WOODBRIDGE, Virginia, Feb. 17 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today relaunched her survey to collect experiences and concerns from Virginians about the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Recent reports indicate that USPS is experiencing staffing shortages throughout Virginia. Additionally, the USPS Board of Governors raised the price of stamps by 4.2 percent -- meaning Virginians are now paying more tha  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, as well as co-chair of the Senate Broadband Caucus, continued her efforts to tackle West Virginia's broadband challenges by introducing legislation. Most recently, Senator Capito introduced the Rural Broadband Protection Act, which would require a more thorough vetting and ve  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, yesterday questioned Federal Aviation Administrator (FAA) Acting Administrator Billy Nolen, during a hearing titled "The Federal Aviation Administration's NOTAM System Failure and its Impacts on a Resilient National Airspace." Senator Capito specifically aske  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- 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 $902,161 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for eight rural development projects across West Virginia. The investments will support installing new water and sewer lines at the Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center, providing marketing and sales assistance to  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $18,914,000 in funding to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), in drinking water in West Virginia through the Infrastruc  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- 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.) joined a bipartisan resolution - led by Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) condemning the Chinese spy balloon that was first publicly reported in U.S. airspace above Billings, Montana. This resolution unanimously passed the U.S. Senate on February 15, 2023. "The Chinese Communist Party's brazen violat  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today delivered opening remarks and questioned witnesses at a joint hearing examining the Biden Administration's border crisis, which has led to a public health crisis with record amounts of fentanyl and its analogues streaming across our southern border. Witnesses  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, Todd Young (R-IN), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), co-chairs of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, announced that the Senate passed their resolution recognizing February 2023 as CTE Month. A broad, bipartisan group of 72 senators co-sponsored the resolution. "I grew up working in my dad's ironworking shop, where I saw up close the essential role trade professionals play  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following statement on Feb. 16, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio which is 20 miles from the West Virginia border. "It has been 13 days since a Norfolk Southern train derailed causing a dangerous chemical fire and forcing residents to evacuate. I greatly appreciate the swift response of first responders and local and s  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- 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 $902,161 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for eight rural development projects across West Virginia. The investments will support installing new water and sewer lines at the Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center, providing marketing and sales assistance to the Appalachia  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $18,914,000 in funding to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), in drinking water in West Virginia through the Infrastructure Investme  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Virginia's U.S. Senator Tim Kaine penned an op-ed in today's Washington Post about their Protect our Citizens from Reckless Extortion of our Debt and Irresponsible Tactics (Protect Our CREDIT) Act of 2023--legislation aimed at ending Congress' abuse of the debt ceiling as a political hostage. Merkley and Kaine present The Protect our CREDIT Act as a comm  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to demand accountability from the Department on its failure to respond to several Committee inquiries. In the letter, Foxx writes: "I write to express my deep dissatisfaction with what I can onl  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the impact of the Russian Federation's war in Ukraine on European and global energy security one year after the February 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine. During the hearing, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, discussed how the war has affected   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito's (R-WV) bipartisan resolution condemning the Chinese spy balloon that was first publicly reported in U.S. airspace above Billings, Montana. "China's efforts to spy on the United States cannot and will not be tolerated. Our bipartisan resolution condemns in the strongest terms the Chinese spy balloon and their   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letetr: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today is pressing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to do more to combat the nationwide Adderall shortage -- and she is searching for answers about how the DEA will protect reliable access to prescription Adderall when the public health emergency ends on May 11. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress increased access to behavioral  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Chairman Mark R. Warner and Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services (SASC) and Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), joined Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) in a bipartisan push to fully fund the Department of Defense (DOD) office that addresses unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and airborne national securi  more