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West Virginia House passed six bills Tuesday, including human smuggling bill

The West Virginia House of Delegates was back to work Tuesday after an abbreviated floor session Monday due to Winter Storm ...
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Senate Education Committee begins discussion of Hancock schools funding bill

While the West Virginia House of Delegates took quick action last week on two bills addressing the financial crisis in ...
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Long-time education champion Joe Ellington becomes Deputy Speaker of West Virginia House

Rep. Joe Ellington has been elevated to Deputy Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates, a position he will share with ...
WV MetroNews

Delegate Joe Ellington moves to deputy speaker; Delegate Joe Statler steps in as education chairman

At the end of a House Education Committee today, Chairman Joe Ellington announced a new chairman would be taking over, ...

West Virginia House debates, passes human smuggling bill

After a lively back-and-forth, West Virginia’s Human Trafficking and Smuggling bill concluded its time in the House.  HB 4433 ...
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Why is there a lack of women in the West Virginia legislature?

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) — West Virginia has a population total of right around 1.7 million people. More than half of those people are women. Yet out of all of our 134 legislative seats, only 16 are ...