The Virginia Senate voted today to kill a bill that would have repealed a mandatory HPV vaccine for girls enrolling in the sixth grade, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Good morning, Washington. Just as the weekend kicked off, the jobless numbers rolled in, and the District did not fare well. According to a Labor Department report released Friday, unemployment rose in D.C. to 11.1 percent in August. That’s up from 10.8 percent in July. Estimates put the total number of jobs lost in August around 15,000, and about 13,700 were lost in the public sector.

Contenders in the Republican presidential contest have been going after presumed front-runner Rick Perry for a number of reasons, but they’ve focused in on one issue that truly seems to resonate with conservatives — the HPV vaccine.