WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- The House Small Business Committee issued the following testimony by Alice P. Frazier, president and CEO of the Bank of Charles Town, on behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of America, as part of a hybrid hearing on Sept. 30, 2021, entitled "Empowering Employee Owned Businesses and Cooperatives Through Access to Capital": * * * I am Alice P. Frazier, President and CEO of the Bank of Charles Town headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia. I testify today on beha  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit issued the following testimony by Frank J. Principi, chairman of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission's M-495 Fast Ferry Stakeholder Group, as part of a hybrid hearing on Sept. 28, 2021, entitled "Examining the Role of Ferries in Improving Mobility": * * * I am a former local elected official from Prince William County, Virginia and serve as the Chairman of the Northern Virginia Regional  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, issued the following news on Oct. 7, 2021: Yesterday, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC)--led by Chairman Don Beyer (D-VA)--held a hearing titled "Building Back Better: Raising Revenue to Invest in Shared Prosperity" to examine the economic benefits of the revenue provisions included in the Build Back Better reconciliation and bipartisan infrastructure packages. Currently, the United State  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led a letter signed by every Republican Committee Member to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding a Committee briefing regarding the administration's recent threats against parents concerned about t  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: House Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to request that their Departments work together to ensure that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) requirements to provide individuals with coverage for the full range of contraceptives app  more

HENRICO, Virginia, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger this week led the introduction of bipartisan legislation to protect systemically important critical infrastructure (SICI) from cyberattacks. Even in the wake of recent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, like the DarkSide attack on the Colonial Pipeline, the United States lacks a truly comprehensive understanding of what constitutes "systemically important crit  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona requesting an overdue report regarding limiting student loan borrowing. Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today applauded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcement that Citynet will receive $53 million in funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). Citynet is the first West Virginia company to be a  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, joined 37 of her colleagues in a letter--led by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas)--asking U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to address reports that thousands of migrants in Del Rio, Texas, were released into the interior of the U.S. instead of  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that West Virginia broadband service provider Citynet will receive $53,513,114 over the next decade from the first round of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) to expand broadband access across West Virginia. According to BroadbandNow, the FCC has overestimated broadband coverage in West Virginia more   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) spoke on the Senate Floor on Hershel "Woody" Williams' recent 98th birthday as the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient and the importance of honoring every brave Word War II Medal of Honor recipient with a State Funeral and lying in state ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. "Woody Williams has dedicated his life to the United States, through his service in the   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following statement on Oct. 7, 2021: * * * This evening, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on the short-term debt limit increase. "Reaching the debt limit is the result of spending Congress has already authorized under both Republican and Democratic control. "Defaulting on our bills in the middle of a pandemic would have devastating impacts on American workers and the economy. "Yesterday, I ca  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $293,244 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Grow Ohio Valley as part of the urban Agriculture Innovation Production (UAIP) Competitive Grants Program. This funding will support the utilization of the Big Wheeling Agrarian Center as a trai  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $5,599,446 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three projects at West Virginia University to study and develop emerging technologies, including smarter and more secure manufacturing, carbon capture utilization and storage, and advanci  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $293,244 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Grow Ohio Valley as part of the urban Agriculture Innovation Production (UAIP) Competitive Grants Program. This funding will support the utilization of the Big Wheeling Agrarian Center as a training and demons  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $5,599,446 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three projects at West Virginia University to study and develop emerging technologies, including smarter and more secure manufacturing, carbon capture utilization and storage, and advancing computing cap  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced his co-sponsorship of the bipartisan Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2021, legislation to significantly increase Medicare-supported doctor training to help address the growing nationwide physician shortage crisis. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the U.S. is expecte  more