New Website Allows Residents to See How McLean Legislators Voted on Important State Bills
Finally citizens can track House of Delegates votes by legislators' name
This year for the first time Virginia citizens can actually easily track how their representatives in the House of Delegates voted on every bill. Want to find out how the three delegates representing McLean voted on bills requiring women who want an abortion to have an ultrasound, allowing unlimited handgun purchases, giving counties the right to decide when to open schools? A resolution sponsored by Del. Mark Keam, a Democrat, who represents Vienna and a sliver of McLean, and Del. Jim LeMunyon, a Republican, who represents Chantilly and Centreville, passed in 2011 requiring that the General Assembly’s website provide this year an easy way for the public to look up votes by a delegate’s name. "This is a significant change because until …
Gerrie Smith
9:02 pm on Monday, March 19, 2012
The Hon. Dennis Husch, Former Vice Mayor of the Town of Herndon, posted all his votes on the Internet. Sadly, we failed to elect him as our Dranesville supervisor in 2011. more ›