WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (Local 2325) President Lisa Ohta after the union failed to comply in full with the Committee's subpoena demands. The letter dismisses Local 2325's meritless claims that the subpoe  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on April 8, 2024: * * * Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' (NAIA) vote to protect women's sports: "Allowing biological males to compete in women's sports is a travesty--one that the Biden administration is enabl  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on April 8, 2024: * * * Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration announcing a new set of plans to cancel illegally more student loan debt, forcing taxpayers to foot the bill: "Here we go again. President Biden continues to break the la  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. - Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), traveled to Kearneysville, W.Va. where she participated in the events celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Hospice of the Panhandle's Kearneysville campus. Senator   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Alex Mooney, R-West Virginia, issued the following statement on April 8, 2024: * * * Today, President Joe Biden announced he is forgiving outstanding student loan debt for more than 30 million Americans, shifting the burden from those who willingly took out a loan to all taxpayers. This comes as President Biden has already unilaterally wiped away $146 billion in federal student loan debt without a single act of Congress. "Today's announcement is just the latest abu  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $10,251,613 in federal funding for Stafford County to improve the resiliency of Brooke Road. The funding was awarded through the Department of Transportation's Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT) Grant Program, which was made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law the se  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $24,439,297 in federal funding for two resiliency projects in the Commonwealth. The funding, courtesy of the Department of Transportation Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT) Grant Program, was made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law the senators passed an  more