HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 15 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on March 13, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released the following statement in response to President Biden's expected announcement of a landmark purchase and training agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom under which Australia will purchase as many as five Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines from the United States. "This deal is truly historic - big an  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) recently joined with a bipartisan group of colleagues to reintroduce the Major Richard Star Act- legislation led by U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)--to provide combat-injured veterans with less than 20 years of military service their full benefits. "Our veterans in West Virginia put sacrifice before self in their service   more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), all members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, introduced legislation today that would require the U.S. Comptroller General to investigate airlines on their capacity to prepare for and respond to extreme weather events and natura  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) were joined by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Peter Welch (D-VT), in urging the State Department to hold Guatemalan officials accountable for corruption and encouraging the Department of State to revi  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that a $1.27 million contract has been awarded to a Morgantown, West Virginia-based contractor to plug one abandoned gas well at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve--America's newest national park--and two abandoned oil and gas wells at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Peninsula, Ohio. The c  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $202,800 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the city of Gordon. The funding is made possible through the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) program and will provide critical resources to the city's fire departm  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $293,903 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for sixteen West Virginia housing organizations. The funding will specifically support connecting West Virginians living in multifamily housing who are elderly or living with disabilities with critical community-based services. "Every West V  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $3,252,469 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. The funding will support properly maintaining, monitoring and upgrading underground storage tanks across West V  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) led ten bipartisan Senators in urging Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Ur Jaddou to reconsider plans to dramatically increase the fees businesses pay for H-2A and H-2B non-immigrant work visas. These temporary visas are critical for helpi  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the below statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) setting a maximum contaminant level (MCL) for two of the best-studied and most prevalent per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water, PFOA and PFOS. "After years of urging three consec  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that a $1.27 million contract has been awarded to a Morgantown, West Virginia-based contractor to plug one abandoned gas well at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve--America's newest national park--and two abandoned oil and gas w  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced the Advancing Long-term Incentives for Governance Now Act (ALIGN) Act to institute holding periods for stock buybacks and stock-based compensation - a measured move that would encourage company executives to prioritize investments that strengthen their companies over the long term, instead of focusing on short-ter  more