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		<title>Woodrow Wilson Bridge project enters critical phase; Expect significant delays and seek alternate routes on Capital Beltway I-95/495</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alexandria &#8211; Starting on or about March 19, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project will embark on a new phase of construction that is anticipated to cause periodic significant delays for motorists traveling the Inner and Outer Loops of the Capital Beltway I-95/495, Telegraph Road and Eisenhower Valley area.  When completed, three new ramps will improve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/17/woodrow-wilson-bridge-project-enters-critical-phase-expect-significant-delays-and-seek-alternate-routes-on-capital-beltway-i-95495/</link>
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		<title>Englin opposes final budget balanced on the backs of children and the poor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 General Assembly session came to a close Sunday evening just one day later than scheduled, which is actually a record compared to the past several years.  At the eleventh hour, House and Senate budget negotiators presented us with a final budget that appears to be less bad than the budget House Republicans passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/17/englin-opposes-final-budget-balanced-on-the-backs-of-children-and-the-poor/</link>
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		<title>Englin statement on vote against state budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond &#8211; Delegate David Englin (D-45) issued the following statement regarding his vote this evening against the final version of Virginia&#8217;s two-year state budget:
Budgets are moral documents that express our values as a Commonwealth and determine whom we lift up and whom we leave out. While the final version of the budget is less bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/14/englin-statement-on-vote-against-state-budget/</link>
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		<title>Pressure from Democrats and pro-equality Virginians produces small but tangible victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is video of David&#8217;s remarks Wednesday, as he and fellow House Democrats kept up the pressure on Governor Bob McDonnell and House Republicans to stand up to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s anti-gay crusade against faculty, staff, and students at Virginia&#8217;s public colleges and universities.  McDonnell bowed to pressure from legislators and grassroots protesters late [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/13/david-urges-republicans-to-stand-with-democrats-against-anti-gay-bigotry/</link>
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		<title>David welcomes Israeli delegation to discuss Virginia-Israel economic ties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David joined other members of the House Jewish Caucus yesterday to welcome a diplomatic contingent of from the Embassy of Israel to discuss ongoing issues of importance to the relationship between Israel and Virginia.
Ralph Robbins, Executive Director of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, Galit Baram, Counselor for Public and Academic Affairs, and Ben Sack, Senior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/12/2512/</link>
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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>House Democrats attempt extraordinary &#8220;discharge motion&#8221; to advance employment nondiscrimination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[House Democrats today attempted an extraordinary &#8220;discharge motion&#8221; to bring a Senate employment nondiscrimination bill to the House floor.  The following is video of the effort: 
Virginia House of Delegates Rejects Anti-Discrimination Bill
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		<link>http://www.davidenglin.org/2010/03/09/house-democrats-attempt-extraordinary-discharge-motion-to-advance-employment-nondiscrimination/</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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