But don't expect a session with a lot of earth-shattering legislation during an election year, says Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington. "I tend to think this is going to be the year of the cautious caucus," he says. "The lawmakers who don't want to make too much in the way of big changes in this short session right before an election year particularly when you also add in the fact that they're also going to be running in districts that haven't even been designed yet."
Stephen J. Farnsworth, Ph.D.
Political Science professor, focusing on the mass media, the presidency and Virginia politics
