Presumption that Legislator expresses itself through Words

" We "assume that the legislature chose, with care, the words it used when it enacted the relevant statute." 
[ Barr v.  Town & Country Properties, Inc., 240 Va. 292, 295, 396 S.E.2d 672, 674 (1990)]. 
Alger v. Commonwealth, 267 Va. 255, 590 S.E.2d 563, (2004).