As U.S. House debate ensued Sunday before the critical vote on health care, the differences were stark in the Virginia legislation.

As 6th District Rep. Bob Goodlatte sees it, health insurance reform is necessary but not the way it is proposed in the legislation before Congress.

South of the 2,000-mile stretch where walls stand, some physical, others metaphysical, Rigoberto Romero waits in Ciudad Juarez, a roiling metropolis of 1.5 million people just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. As shots ring out in Juarez and drug cartels war for lucrative trade routes into the United States, Romero longs for an elusive payoff for doing the right thing.

By obeying law, couple mired in 10-month immigration maze

STAUNTON — The new Western State Hospital will provide comprehensive mental health care in the “least restrictive setting,” Gov. Timothy Kaine said Tuesday at a groundbreaking for the $125 million facility.

STAUNTON – Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte has joined Virginia U.S. Sen. Jim Webb in criticizing the Obama administration’s decision to try 9/11 terrorists in U.S. courts.

“They should be put before a military tribunal not in our civil criminal courts in the United States,’’ said Goodlatte, R-Va., following Saturday’s Veterans Day Parade in Staunton.

Goodlatte said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accomplices in the 9/11 attacks in New York are “terrorists who are engaging in a militaristic type behavior.”

VERONA – The barbecue tasted good at Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s Verona picnic Saturday for statewide Republican and area House of Delegates candidates because the latest polls have all three members of the statewide ticket with healthy leads over their Democratic opponents.

After months of campaigning, statewide races round into the home stretch with the official launch of campaign season in Buena Vista.

Goodlatte town hall flooded by sea of hands

Bob Goodlatte is joining the town hall parade with a noticeable caveat.

The 6th District representative said Wednesday that he’ll hold a series of meetings across his district on health care. The difference between him and Democrats pilloried at the similar events across the country: Goodlatte also bristles at so-called Obamacare.

Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte has crusaded for more frugal federal spending for years, but on Monday the Valley congressman’s concern took on added urgency.

A federal food safety bill piles more burdens on fruit and vegetable farmers but stops short of delivering the wallop initially feared, lawmakers and agriculture experts say.

The 1,500-page climate change bill that has passed the House of Representatives and is awaiting its day in the Senate promises to leave less change in the pockets of the public, according to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, and industry experts.

STAUNTON — Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte received a mixed report when visiting a Shenandoah Valley car dealership Friday.

Incumbent 6th District Rep. Bob Goodlatte won a ninth term Tuesday by sweeping past Democratic challenger Sam Rasoul.