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        • Del. Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington)
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        • Del. Marie March (R-Floyd)
        • Del. Danny Marshall (R-Danville)
        • Del. John McGuire (R-Glen Allen)
        • Del. Joe McNamara (R-Roanoke)
        • Del. Delores McQuinn (D-Richmond)
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        • Del. Israel O'Quinn (R-Bristol)
        • Del. Bobby Orrock (R-Thornburg)
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        • Del. Cia Price (D-Newport News)
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        • Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond)
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        • Sen. David Suetterlein (R-Salem)
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Committees

Senate

  • Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (35)
  • Commerce and Labor (63)
  • Education and Health (104)
  • Finance and Appropriations (224)
  • General Laws and Technology (73)
  • Judiciary (129)
  • Local Government (38)
  • Privileges and Elections (59)
  • Rehabilitation and Social Services (22)
  • Rules (40)
  • Transportation (31)

House

  • Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (83)
  • Appropriations (181)
  • Communications, Technology and Innovation (4)
  • Counties, Cities and Towns (79)
  • Courts of Justice (181)
  • Education (95)
  • Finance (85)
  • General Laws (138)
  • Health, Welfare and Institutions (115)
  • Labor and Commerce
  • Privileges and Elections (82)
  • Public Safety (52)
  • Rules (73)
  • Transportation (62)
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Explanation

The House of Delegates and the Senate can’t possibly consider every bill that’s introduced each year—there are just too many. So bills are assigned to the committees most appropriate to them, and those committees act as a filter, weeding out the bad bills and sending the good bills on to be considered by the entire body. (At least, that’s the theory.)

The House has 14 committees, and the Senate has 11.

Committees are where much of the real work of the General Assembly gets done. Committee meetings are where people can testify about bills, where deals are made, and legislators speak more freely than they tend to before their entire body. They’re held in rooms that are large enough that they’re not intimidating for regular folks to show up at, and the meetings tend to be simple enough that it’s not hard to follow what’s going on. You can testify at a committee meeting!

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