BY WESLEY P. HESTER

After a tumultuous week at the state Capitol, Del. David B. Albo, R-Fairfax, attempted to lighten the mood Friday by jokingly requesting an apology from his colleague, Del. David L. Englin, D-Alexandria.

With musical accompaniment.

In a speech on the House floor, Albo said that Tuesday night, after a day of intense debate over a contentious measure to require women to undergo ultrasounds before abortions, he returned home to see his wife and son.

Much of the debate — and this is key to Albo’s tale — has been about transvaginal ultrasounds.  

After putting his son to bed, Albo decided to join his wife in the living room to watch their “big, giant-screen TV” and enjoy some quality time, he said.

“I got Rita some red wine,” Albo said, cuing on a tape player some funk music that wouldn’t have felt out of place in a 70s-era adult film.

While flipping through the channels, Albo stopped after spotting his name on the screen, atop a photo of the amendment to the ultrasound bill.  

“The very next scene was the gentleman from Alexandria’s face, as big as my wall, going…’trans-V this, and trans-V that, and they hate women,’” he said, earning big laughs.

When the show ended, Albo said, his wife’s reaction was not as he’d hoped.  

“She looks at me and goes, ‘I’ve got to go to bed.’” he said, drawing applause and laughter from both sides of the aisle. “So if the gentleman’s plan was to make sure there was one less Republican in this world, he did it.”