CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 9 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on May 8, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $20,000,000 for the West Virginia Network for Functional Neuroscience and Transcriptomics. The funding, made available through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ESPCoR) Track-1 award program at the National Science Foundation, will wo  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 9 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Last week, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, helped introduce the Kids Online Safety Act, comprehensive bipartisan legislation - led by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) - to protect children online and hold Big Tech accountable. "Our children are the future,   more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on April 8, 2023: * * * U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) has released a statement following the National Institute of Health (NIH)'s announcement that they would resume grant funding for EcoHealth Alliance: "It's absolutely reckless that the NIH has renewed a grant for EcoHealth Alliance given their negligence and the breach of their contract with the NIH on the coronavirus research done at the Wuhan   more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, announced West Virginia has been awarded a highly competitive, five-year $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) that will boost scientific research and upgrade infrastructure at West Virginia University (WVU), Marshall University, West Virgini  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on May 8, 2023: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced $280,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (WVDHHR). The funding will support developing and implementing a statewide public water system supervision progra  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel issued the following written testimony by Lawrence B. Wilkerson, ex-special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, involving a hearing on April 26, 2023, entitled "Public Integrity and Anti-Corruption Laws at the Department of Defense": * * * In late August of 1993, I was helping Colin Powell move into his new home in McLean, Virginia. We were admiring a beautiful over-and-under shotgun that Mikhail Gorb  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following commentary on the Charleston Gazette-Mail on May 8, 2023: * * * In an op-ed published Sunday in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, wrote about the need to substantively reform America's broken permitting and environmental review   more