Senate Majority Leader Harry. M Reid is preparing the debate on a series of proposed bills about gun violence. Reid says these debates will start after easter break. He claims that one of the most controversial proposal backed by President Obama, the ban of a variety of different assault weapons, is not holding up well in the Senate. Final passage of this proposal would need 60 votes and Reid claims, "using the most optimistic numbers, has less than 40 votes. That's not 60." They claim to debate about three other proposed bills. One about making gun trafficking a federal crime, the second about expanding a Justice Department grant program that provides security to schools and the third to expand gun background checks. Reid claims that he is debating whether or not to have each of these bills separate or include them in a package. He says we will most likely have each bill go through the individual voting process, and if each one passes, he will include them all in a package. A bill proposal that aims to limit the size of ammunition clips was merged with the proposal to ban a number of assault weapons, originally introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein claims to be disappointed about the direction her proposed bill is coming along in the senate and even claims that "The enemies on this are very powerful, i've known that all my life." referring to the NRA.

Governor Bob McDonnell talked to Virginia's delegation to congress due to federal spending cuts and money needed for transportation. Governor Bob McDonnell's legislation calls for federal funding of new highways. Governor McDonnell also talked about the rights of the state government to collect taxes of out-of-state and catalog sales, in order to provide some funding for the transportation legislation imposed by the governor. He also asked about the rights to off-shore oil and gas drilling, as well as talk about federal waivers to put into effect Medicaid reforms imposed to save money before he expands the