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Statehouse One-Acts: Glenn’s Mojo Dojo Casa Arena Is Dead … Unless It’s Not

Statehouse One-Acts: Glenn’s Mojo Dojo Casa Arena Is Dead … Unless It’s Not

The actual important news is that the Virginia legislature has reached a budget agreement, but that's boring as hell

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In any given year, Virginia’s is among first legislative sessions to call it quits (but especially in odd-numbered years, when the sessions are even shorter).

  • New Mexico and Utah have already adjourned sine die for the year, and another seven will wrap in the next week or so. (Several adjourn in April, and most of the rest that aren’t full-time do so sometime in May.)

In even-numbered years, the Virginia General Assembly session is a little bit longer to accommodate the creation of the commonwealth’s two-year budget.

  • And if Virginia’s fiscal plan for the coming biennium weren’t agreed on by the legislature by this weekend, lawmakers would have to go into overtime to get that worked out.

But General Assembly just announced its finalized budget agreement, so everyone can start their sine die partying early.

… except Glenn Youngkin, but we’ll get to that.

  • There was a possibility that the Democratic-majority legislature might wait to finalize the budget until the governor acted on a whole slew …

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