Posted on 06/23/2014 4:41:12 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The House of Delegates sustained five budget vetoes of Gov. Terry McAuliffe, while refusing to consider vetoes related to funding for expansion of Medicaid and filling of judgeships as constitutionally invalid.
The House overrode one gubernatorial veto on a 70-27 vote, preventing McAuliffe from stripping funding for a new advisory council on conflicts of interest and ethics.
House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, ruled that McAuliffe could not veto amendments made to the budget on June 12 that stripped sum-sufficient funding for Medicaid expansion and inserted new language that requires the General Assembly to approve any appropriation of federal funding to pay for expanded health coverage of uninsured Virginians under the Affordable Care Act.
Howell said the language vetoed did not constitute a budget item, with a specific sum of money, and sought to eliminate conditions and restrictions adopted by the legislature without vetoing the entire budget. He said the veto was out of order, which prevents it from being considered by the Senate.
On judgeships, the speaker said the $20 million in supplemental funding for new and vacant judgeships could not be separated from other portions of the budget that finance the entire judiciary, making that veto also out of order.
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Good, shut it down, then everybody in Virginia is better off.
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I still can’t believe this idiot is governor.
That will make a good campaign commercial - Democrats vote against an ethics commission :)
Fricken Carpetbagger, neither can I ... but he might be a lame duck with 3.5 years to go after tonight ...
Senate is in recess but expected back any minute to consider the House amended Budget.
LeMunyon said the Reps anticipated the amendments, which is why they convened the GA on Monday.
I hear people say that, and I hope they are right, but I believe if they send back an amended Budget to McAweful, he can veto it
I hope the VA House Republicans make this sleazebag’s time in Richmond absolutely miserable. Be careful what you wish for, Terry, you may get it.
Neither can I. It's like a sick joke that isn't funny. I can't look at his face nor listen to his voice when he shows up on my local news.
The corrupt piece of garbage has taken a page out of Barry's playbook...he's trying to rule like a king.
Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Donald McEachin said Howell's arguments "were not well reasoned." "If I'm the governor, I tell the (state) comptroller to withhold any money for the judges, and I proceed on Medicaid," McEachin said, as he headed into a closed door meeting with fellow Senate Democrats.
I still can’t believe the State GOP preferred this idiot over Ken Cucinelli.
“Well reasoned” = agreeing with a corrupt Marxist tyrant.
RINOs love Democrats (just not enough to formally switch parties, it’s too much fun and productive destroying the GOP from within than from without).
McAuliffe is a marxist thug. He’ll just have the Republicans shot and then call for more gun control.
Virginians, you leftist/liberal/undereducated pond scum. Thanks for giving us this political equivalent of syphillis.
Excellent news. A Republican Speaker with a spine. McAuliffe tried Obama tactics and got shut down.
Obama Jr. must be livid he can’t execuscrew Virginia like Obama is the rest of the U.S.
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