Del. Robert Brink, D-Arlington, notably introduced Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plan to privatize the retail side of Virginia’s state-run liquor stores in the Virginia House of Delegates. But the bill has not yet received a hearing — which Brink readily pointed out on the House floor Wednesday.

“I wake up in the morning filled with hope that today will be the day that my bill gets a hearing,” he said. “I walk into the General Assembly Building and my friends in the lobby – I think they call themselves lobbyists – come up to me and ask me how my bill is doing.”