The Virginia House and Senate Democratic caucuses came together yesterday morning to discuss what the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus described in a press release as "Republican overreach."
"What's been going on for the past four weeks of the session is that Republicans are overreaching - the focus is on controversial extreme legislation and not [on jobs]," according to the press release. "So today we need to focus on what actually matters to Virginia."
Republican bills discussed included a repeal of Virginia's one-handgun-a-month law, as well as a bill which would require women to get an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion.
Del. Mark Sickles, D-Franconia, said people could use more lax Virginia gun laws to purchase firearms and transport them to other states.
"They are repealing [the handgun law] completely, which we think will increase the probability of massive gun sales in Virginia to be resold in the northeast," Sickles said. "That's the way it used to be: Trips were made to Virginia and stockpiles of guns were purchased here, and they ended up on the streets of New York."
Sickles expressed concern about voting along partisan lines on Crossover Day Feb. 14, when Senate bills will be sent to the House and House bills to the Senate.
Democrats no longer have control of the state Senate, Sickles said, "where a lot of these far-right social bills had gone to die in the last several years"
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