{"id":42523,"date":"2022-04-13T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=42523"},"modified":"2022-04-13T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:23:44","slug":"republican-gov-glenn-youngkin-vetoes-26-democratic-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=42523","title":{"rendered":"Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoes 26 Democratic bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Politics<\/p>\n

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed 26 bills \u2014 including some that passed with broad bipartisan support \u2014 as he took action on more than 800 bills the divided legislature sent him during its regular session.<\/p>\n

None of the vetoed bills were sponsored by Republicans, a point Democrats quickly seized on, criticizing the first-term governor as excessively partisan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not clear to me why the governor thinks that he\u2019s got the monopoly of what\u2019s right for Virginia when these bills have already been vetted by bipartisan majorities,\u201d said Democratic Sen. Scott Surovell, who sponsored two bills Youngkin vetoed.<\/p>\n

Youngkin\u2019s veto total was higher than any other governor in his first year in office since Republican Jim Gilmore, who had 37 in 1998, according to an accounting<\/a> by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who preceded Youngkin, was close with 20.<\/p>\n

Democratic Sen. Adam Ebbin, who sponsored nine of the vetoed bills, said he sees those vetoes as retaliation against him for leading a Democratic charge to block\u00a0the nomination of<\/a> former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler to be Youngkin\u2019s secretary of natural and historic resources.<\/p>\n

The General Assembly will have a chance to override the vetoes when it reconvenes later this month. Doing so would take a 2\/3 vote in both chambers.<\/p>\n

The vetoed measures span a wide range of policy areas. A few of the highlights include:<\/p>\n

\u2014 A bill that would have prohibited high school student athletes from receiving compensation in exchange for the use of their name, image, or likeness.<\/p>\n

\u2014 A bill that would have prohibited heavy truck operators from using cruise control or compression-release engine breaks while driving in active snow, sleet or freezing rain. The measure was aimed at preventing a repeat of the snowy traffic logjams on Interstate 95 in January. Youngkin said the bill would impose burdens on the trucking industry and interstate transportation without any demonstrable benefit.<\/p>\n

\u2014 A measure that would set a three-year statute of limitations on the collection of medical debt. In his veto statement, Youngkin said he was committed to reducing the burden of medical debt but thought the legislation would \u201cinadvertently\u201d capture other forms of debt.<\/p>\n

\u2014 A measure that would have prohibited insurers from including a surcharge on the insurance premiums of tobacco users. \u201cRequiring non-tobacco users to cover the increased healthcare costs associated with tobacco use is not a policy I can support,\u201d Youngkin said.<\/p>\n

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