CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) award from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to Generation West Virginia (GWV). Funding will assist GWV in restarting its fellowship program and retaining the next generation of West Virginia's business l  more

FAIRFAX, Virginia, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news on Aug. 4, 2023, and a letter: Today, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, a senior member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, sent a letter to Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf to request the Judicial Conference explicitly authorize the broadcasting of court proceedings in the cases of United States of America v. Donald J. Trump. The letter was led by Congressman Adam Schiff. "Our judicial sys  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (NY-21), and Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-09) co-led a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona condemning the Department of Education's decision to withhold Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) funds from hunting and archery   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- 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 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su slamming the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) for demanding financial information related to company officials and   more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $206,000 from the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help Generation West Virginia (GWV) restart its fellowship program and retain the next generation of business leaders in West Virginia. This federal award is one of the Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests Sena  more

CHESAPEAKE, Virginia, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Aug. 4, 2023: * * * Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 187,000 jobs in July, as the unemployment rate ticked down from 3.6 percent to 3.5 percent. This is higher than the 182,000 jobs created each month, on average, under the Trump administration prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sinc  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 4, 2023: * * * Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the below statement after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced it would hold a Reliability Technical Conference to evaluate the impacts to the electric grid from the U.S. Environmenta  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: On the third anniversary of the signing of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that the bipartisan legislation has brought $23.5 million to support and expand the outdoor recreation economy in West Virginia and address deferred mainte  more

WOODBRIDGE, Virginia, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger -- Co-Chair of the House Chesapeake Bay Task Force -- joined U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Bob Casey (D-PA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Mark Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Rob Wittman (R-VA-01), John Sarbanes (D-MD-03), and Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) to introduce a legislative package aimed at reducing pollution within the Chesa  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2023: Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $25,144,014 in federal funding for Virginia Beach to protect critical infrastructure from the impacts of consistent flooding and rising sea levels. The project will fund several upgrades - including stormwater pump stations - to support coastal resilience across the city and along Shore Drive. "Rising sea levels threaten liv  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $25,144,014 in federal funding for Virginia Beach to protect critical infrastructure from the impacts of consistent flooding and rising sea levels. The project will fund several upgrades - including stormwater pump stations - to support coastal resilience across the city and along Shore Drive. "Rising sea levels threaten li  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2023: Congressman Rob Wittman, along with U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Congressman John Sarbanes (MD-03) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to create a unified Chesapeake National Recreation Area (CNRA). The bill proposes to unite a series of voluntarily contributed park areas and iconic Bay properties under the operation of the National Park Service (NPS) in order to provi  more