CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Oct. 22 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $440,681 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR). The funding was made possible through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which passed the Senate and was   more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Oct. 22 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 21, 2022: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,332,195 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for four West Virginia agricultural projects designed to strengthen and expand access to local and regional food businesses. The funding was made possible through USDA's Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP), which was supplemen  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Oct. 22 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $440,681 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR). The funding was made possible through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which passed the Senate and was signed into law in J  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 21, 2022: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger -- a former CIA case officer -- today released the following statement in response to a new report from Forbes indicating that Chinese video app "TikTok's" parent company -- ByteDance -- "planned to use the TikTok app to monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens... without their knowledge or consent." "As a Chinese-owned c  more

HENRICO, Virginia, Oct. 22 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 21, 2022, and letter: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today called on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to move forward with the formal process of extending VA benefits to Veteran firefighters living with chronic illnesses. Earlier this year, Spanberger voted to pass the bipartisan Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Representatives Rob Wittman (VA-01), Bobby Scott (VA-03), and John Sarbanes (MD-03), all co-chairs of the bipartisan Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force, issued the following statement after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced the inaugural slate of awards for the Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense (Chesapeake W  more