The following are articles from newspapers, blogs, and other news sources throughout the Commonwealth and the country featuring members of the Virginia Senate Republican Caucus.
- Senator Tommy Norment
- State Legislators Talk Budget With WJCC School Board – Williamsburg Yorktown Daily - Stretching across one side of a classroom in D.J. Montague Elementary School is a display of colored cards.
- Local legislators head back to school at D.J. Montague Elementary – The Daily Press - Williamsburg and James City County's state legislators headed back to school on Tuesday to take part in a statewide initiative to encourage elected officials to visit at least one school in their district this month.
- Senator Ralph Smith
- Republican lawyer Habeeb to run for Griffith's House seat – The Washington Post - Greg Habeeb, a Salem lawyer and former Salem Republican chairman, announced Monday that he will run to replace Del. Morgan Griffith, who was elected to Congress last week.
- Senator Jill Vogel
- VA Sen. Vogel Answers Tough Questions From Clarke County – Your4State.com - Tough questions were asked and solutions were hard to come by as the Clarke County Board of Supervisors sat face-to-face with Virginia state Senator Jill Vogel and Delegate Joe May.
- Clarke County Board of Supervisors Meet with Legislators – TV3Winchester.com - When the Virginia General Assembly heads back to Richmond legislators will face some of the same budgetary challenges that were there when they left the state capitol.
- Confused voters narrowly approve Virginia rainy day amendment – WatchDog.org - Voter confusion may have narrowed the margin of approval for an increase in Virginia’s rainy day fund that was supported unanimously by legislators.
- Senator John Watkins
- Budget shortfall increases for CCPS—Chesterfield Observer - Projected school funding just shrunk an additional $7 million to $15 million for FY12 (starting July 1, 2011) for Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS).
- Bonuses to be performance based – Chesterfield Observer - County employees may get a 3 percent bonus – but not all of them. Supervisors will discuss at next week’s board meeting giving the one-time bonuses based on merit to employees with at least one year of service.