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U.S. Representative Scott Rigell | 2nd District of Virginia

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  • Virginia Jobs and Energy Act: Letters to the Editor
    May 20, 2013  - VJEA 2013 Letters to the Editor Monday, April 29th, 2013 LTE Richmond Times Dispatch The Obama administration’s decision to impose a moratorium on drilling off Virginia’s coast represented a hasty overreaction to the Deepwater Horizon disaster — a highly unfortunate, but fortunately rare, event. As ... More
  • Navy's Hiring Message Angers Booted Sailors
    May 16, 2013  - Tell Us The Navy’s “We’re hiring” message isn’t sitting well with one group: the sailors booted out eight months ago midway through their careers. Many of them are up in arms that the service now aims this summer to enlist 3,000 sailors — roughly the same number separated last year by the enlisted ... More
  • WTKR: Congressman asks Navy to give fired sailors their jobs back
    May 9, 2013  - Congressman Scott Rigell saw NewsChannel 3′s stories about the struggles of sailors fired by the Enlisted Retention Board and wanted to take action. “On a Thursday afternoon, we met up with him at 4 p.m., and had a round-table meeting with six other sailors,” said Tony Caudill, one of the ERB sailor... More
  • Richmond Times Dispatch: Legislation on Internet sales tax is big for Va.
    Apr 29, 2013  - The days of avoiding sales taxes when shopping online may be coming to an end. In a 63-30 vote Thursday, the U.S. Senate ended debate on the Marketplace Fairness Act and scheduled a final vote on the measure for May 6. The bill would require Internet retailers to collect state and local sales taxes... More
  • Richmond Times Dispatch: Today’s Top Opinion: Rigell is right
    Apr 29, 2013  - The Obama administration’s decision to impose a moratorium on drilling off Virginia’s coast represented a hasty overreaction to the Deepwater Horizon disaster — a highly unfortunate, but fortunately rare, event. As a matter of public policy, it made little sense. The administration appeared to reco... More
  • New York Times: Push to Require Online Sales Tax Divides the G.O.P.
    Apr 28, 2013  - WASHINGTON — Legislation that would force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes from their customers has put antitax and small-government activists like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the Heritage Foundation in an unusual position: they’re losing. For years, conservative Republi... More
  • The Hill: McCarthy vows Senate will 'definitely' return to gun control this year
    Apr 28, 2013  - The Senate is on track to vote again this year on tougher gun laws, according to one of the most outspoken gun control advocates in the Congress. Although legislation central to President Obama's effort to reduce gun violence was blocked this month in the upper chamber, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.... More
  • Virginian Pilot: Rigell renews push to allow drilling off Va. coast
    Apr 26, 2013  - By Bill Bartel The Virginian-Pilot © April 26, 2013 U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell is beginning a new push to force the federal government to open up Virginia's coastal waters to oil and natural gas drilling. Rigell expects to introduce a bill today that would require the Department of Interior to sell at ... More
  • Daily Press: Rigell introduces legislation to repeal Maritime food-aid cuts
    Apr 24, 2013  - VIRGINIA BEACH — U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, introduced legislation Wednesdas to repeal cuts to the amount of U.S. food aid required to be carried on U.S. flagged vessels. Along with U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., Rigell is seeking to reduce the cuts which reduced from 75 percent... More
  • Richmond Times Dispatch: Virginia’s delegation asks Hagel to avert furloughs
    Apr 21, 2013  - Markus Schmidt Richmond Times-Dispatch | Posted: Sunday, April 21, 2013 12:00 am In a bipartisan effort, most members of Virginia’s congressional delegation on Thursday sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, asking him to avert furloughs in the Defense Department’s civilian workforce, citi... More