Fairfax largely rebuffed in legislature
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Feb 14, 2008 3:00 AM (4 hrs ago) by William C. Flook, The Examiner
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Fairfax County has seen much of its proposed legislation die quietly in Richmond this year, despite an increasingly Democratic General Assembly thought to be more friendly to like-minded Northern Virginia governments.
House or Senate committees have effectively killed bills that would ban firearms in public buildings, study pollutants linked to transgender fish on the Potomac River, prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation, and allow police to pull over teen drivers who use cell phones.