Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, bottom center, announced a plan to partner on a new sports stadium in Alexandria, but state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, top right, has stymied that plan. avenues for Virginia state lawmakers to approve a new sports arena for the Washington Capitals and Wizards. What’s left now is more like a dirt road.that they had reached a nonbinding agreement to move both professional sports teams to a new arena in Alexandria.
There were always three ways Youngkin could try to do get the legislature’s approval: Lawmakers could approve a bill starting in the House of Delegates or one originating in the State Senate. Or, the arena plan could have been folded into the state budget.Ultimately, all of those pathways went through Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee Chairwoman L. Louise Lucas , who managed to wield her role on that key committee — and sharp tongue on social media — to block the arena multiple times.
But because a bill approved by one chamber must then pass through the other side of the General Assembly, the legislation again had to make it by Lucas’s desk. That was strike twoThe third option on the table was folding the arena into the state budget. This was never as popular with state lawmakers because it meant any debate on the plan could get muddled in. That process begins with the money committees, so the power again fell to Lucas and her committee on the state Senate side.
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