DENVER, Colorado, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Jason Crow (D-CO), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) and Joe Neguse (D-CO) joined U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Tom Carper (D-DE) and more than 180 other congressional Democrats in submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The amicus brief supports the EPA's authority under the Cl  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, issued the following statement on Jan. 27, 2022: * * * Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), released the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported its initial estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5.7% for 2021 and 6.9% for the fourth quarter. Visit the JEC's Macroeconomic Dashboard (https://urldefense.c  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced their cosponsorship of bipartisan legislation to remove the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would expressly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in the U.S. Constitution. This bipartisan, bicameral resolution was first introduced by Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and U.S. Representativ  more

HENRICO, Virginia, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger today helped lead the introduction of a resolution recognizing that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has met all legal requirements to be recognized as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. This resolution marks the two-year anniversary of Virginia's ratification of the ERA -- the date the ERA is slated to go into effect. As of today, the ERA is   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: This week, Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) joined Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in sending a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretery of Treasury Janet Yellen, urging them to seek targeted sanctions against members of the Duterte regime with documented records of grave human rights violations in the Philippines. Reports of widespread harassment and assa  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) announced nearly $2.8 million to help hardworking Virginian families with energy costs this winter through the Department of Health and Human Services' Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), made available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. As Americans continue to deal with the inflationary impacts of the pandemic, LIHEAP grantees will be  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following letter: To: The Honorable Xavier Becerra, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201 The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244 Dear Secretary Becerra and Administrator Brooks-LaSure: We write today to ex  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, chairwoman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, chairman of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, issued the following statements on Jan. 27, 2022, on NASA Day of Remembrance: * * * On NASA's Day of Remembrance, we honor the NASA heroes who lost their lives while advancing our nation's discovery and exploration of space. "NASA's annual Day of Remembrance is an important time of re  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led several of her colleagues in a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan. The letter asks EPA to reconsider its proposed blanket denial of small refinery exemptions (SRE) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) along with more than 190 congressional Democrats, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The brief supports EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to protect the public from harmful pollution, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and address the climate crisis. It also rejects spurious argume  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $12,255,617 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support 32 West Virginia healthcare providers. This funding from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) was inc  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Two years to the day after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) continue to lead the Senate effort to remove an arbitrary deadline that serves only to prevent the formal adoption of what should be the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. "There should be no deadline on equality," said Senator Cardin. "Mos  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Two years to the day after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla (both D-Calif.) today joined with Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to call for the Senate to pass S.J. Res. 1 to remove the arbitrary deadline that prevents the formal adoption of the amendment. "Equal rights for women sho  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced $400,947 from the American Rescue Plan for two West Virginia schools, a school district, and a library in the latest round of funding from the Emergency Connectivity Fund. This funding is distributed through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help schools and libraries purchase laptops and tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots, mode  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) announced $12,255,617 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support 32 West Virginia healthcare providers. This funding from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) was included in the CARES Act and other bipartisan COVID-19 relief packages.  more