WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2022: This week, Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) sent a letter urging the Department of Education to reconsider the nonprofit status of Everglades College after the Committee found that insiders at Everglades College and its subsidiary, Keiser University, have received millions of dollars in income from s  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined U.S. Representatives Tracey Mann (R-KS), Stephanie Bice (R-OK), and Jodey Arrington (R-TX), as well as U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), in sending a bicameral letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging him to withdraw a proposed rule seeking to further regulate the oil and gas industry. T  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Jan. 31, 2022: * * * Chairman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after at least six historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats on Monday. This is the second time bomb threats have been made at HBCUs in less than a month. "For the second time this month, bomb threats were made to at least half a dozen historically Black colleges and universitie  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2022: This week, Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) sent a letter urging the Department of Education to reconsider the nonprofit status of Everglades College after the Committee found that insiders at Everglades College and its subsidiary, Keiser University, have received millions of dollars in income from services provided to those institutions. The letter d  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2022 U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, participated in a subcommittee hearing today focused on expanding broadband deployment through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Senator Capito helped negotiate and craft. During the hearing, Senator Capito questioned U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo about  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2022: The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the state of the U.S. territories - American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, highlighted efforts Congress took to ensure the territories we  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers in calling for the extension of expanded coverage of telehealth services to be included in must-pass legislation in February. Provisions from the CONNECT for Health Act, reintroduced by Sen. Warner in April 2021, were included in previous COVID-19 relief legislation to allow Medicare beneficiaries to utilize telehealth servic  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2022: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Representative David McKinley (R-WV) announced West Virginia is eligible for $141,932,226 from the Department of the Interior to plug, remediate and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. The first phase of funding includes up to $25,000,000 in initial grants and another $30,293,000 in the first phase of fo  more