General Assembly 2025

According to state data, cattle is Virginia’s second largest agriculture industry, raking in over a half-billion dollars a year.

“I think it would be a travesty to disenfranchise those who are fighting for our freedom and our constitution,” Delegate Cia Price said.

Virginia’s bottom line and the speeding-up race to November’s election are making headlines.Radio IQ politics analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

"We thought we were leading America. But given what's going on now, it looks like we're on the wrong side of the trend,” Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell told Radio IQ.

A recent Harvard report looked at healthcare provided to 22 million minors; only a tiny fraction had received gender affirming surgeries.

“Politics comes at you fast, so if you’re making election law changes based on short-term interests, you might end up screwing yourself,” Senator Schuyler VanValkenburg told Radio IQ.

“What we’re seeing is economic factors around competitiveness that are putting us at a disadvantage,” Martin Johnson with Virginia Realtors said after a meeting of the Virginia Housing Commission.

Members of the General Assembly are clearing their calendars for a potential special session the second week of September.

About two-thirds of the over 90 Virginia school divisions that responded to the survey did not remove any books from their school libraries.

Governor Glenn Youngkin started pushing cellphone-free schools years ago, but only after an effort was approved by Democrats in the legislature earlier this year did it become a reality.