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FILE -The Virginia Capitol in Richmond, Va., is seen Thursday, March 4, 2010. In about half of Virginia's General Assembly's committees, membership is not based on proportional seating, creating a dynamic in which the majority party has sometimes been wildly over-represented. Democrats who controlled the Senate with 55% of its membership — a 22-18 majority — during this year's session wielded a 10-5 majority in the chamber's powerful budget-writing panel, for example. Another influential committee that shapes energy and business-related bills was stacked 12-3. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

FILE -The Virginia Capitol in Richmond, Va., is seen Thursday, March 4, 2010. In about half of Virginia's General Assembly's committees, membership is not based on proportional seating, creating a dynamic in which the majority party has sometimes been wildly over-represented. Democrats who controlled the Senate with 55% of its membership — a 22-18 majority — during this year's session wielded a 10-5 majority in the chamber's powerful budget-writing panel, for example. Another influential committee that shapes energy and business-related bills was stacked 12-3. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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