statement opposing elimination of Virginia Commission for the Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; Delegate David Englin (D-45) today issued the following statement in response to House Republican plans to cut $2.2 million from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in fiscal year 2011 and then eliminate the Commission entirely in 2012:
In a year where economic development &#8212; and especially job creation &#8212; has been a paramount [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/24/englin-statement-opposing-elimination-of-virginia-commission-for-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>David questions proposal to shift education money from poor students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday on the House floor, David highlighted one of his many concerns about the budget proposal announced Sunday by the House Republican majority, which makes massive cuts to public education.  Embedded in a lottery block grant proposal is a policy change to take money away from the poor and at-risk students the program is designed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/24/david-questions-proposal-to-shift-education-money-from-poor-students/</link>
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		<title>General Assembly passes Englin bill to protect children during public health emergencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; The General Assembly yesterday passed legislation sponsored by Delegate David Englin (D-45) to protect children during public health emergencies by ensuring they have equal access to life-saving vaccines.  House Bill 270 requires the Virginia Department of Health&#8217;s emergency vaccination plans to include procedures to ensure the prompt vaccination of all school-aged children, without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/23/general-assembly-passes-englin-bill-to-protect-children-during-public-health-emergencies/</link>
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		<title>David shares colleague&#8217;s speech highlighting human cost of budget choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor McDonnell released his proposed budget cuts this week, including $731 million in cuts to public education and $300 million in cuts to health care services for the poor.  He proposed cutting $6 million from homeless services and shutting out 28,566 poor children and pregnant women from access to health care.  David&#8217;s colleague, Delegate Charniele [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/19/david-shares-colleagues-speech-highlighting-human-cost-of-budget-choices/</link>
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		<title>Richmond Report: Englin bills move forward while House debates states&#8217; rights, guns, pollution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday was the deadline by which a bill must have passed the House of Delegates and crossed over to the Senate (or visa-versa) to remain alive.  The vast majority of bills that passed the House were bipartisan and without controversy, including a number of important economic development initiatives.  However, during several extended floor sessions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/17/richmond-report-englin-bills-move-forward-while-house-debates-states-rights-guns-pollution/</link>
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		<title>General Assembly clears path for Advanced Health Care Directives Registry launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; The General Assembly today passed House Bill 267, sponsored by Delegate David Englin (D-45), that will enable the Virginia Department of Health to launch a statewide Advanced Health Care Directives Registry in April.
Today&#8217;s bill begins the final phase of a two-year effort that started with 2008 legislation sponsored by Englin and Senator George [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/17/general-assembly-clears-path-for-advanced-health-care-directives-registry-launch/</link>
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		<title>Richmond Report: Snow emergency drives home need for transportation funding, while tax reform plan spurs discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to all of the state and local government employees, plow crews, public safety workers, and utilities crews for their Herculean efforts in response to the overwhelming snow emergency.  Our area has already received more than four times our usual annual snowfall, with more snow on the way.  In addition to the personal challenges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/10/richmond-report-snow-emergency-drives-home-need-for-transportation-funding-while-tax-reform-plan-spurs-discussion/</link>
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		<title>Englin announces end to prohibition on complimentary drinks at hotel manager&#8217;s receptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; Delegate David Englin (D-45) announced today that the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has reversed its prohibition on hotel manager&#8217;s receptions that include complimentary wine and beer for guests and their visitors. This is the result of Englin&#8217;s efforts with the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce on behalf of Alexandria hotels that have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/02/04/englin-announces-end-to-prohibition-on-complimentary-drinks-at-hotel-managers-receptions/</link>
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