WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: With a looming battle over the nation's debt and borrowing authority, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and 22 colleagues to introduce a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution to force the president and Congress to enact annual balanced budgets. The joint resolution (S.J.Res.13) proposes a constitutional amendment to establish requirement  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, yesterday participated in a hearing titled "Bringing Transparency and Accountability to Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM)," which addressed how the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act will bring transparency into PBM business practices and prohibit unfair or deceptive PBM   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) led a bipartisan group of 20 Senators in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, urging CMS to expand Alzheimer's patients' access to treatments. The letter c  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 Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and nine of their Senate Republican colleagues reintroduced legislation to help businesses comply with immigration laws by certifying the legal status of their workforce. The legislation, known as the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act, would permanently authorize and expand the E-Verify program, an inter  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.) reintroduced the Protecting Our Wealth of Energy Resources (POWER) Act, legislation led by U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) that prohibits the president or his secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Interior, Agriculture (USDA), or Energy from blocking energy or mineral leasing and permitting on federal lands and waters without Congressional appr  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 $17,633,800 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for 30 housing authorities across the state to help ensure quality, affordable housing for all West Virginians. The funding will specifically support upgrading and modernizing public housing   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.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) recently re-introduced the Early Educators Apprenticeship Act to support apprenticeships in early childhood education. Apprenticeships are an innovative way to address the challenges of costly expenses and staffing that plague the child care industry due to lack of available educators. Increasing the numbe  more