CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 26 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on May 25, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced 11 different local awards totaling $10,966,135 to help assess, clean up, and revitalize brownfield sites across West Virginia. "In almost every corner of our state, brownfield sit  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 26 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on May 25, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the DigDeep Right to Water Project is set to receive $495,840 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to upgrade its clean water infrastructure in McDowell County  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on May 25, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, led 26 of her colleagues in writing to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging him to withdraw recently announced emissions standards on American-made vehicles, including both light-duty cars and heavy-duty trucks. Th  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: * * * The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $1,138,200 through their Black Lung/Coal Miner Clinics Program to the St. Charles Health Council, located in Jonesville, Virginia. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement. * * * "Black lung is a horrible medical condition many coal miners must deal with. "Today's award of more than one million   more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on May 25, 2023: Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH) applauded House passage of their Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act, legislation to address the permanent scheduling of fentanyl analogues. "I am pleased the House has voted in favor of my critical legislation with Congressman Latta to permanently schedule deadly fentanyl analogues, strengthening law enfor  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- 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), Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su demanding information about recent reports that migrant children - many of whom were under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- 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) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su regarding serious delays in the processing of H-2A applications. The letter comes following disturbing quotes from DOL likening America's agr  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: Members of Congress representing Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia today wrote to leaders of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to express strong local opposition to "any changes to the current High Density ('Slot') and Perimeter rules at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ('National')." Their letter followed recent, local opposition to proposed changes to  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 26 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced $5,466,135 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields Program for ten initiatives across West Virginia. The funding is made possible in large part through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and will support assessing  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 26 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement regarding U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan's visit to McDowell County and the efforts to improve local drinking water and wastewater systems in the region. "For over a century, the people of McDowell County have made the hard sacrifices to power our nation to great  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the below statement following the Supreme Court's ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, which ruled in favor of the petitioners and significantly narrowed the authority the federal government has to regulate "waters of the United State  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 (TNScapv) -- Rep. Bob Good, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Bob Good (R-Va.) introduced the Desmond T. Doss Memorial Clinic Bill, which would rename the Lynchburg VA Clinic after Private First Class Doss for his brave service in World War II. PFC Doss was a conscientious objector who served as an Army medic during World War II and earned a Medal of Honor for his rescue of an estimated 75 men during the battle at Hacksaw Ridge. He was more recently   more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) released a statement following the Supreme Court's ruling on Sacket v Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The court unanimously reversed the 9th Circuit Courts Decision on the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule which will define the limits of EPA authority and federal jurisdiction when regulating private U.S. lands and water resources under the Clean Water Act.  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) released a statement on the passage of the Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) Fentanyl Act. "The bipartisan HALT Fentanyl Act is a necessary step to ending the fentanyl crisis in the United States," said Congresswoman Miller. "Due to the Biden Administration's open border policies, every single person feels the weight of the border crisis - with the steady flow of fent  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: * * * The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko, Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Matt Cartwright, Sean Casten, Chellie Pingree, and Katie Porter, and Chair Emeritus Rep. Gerry Connolly, released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's decision in Sackett v. EPA, which dramatical  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko, Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Matt Cartwright, Sean Casten, Chellie Pingree, and Katie Porter, and Chair Emeritus Rep. Gerry Connolly, released the following statement in response to the passage of S.J. Res. 11, a Republican-led resolution to overturn the Environment  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the below statement following the Supreme Court's ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, which ruled in favor of the petitioners and significantly narrowed the authori  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, led 26 of her colleagues in writing to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging him to withdraw recently announced emissions standards on American-made vehicles, incl  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Solving the Child Care Crisis: Meeting the Needs of Working Families and Child Care Workers" at 10 a.m. on May 31, 2023, at 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Witnesses * Ms. Elizabeth Groginsky, Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department, Santa Fe, NM * Ms. Lauren Hogan, Managing Director of Policy and Professional Advance  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger -- a former federal law enforcement officer -- today voted to pass legislation that would permanently schedule fentanyl analogues as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Fentanyl analogues are illicit alterations of medically prescribed fentanyl -- often shipped via the "dark web" from China and Mexico -- which mimic fentanyl's effects. According to  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan, issued the following news release and letter: Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su demanding information about recent reports that migrant children - many of whom were under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services - are being trafficked and working illegally in the United States. In the lette  more