WASHINGTON, May 10 -- 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 Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, today announced a $598,000 Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to West Virginia University (WVU). This funding will help support the study of High-Temperature Topological Superconductivity in Correlated Two-Dime  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, today announced five organizations in West Virginia will collectively receive $6,555,818 in State and National funding, including grants and education awards from AmeriCorps. Through this competition, five succ  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), today co-sponsored bipartisan legislation--led by U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.)--resembling the operations of Title 42, giving the Biden administration a two-year temporary expulsion authority for migrants to illegally enter the United States without inspection or proper documents. "For over two years,  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), reintroduced bipartisan legislation to increase support for children who have been exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma, including witnessing community violence, parental addiction, or abuse. The Resilience Investment, Suppo  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: On Tuesday, May 16, at 10:15 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a full committee hearing titled "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Department of Education." Secretary Miguel Cardona will testify at the hearing. "The wheels are falling off at the Department. Reckless s  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, introduced a bipartisan resolution to honor America's public servants during Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW), which is celebrated during the first week in May. The resolution is co-led in the House by Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House   more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) announced the introduction of the Justice for Victims of Open Borders Act, a bill that would yield targeted reforms to grant disbursements through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) so that states must give priority to victims of violent crimes committed by people who are in the United States illegally: "The open border policies of the Biden administration have led to  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: On the House Floor, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke in opposition to the Biden administration's efforts to radicalize the federal American history and civics grant priorities amidst the record drop in students' history and civics scores. Chairwoman Foxx's remarks: "The National Assessment of E  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine--who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee--joined Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) in reintroducing the Early Educators Apprenticeship Act, bipartisan legislation to address staffing shortages of child care and early childhood educators by developing, administering, and evaluating early childhood education apprent  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) led 45 bipartisan Senators in reintroducing a resolution to designate May 9th, 2023 as National Fentanyl Awareness Day. The resolution seeks to raise awareness about the increase in counterfeit drugs containing fentanyl that are flooding communities across the nation and encourages authorities to stop and prevent the spread of counterfeit pills. "In the last year, more th  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 9 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following commentary to the Charleston Gazette-Mail on May 7, 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 process, and the impact it would have on West Virgini  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The Senate Finance Committee issued the following testimony by Robert L. Trestman, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association, involving a hearing on May 3, 2023, entitled "Barriers to Mental Health Care: Improving Provider Directory Accuracy to Reduce the Prevalence of Ghost Networks": * * * Chairman Wyden and Ranking Member Crapo, on behalf of the American Psychiatric   more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued the following information for a nominations hearing at 2 p.m. on May 16, 2023, at 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Nominees * Ms. Ana A. Escrogima, of New York, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Sultanate of Oman * The Honorable Lisa A. Johnson, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Servic  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following testimony by Amanda Frost, law professor at the University of Virginia, involving a hearing on May 2, 2023, entitled "Supreme Court Ethics Reform": * * * Thank you for inviting me to testify regarding Congress's role in regulating the ethical obligations of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. I am a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law. My areas of expertise include federal courts and judicial ethics, a  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on May 9, 2023: U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging them to ensure that investments through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), a key Inflation Reduction Act program, serve to strengthen diverse-owned financial institutions dedicated to climate financing in low-income communities and communities of colo  more