McDonnell facing deadline to act on road funding bill

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell must decide by midnight Monday whether to sign, veto or amend legislation that would raise roughly $1 billion a year in new taxes and fees to pay for long-delayed road work in the state.

The transportation package is one of hundreds of bills on which McDonnell must act, including the budget, a voter ID bill and a two-year moratorium on drones flying in state airspace. But for a governor harboring national political ambitions and with an undefined legacy, the transportation package is the most important bill on his desk. And it’s one that his own attorney general, fellow Republican Ken Cuccinelli, is fighting to defeat.