Drug testing for welfare users passes legislative hurdle in Virginia

By Steve Contorno
Published January 29, 2013 5:00am ET
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Drug testing for welfare users passes legislative hurdle in Virginia
Urine drug test samples. (AP photo)

A revived push from Virginia Republicans to drug test welfare recipients passed a key hurdle Tuesday in the Senate even as opponents criticized the effort as an attack on the state’s poor.

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