Women finally have a chance to make history in Virginia. They already have.
Take a look at the way power works today along gender lines in Virginia’s General Assembly. Now blink. Everything is about to change, astonishingly and for the better.
In the current, Republican-led legislature, women chair just two of 25 standing committees, one in the Senate and one in the House of Delegates. When Democrats take control of both houses in January, women will hold leadership positions almost everywhere you look, not just challenging the old boys’ club in Richmond but rendering it utterly obsolete. It’s about time.
In the House of Delegates, Democratic women will occupy the two top slots — speaker (Eileen Filler-Corn of Fairfax) and majority leader (Charniele L. Herring of Alexandria) — and chair at least three critical legislative panels, including the House Finance Committee, which exercises dominion over tax legislation. Its leader will be Del. Vivian E. Watts of Fairfax.
In the Senate, Sen. Richard L. Saslaw of Fairfax will be the majority leader, a position he has held before. But Sen. Mamie E. Locke of Hampton, who will be the Democratic Caucus chair, and Sen. Janet D. Howell of Fairfax, who will chair the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees both taxing and spending bills, will exercise much power. Democratic women will chair several other key Senate committees.
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