Now the Transportation Abomination will be considered by the House and Senate conferees. Reconciling the House and Senate bills will be up to the following individuals:
House of Delegates:
Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights)
Morgan Griffin (R- Salem)
Algie Howell, Jr. (D-Norfolk)
Tim Hugo (R- Fairfax)
Chris Jones (R- Suffolk)
Terry Kilgore (R-Scott)
Senate:
Thomas Norment (R- James City)
Philip Puckett (D-Russell)
Ken Stolle (R- Virginia Beach)
Frank Wagner (R-Virginia Beach)
Martin Williams (R-Newport News)
This comes from the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance:
Given that four of five Senate Conferees and all six House members voted for the House version, it’s probably fair to say odds favor the House version. Yet the fact that the full Senate rejected the House version means work remains to be done if a bill is to pass this year.
Also of note is the fact that architects of the Hampton Roads regional package are on the panel. Northern Virginia was not accorded similar representation.
And this from Garren Shipley at the NV Daily: Sen. Thomas Norment, R-Williamsburg, an architect of the compromise, is still predicting that the Senate could still support the GOP package.
Supporting Chichester’s version of the bill is just another way of saying “let me poke my finger in your eye one more time” to the House of Delegates, Norment said. “This vote is easy, man. This is pancakes here. … Voting on the committee report will be the real gut check — because that will be the absolute, last chance to do anything for transportation for the year. When it’s the conference committee or nothing, that’s when you really need to search your souls.
