RICHMOND, Va (WTVR) -  Governor McDonnell has worked to grow Virginia’s wine industry while in office, and today he’s slated to sign into law a bill that will help  the Commonwealth’s micro-breweries.

Senate Bill 604 gives breweries permission to serve their beer at the same facilities where its made. Right now, the breweries have had to include a full service restaurant  in order to do that.

Without a full-service restaurant they can only sell to go orders, and offer samples.

Several local breweries lobbied for the change including both Legend Brewing and Hardywood Park Craft Brew both of which are Richmond-based.

“The politicians that cut budgets, they say we don’t need military anymore because the war’s over–wrong answer,” said one Marine Veteran.

“Dumping 200,000 Veterans in an economy with no employment, not the way to treat these modern patriots,” said another Navy Veteran.

They are just two of the thousands of Hampton Roads residents dead set against sequestration.

Last year in the epic battle over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, Congress came up with a compromise–cut $1.2 trillion to make up for the increase in the debt.

No one planned on the failure of the bipartisan “Super Committee” tasked with forging a deal, which triggered automatic reductions in spending.

That means $500 billion cut out of the Defense department budget, starting in just seven months.

The Pentagon is opening more than 14,000 combat-related roles to women serving in the Army.

Female soldiers had been excluded from those jobs because the roles were either close to ground combat or directly involved in combat.

But advocates pushed for a change in policy, since women already risk their lives by serving on the front lines in patrols, and in risky military police and security units.

The Defense Department plans to assess the new policy in six months.

According to the Army Times, about 30 percent of Army jobs will remain restricted to men.

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