McDonnell (R) submitted 17 amendments to the state’s current budget. The General Assembly acted on them last week.

The administration said that release of the proposed regulations, which would replace emergency rules that went into effect Dec. 31, has been pushed off until next week.

The front-runner, former senator and governor George Allen, is likely to take the most heat from his three distant rivals: Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), tea party activist Jamie Radtke and Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson.

Miller said she began thinking about it after supporters asked her to consider it, but that she won’t decide until she does some more research. “People have been pushing me for a while,’’ she said.

The City Council approved spending $65,000 on the initiative that offers sex education and birth control to teenagers.

Backers of the attorney general, running for governor next year, succeeded in winning a number of new spots on the state GOP’s governing board over the last few weeks.

In the ad, Romney says he will announce deficit reductions, end big government and stand up to China on trade on his first day in office. In an earlier ad, he said he would approve the Keystone pipeline, introduce tax cuts and start undoing the federal health care law.

The City of Falls Church has decided to suspend Friday’s planned auction of its water utility after the federal agency that supplies the city with water determined that it could not sell water to an investor-owned utility, the city manager said late Thursday.

He was 86 and had been in declining health for at least six months, said Del. Terry G. Kilgore (R-Scott), a family friend.

The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. in McLean, according to the White House.

Gov. Bob McDonnell, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, will appear with Walker at an event Tuesday, according to his office, though details have not been released.

Radtke, who is in an uphill battle for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, has begin airing ads attacking rival George Allen.

The tea party activist has been by far the most outspoken against Allen, trying to label him a big spender who did not challenge the status quo during a previous term in the U.S. Senate.

That’s either as it should be or a terrible shame, depending on who’s doing the talking in Richmond, where an issue affecting more than 70,000 Virginia children has not broken neatly along partisan lines.

President Obama will begin airing a pair of positive TV ads in swing states, including Virginia, this week.

The first ad, “Sacred Trust,” touts Obama’s commitment to helping veterans as he continues his effort to win over military families in a handful of important swing states. And yes, this ad mentions Osama bin Laden.