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WASHINGTON, DC – Members of Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott's District Office Staff will hold satellite office hours to assist constituents living in Surry County on December 10th, Charles City County on December 11th, Prince George on December 12th, and Petersburg on December 17th at the following locations:

RICHMOND, VA – Congressmen Bobby Scott (VA-3) and Eric Cantor (VA-7) today joined students from St. Christopher's School to volunteer at FeedMore's Central Virginia Food Bank. The Congressmen helped prepare weekend backpacks for children who do not have reliable access to nutritional meals other than those provided at school. This is part of an ongoing #ServiceRVA effort to encourage more people to give back to the community.

RICHMOND, VA – Congressmen Bobby Scott (VA-3) and Eric Cantor (VA-7) today joined students from St. Christopher's School to volunteer at FeedMore's Central Virginia Food Bank. The Congressmen helped prepare weekend backpacks for children who do not have reliable access to nutritional meals other than those provided at school. This is part of an ongoing #ServiceRVA effort to encourage more people to give back to the community.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Dick Durbin, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with Senator Mazie Hirono and Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Bobby Scott, Marcia Fudge, and Luis Gutiérrez, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that the Department of Justice collect additional information on "stand your ground" laws to fully document their disparate racial impacts in communities across the country.

WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, November 21, 2013, Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), co-chair of the U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus, co-hosted a briefing featuring the Philippines Ambassador to the United States, Jose L. Cuisia, Jr., on the ongoing relief efforts in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. The briefing was co-hosted by the U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.

WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, November 21, 2013, Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), co-chair of the U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus, co-hosted a briefing featuring the Philippines Ambassador to the United States, Jose L. Cuisia, Jr., on the ongoing relief efforts in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. The briefing was co-hosted by the U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus, co-chaired by Congressman Scott and Congressman Darrell Issa, and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, chaired by Congresswoman Judy Chu.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations on the House Judiciary Committee, commended the Federal Communications Commission's denial yesterday of petitions urging the FCC to stay the Commission's order reducing high long-distance calling rates paid by prisoners and their families.