WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Benjamin Cline, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) introduced two pieces of legislation, which would attack waste in our bureaucracy and ensure federal agencies are held accountable to private citizens and small businesses during the rulemaking process: the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvement Act and the Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act. "Good governance begins with accountability, and nowhere is this n  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Jan. 13, 2023: * * * Congressman Bobby Scott, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education announced that Hampton University will receive $214,317 in Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) grants. "Last year, bomb threats were made to multiple Historically Black Colleges and Uni  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2023, and letter: Ahead of a key deadline today, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) is calling attention to a challenge submitted by the Virginia Office of Broadband to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), pointing to a significant number of locations in Virginia that are currently incorrectly reported on the most recent FCC broadband coverage map. In November, after a sustained push from Se  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2023: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger yesterday voted with a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House to pass legislation that would ban the United States from sending Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) gas to the Chinese Communist Party. After the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo of 1973 - 1974, Congress created the SPR to insulate Americans from global   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Jan. 13, 2023: * * * Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) issued a statement on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that concluded that the 2019 relocation of two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research agencies by the Trump administration led to a decline in workforce size and productivity. Wexton has been an outspoken critic of the relocation of the Economic Research Agency (ERS) a  more