Dear Friends of Liberty,
Del. Bob Marshall's HB10, the Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act, passed on the House floor yesterday with a bi-partisan vote of 72 - 26 and will now move to the Senate. The vote went like this:
YEAS--Abbitt, Albo, Anderson, Armstrong, Athey, Barlow, Bell, Richard P., Bell, Robert B., Byron, Carrico, Cleaveland, Cline, Cole, Comstock, Cosgrove, Cox, J.A., Cox, M.K., Crockett-Stark, Dance, Edmunds, Garrett, Gear, Gilbert, Greason, Griffith, Howell, A.T., Hugo, Iaquinto, Ingram, Janis, Joannou, Johnson, Jones, Kilgore, Knight, Landes, LeMunyon, Lewis, Lingamfelter, Lohr, Loupassi, Marshall, D.W., Marshall, R.G., Massie, May, Merricks, Miller, J.H., Miller, P.J., Morefield, Morgan, Nixon, Nutter, O'Bannon, Oder, Orrock, Peace, Phillips, Pogge, Poindexter, Purkey, Putney, Rust, Scott, E.T., Sherwood, Shuler, Stolle, Tata, Villanueva, Ward, Ware, R.L., Wright, Mr. Speaker--72.
NAYS--Abbott, Alexander, BaCote, Brink, Bulova, Carr, Ebbin, Englin, Herring, Hope, James, Keam, Kory, McClellan, McQuinn, Plum, Pollard, Scott, J.M., Sickles, Spruill, Surovell, Torian, Toscano, Tyler, Ware, O., Watts--26.
ABSTENTIONS--0.
NOT VOTING--Morrissey--1.
The Senate version of the healthcare bill had it's second reading on the House floor with debate yesterday with the third and final reading and vote today. You can watch streaming video of the vote today at noon here.
The Virginia Firearms Freedom Act passed victoriously out of the Militia, Police & Public Safety Committee this morning with a bi-partisan vote of 17 - 2. Delegates Scott and Keam were the two who voted "nay". HB69 will now move to the House floor for a vote next week.
It goes to show that, unlike the Washington Empire, lawmakers in Virginia understand that it is their constituents who harness the power to elect them to office and know they must listen.
Congratulations, Patriots, for a job well done!
Yours in liberty,
Donna Holt
Ride Free, Ride Often
Bill C.
"When the people fear the government you have tyranny ... when the government fears the people you have liberty." President Thomas Jefferson