WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 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 $500,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for the City of Charleston, W.Va. to establish a workforce development program the Charleston West Side Hope Center for Career Trainin  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a group of bipartisan colleagues to introduce the Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act. This bipartisan legislation - led by U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) - would strengthen U.S. trade remedy laws and ensure they remain effective tools to fight back against unfair trade practices and protect Am  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on June 7, 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 joined U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in sending a letter urging U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to abandon the agency's costly student loan fo  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, participated in a full committee hearing on ecosystem restoration projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. HIGHLIGHTS: IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN GETTING PROJECTS DONE: "I know it was a public-private partnership. And can you talk  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on June 7, 2023: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing examining the policies and priorities of the U.S. Department of Labor: "Acting Secretary Su, I'd like to start by saying that you have been a hard witness to schedule! The Committee b  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled "Looking Back Before Moving Forward: Assessing CDC's Failures in Fulfilling its Mission." Excerpts and highlights below:  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $911,095 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three research projects at West Virginia University (WVU). The funding will support vital research into the safety of water distribution pipes, evolutionary history and the scientific properties of Earth's radiation belts. "West Virginia U  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and John Boozman (R-AR), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, introduced the bipartisan Protecting Whales, Human Safety, and the Economy Act of 2023 to prohibit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from issuing a rule that modifies or replaces the North Atlantic Right Whale vessel strike reduction regulation until  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) and Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) introduced the Truth in Buffalo Labeling Act. This bipartisan legislation will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to ensure that products that use water buffalo are marketed as "water buffalo" so that consumers aren't misled to believe the product contains bison. "Owning a bison farm, I a  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following statement on June 7, 2023: * * * Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, "Perspectives on Ecosystem Restoration Projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." * * * Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as delivered. "Thank you, Chairman Carper, for calling today's hearing. "Since 2014, the Committee has kept to a bie  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) spoke at a Ways and Means Committee markup on the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 and the importance of access to telehealth for patients in rural America. * * * On access to telehealth in rural America: "If COVID-19 taught us anything, it is how critical telehealth is for patients in rural America for them to receive care. Especially for patients like in my hometow  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Last month Reps. Ron Estes (R-Kansas), Mike Carey (R-Ohio), Adrian Smith (R-Nebraska), Carol Miller (R-West Virginia), Kevin Hern (R-Oklahoma), Darin LaHood (R-Illinois) and Nicole Malliotakis (R-New York) introduced the Pay Less at the Pump Act, which will lower gas prices, foster domestic energy production and reduce America's reliance on foreign energy sources. "Kansas families and businesses   more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 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, participated in a full committee hearing on ecosystem restoration projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. HIGHLIGHTS: IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN GETTING PROJECTS DONE: "I know it was   more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, "Perspectives on Ecosystem Restoration Projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as delivered. "Thank you, Chairman Carper, for calling today's hearing. "Since 20  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on June 7, 2023: * * * U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today issued the following statement: "The United States faces a dramatically different threat landscape today than it did just a couple of decades ago, with new threats and new technology that mean we must make substantial adjustments to our counterintelligence posture if we are going to successfull  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on June 6, 2023: U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and 13 of their Senate colleagues in urging the Biden Administration to help streamline health insurance enrollment for low-income families. In their letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-L  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, U.S. Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Don Beyer (D-VA), and Gerry Connolly (D-VA) introduced the bipartisan Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act to designate Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region suffering persecution at the hands of the Chinese government as priority refugees and expedite  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) released the following statement after being appointed to the House Committee on Natural Resource's bipartisan Indo-Pacific Task Force for the 118th Congress: "The People's Republic of China is the free world's greatest threat - especially to the island nations and territories in the Indo-Pacific region. The bipartisan Indo-Pacific Task Force emphasizes C  more