Senator Janet Howell (D-Reston)

Party Democratic Photo of Janet Howell
District 32: Fairfax County (Part) [map]
Took Office January 1992
Next Election November 2011
Committees Courts of Justice, Education and Health, Finance, Privileges and Elections (Chair), Rules
Website janethowell.com
Fundraising $86,995 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 65% of bills she copatroned were introduced by Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of her bills, 63% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that she also copatroned, 56% of them are Democrats.
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Matthews, Ms Suzann W Uncoded $25,000
Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Assoc Hospitals $7,500
Dominion Energy production & distribution $7,500
Virginia Health Care Assoc Nursing homes $5,000
Mvm Inc Uncoded $5,000
Oracle Computer software $4,000
Virginia Bankers Assoc Commercial banks & bank holding companies $3,872
Virginia Optometric Assoc Optometrists & ophthalmologists $3,500
Transurban Public works, industrial & commercial construction $3,000
Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Assoc Auto dealers, new & used $2,500

Data provided by The National Institute on Money in State Politics.

Recent Mentions on Blogs

www.fairfaxdemocrats.org: Passing of Connie Houston

June 28, 2009
It is with extreme sadness that I advise you that Connie Houston of Vienna passed away over the weekend. Connie?s death was sudden and completely unexpected, as she was enjoying good health and a very busy summer, and she and her husband Jim were eagerly awaiting the birth of their first grandchild. A visitation will be held on Thursday, July 2, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Money and King Funeral Home, 171 Maple Avenue W., in Vienna. A memorial service will be held on Friday, July 3, 11:00 a.m. at ...

Waldo Jaquith: The legislature?s most prolific copatrons.

June 10, 2009
The more time that I spend mapping the social relationships of legislators via their copatroning habits, the more fascinated that I am by this mechanism of exploring the General Assembly. It really is a powerful tool. (To see one of the ways I?m using it on Richmond Sunlight now, check out HB1721 , SB1436 , or HB2482 , where you can see a graph indicating the average partisan position of each bill?s cosponsors.) Here?s a less thoughtful usage of this data, but no less interesting: a listi...

An Inconvenient Woman: HPV-Vaccine, How We Got Here

May 16, 2009
Top HPV-Vaccine Researchers Join Those Advising Caution in HPV-Vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix  Immunization Dr. Diane Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the HPV vaccine Dr. Diane Harper was a lead researcher in the development of the HPV vaccine . Her HPV-vaccine trial papers were amongst the first I found when I started  researching Gardasil. In 2004 Dr. Harper was excited about the the possibilities for the HPV-vaccine. By March, 2007 she had become an out spoken, and ofte...

Articles: Urgent! Alicia's Law needs your calls! If you stretched the Virginia budget from one end of the state to the other, every mile

February 26, 2009
Urgent! Alicia's Law needs your calls! If you stretched the Virginia budget from one end of the state to the other, every mile would represent $144 million. You'd only have to walk 19 feet to fund Alicia's Law. Alicia's Law provides desperately-needed funding for investigators who fight child pornography and rescue children. But it doesn't look like the Virginia Senate is willing to support this work, even though child predators are being stopped every day and more and more children are being ...

Assembly Access: House GOP finishes off electoral reforms

February 17, 2009
Last month, the House Republican majority made short work of a number of initiatives aimed at easing voter access to the polls - for example, allowing early in-person voting and expanding absentee voting. They were swiftly killed (along with several redistricting reform bills) in a predawn subcommittee meeting that fell on the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. Today, the House GOP killed Senate versions of the same legislation. Sen. Janet Howell?s SB810 would have allowed registered ...
Recent Mentions in the Media

Staunton News Leader: Primary voters elect Deeds to face Bob McDonnell in the fall

June 10, 2009
State Sen. Janet Howell, D-Reston, credited her endorsement of Deeds because of his political courage and ability to do what is best for all residents of ...and more »

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