WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 5, 2023: On January 5, 2023, the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act of 2022, legislation authored by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), was signed into law by President Joe Biden. The bill reauthorizes the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, the most comprehensive childhood cancer bill ever passed by Congress, for another fiv  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 6 -- 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.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,660,220 from the U.S. Department of Education's Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program for Marshall University. The funding will support training school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educ  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 6 -- 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 $1,660,220 from the U.S. Department of Education Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program for Marshall University. The funding will support the training of school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational ag  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Todd Young (R-IN), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) released the following statements on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) proposed rule banning employers from imposing non-compete agreements on their employees. The FTC estimates that the new proposed rule could increase wages by nearly $300 billion per year and expand career opportunities for about 30 million Amer  more