RICHMOND, VA – Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates William J. Howell (R-Stafford) announced committee appointments for the 2008 session of the Virginia General Assembly.

Delegate Clarke N. Hogan has been newly appointed to the influential Rules Committee that deals with matters relating to the rules, operations and practices of the House of Delegates.  The Rules committee has been newly empowered with the ability to remove a bill that may be tied up in a committee and bring it to the House floor.  In addition, he will continue his service on the Appropriations and Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committees.

September 16, 2007 - SOUTH BOSTON – Former Governor Mark R. Warner and Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra will visit the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center on Friday, September 21, to further discuss broadband deployment in Southside Virginia. The Governor and Secretary will be joined by superintendents of school divisions, local officials, broadband advocates, and some forty members of Governor Kaine’s Broadband Roundtable.

Delegate Clarke Hogan Appointed to Special Appropriations Sub-Committee to Study SOL On-Line Testing Problems

RICHMOND, VA June 15, 2007- Delegate Vince Callahan, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has announced that Delegate Clarke N. Hogan (R-Halifax) has been appointed to a special Appropriations sub-committee to assess the problems experienced by a number of school divisions during the most recent Standards Of Learning (SOL) on-line testing.