House of Delegates

noun

1. the lower house of the General Assembly in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.

Example Sentences

It recently surfaced that in 2022 he fantasized in texts about putting “two bullets to the head” of the GOP then-speaker of the House of Delegates and hoped that the lawmaker’s children “die in their mother’s arms.”

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The unicorn’s husband, Brandon Givens, a raccoon and a candidate for 11th District House of Delegates in Virginia, said he and his wife had witnessed authoritarianism in Kazakhstan as teachers there.

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But overcooked is the narrative, perpetuated daily in the press, that Ms. Sears is “unhinged,” as Don Scott, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, told reporters in the spin room after the debate.

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In 2023, the American Medical Association refused to debate a resolution calling for a ceasefire, while in June of this year dozens of health care professionals and students protested the AMA’s House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, where a compromise resolution calling generally for peace in Israel and Palestine ultimately won over resolutions that would have called explicitly for a ceasefire, condemned collective punishment tactics such as restricting access to food, water or health care, and opposed U.S. funding to entities that commit war crimes.

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Bailey and Margaret Franklin serve on the county’s Board of Supervisors and Briana Sewell serves in the House of Delegates.

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