It is my understanding that my HB 66 to exempt Virginia manufacturers of incandescent light bulbs from the Federal ban on manufacture and sale of such light bulbs in the Commonwealth of Virginia will be heard in the Commerce & Labor Subcommittee #2 on Thursday, January 26, 2012, immediately upon adjournment of the full Commerce & Labor  Committee which meets 1/2 hour after the adjournment of the House (which will likely be around 1:30) in House Room D of the General Assembly building.  If you are interested in coming to the subcommittee meeting to support the bill the meeting will likely start around 2:30 or 3:00 and I would be glad to have your support.

Even if you cannot make the meeting please contact the members of the Commerce & Labor Subcommittee #2 (see below) and request their support of this legislation and please forward to friends and family who reside in the districts of the subcommittee members.

Thank you so much for your support!

Commerce & Labor Subcommittee #2

Chairman Tim Hugo                804-698-1040                delthugo@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Harry Purkey        804-698-1082                delhpurkey@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Tom Rust                804-698-1086                deltrust@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Danny Marshall        804-698-1014             deldmarshall@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Ben Cline                804-698-1024                delbcline@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Jackson Miller        804-698-1050               deljmiller@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Manoli Loupassi        804-698-1068            delmloupassi@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Barbara Comstock        804-698-1034        delbcomstock@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Joe Johnson                804-698-1004         deljjohnson@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Kenny Alexander        804-698-1089      delkalexander@house.virginia.gov

Delegate Jennifer McClellan        804-698-1071      deljmcclellan@house.virginia.gov

Louisiana v. Bryson et al
MARSHALL JOINS U.S. SUPREME COURT BRIEF ALLEGING MISUSE OF CENSUS
Alleges Obama Administration Is Violating Constitution, Laws in Counting Illegal Aliens

Del. Bob Marshall (R, 13th) has joined in a “friend of the court” brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Louisiana’s effort to file a “fast track” lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration’s decision to count millions of illegal aliens in the 2010 national census.

Louisiana state officials contend that their state unconstitutionally and unlawfully lost a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because data from the 2010 Census was used that includes non-resident immigrants living illegally in the United States.

“This case strikes at the very heart of the representative government we Americans hold dear,” Marshall said. “Our Constitution and our laws don’t grant equal representation to those who come here illegally and flagrantly violate that same Constitution and those same laws.”

Louisiana officials argue that counting illegal aliens in the census favors states with high numbers of undocumented immigrants living illegally within their borders, thus shifting political power by skewing population-based apportionment of the House’s 435 seats among the 50 states.

Census data also is the basis for apportioning congressional, legislative and local voting districts within states, as well as distributing federal grants to states and localities, and allocating states’ votes for president in the Electoral College, which will decide whether Obama wins another White House term in the Nov. 6 general election.

Technically, Louisiana officials are invoking a provision in the Constitution allowing them to bypass lower federal courts to file the lawsuit directly with the Supreme Court because of time constraints regarding this year’s fast-approaching congressional primary and general elections.

Listed with Marshall in the Supreme Court brief are 12 non-profit social welfare and educational organizations and foundations; state legislators from Oklahoma, Maryland, Washington State and Wyoming; and Montana candidates for governor and lieutenant governor.

The brief was filed Friday [Jan. 13] by Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson of a Vienna, Va., law firm specializing in constitutional law.  Titus was founding dean of Regent University’s School of Law in Virginia Beach. Olson is a former chairman of the Fairfax County Republican Committee.

Defendants in the lawsuit are U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson, U.S. Census Director Robert Groves, and House Clerk Karen Lehman Haas.

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Delegate Bob Marshall’s contact information:

• Mobile telephone – (703) 853-4213
• Capitol telephone – (804) 698-1013 (during General Assembly sessions)
• E-mail addresses – delegatebob@gmail.com and bob@delegatebob.com
• www.delegatebob.com
• www.youtube.com/user/delegatebobmarshall
• www.twitter.com/RobertGMarshall
• www.facebook.com/delegatebob

Del. Bob Marshall tonight (Wednesday, Dec. 7) accused Tim Kaine, the Democrats’ presumptive 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate, of mounting a “skewed attack on my personhood bill” in tonight’s early-bird Senate debate in Richmond.

“After seeing Tim Kaine’s skewed attack on my personhood bill (HB1), it is obvious he is very confused,” Marshall (R., 13th District) said.

“First of all, we tell third graders in Virginia’s public schools that human life begins at fertilization or conception.  Scientists have definitively known when human life begins since at least the 1830’s. Why not Tim Kaine?

“Tim Kaine, a Harvard-educated attorney, claims that my personhood bill, HB 1, will outlaw birth control. The U.S. Supreme Court disagrees with Tim Kaine, because it upheld almost identical language in a Missouri statute from the 1980’s, 25 years ago, in the Webster v. Missouri case.

“None of the parade of horribles predicted today by Tim Kaine occurred when abortion was illegal, such as homicide prosecutions for women who abort their children or making miscarriages manslaughter.  My measure passed the House of Delegates earlier this year, 62-36. Virginia’s entire press corps apparently slept through the legal earthquake Tim Kaine predicted would follow passage of my bill most likely because his claims are not true.

“My personhood bill creates a civil cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child.  This cause of action already exists in the majority of states and is a natural complement to Virginia’s fetal homicide law. “Does Tim Kaine object to providing a legal remedy for parents whose beloved unborn baby is killed by the negligent or criminal act of a third party?  Does anyone other than Tim Kaine really think that is a bad idea?

“Tim Kaine wants to serve in the US Senate.  But if he refuses to understand the meaning of a simple seven line bill, what would he do in Washington as a Senator with bills longer than a single page?  We already have enough people in Washington who vote on bills without ever reading them.”
Marshall’s HB1, prefiled for the Virginia General Assembly’s 2012 session and co-patroned by State Sen. Charles Colgan (D., 29th District), is summarized by the General Assembly’s Legislative Information Service as follows:

“Rights of unborn children. Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and constitutions of Virginia and the United States, precedents of the United States Supreme Court, and provisions to the contrary in the statutes of the Commonwealth.”

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I would also like to thank my wife,  family and all of the other hard-working folks who organized precincts, went door-to-door, made phone calls and came out to work the polls yesterday.  I couldn’t have done it without you!

The Town of Haymarket Candidates Forum will be, Wednesday, October 19, 2011, at the Haymarket Town Hall located at 15000 Washington Street, Suite 100, Haymarket, VA beginning at 7:00 PM.

The Manassas Park Candidates Forum will be, Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at the Manassas Park Community Center located at 99 Adams St., Manassas Park, VA beginning at 7:00 PM.

Thanks.

- Bob