WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) today announced the introduction of the Off-Chain Digital Commodity Transaction Reporting Act, legislation that would protect participants in the digital asset market by requiring trading platforms to report all transactions to a repository registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). "As consumers increasingly turn to large digital asset trading platf  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Alex Mooney, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: Rep. Alex X. Mooney introduced H.R. 5767, the No Gun Rights Infringement Sham Act, or No GRISHAM Act, to prohibit states or local governments that suspend concealed or open firearm carry permits from receiving any Federal financial assistance. For background, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an emergency order earlier this month which suspended open and concealed fir  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, released the following statement in advance of today's Committee hearing on Republican's baseless impeachment inquiry. Connolly says of the hearing: "This is an impeachment inquiry in search of a justification, and it is a particular waste of time while we sit at the precipice of a government shutdow  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 27, 2023: * * * Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement castigating the Department of Education's issuance of a final rule that presses a thumb down on career schools across America: "For an agency that purports to serve the needs of veterans, minorities, and other disa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- 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) slammed President Biden for his unprecedented move to stand on the picket line with members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Michigan. The president's attempt to score political points at the strike inappropriately tips the scale in favor of the UAW and comes with s  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks at today's hearing on the start of the start of the Maui fires and the potential role of electric infrastructure in the fires. "On August 7 and 8 a series of fires b  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Michael T. McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), and House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Securit  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Alex Mooney, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congressman Alex X. Mooney's amendment to H.R. 4665, the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs funding bill, to cut off economic aid to Mexico due to their failure to stop the production and trafficking of fentanyl. This amendment is in response to the patently false statement by Mexican President Lopez Obrador,   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Joint Economic Committee Chairman Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and JEC Senior House Democrat Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08) released the following statement as the federal government comes to the brink of a shutdown. Earlier this month, the Joint Economic Committee Democrats released a report highlighting the economic impacts of a government shutdown. Estimates show that the 2013 shutdown reduced GDP growth by $20 billion  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news: Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) announced she has introduced H.R. 5490, the Bolstering Ecosystems Against Coastal Harm (BEACH) Act. This bipartisan legislation aims to protect coastal Virginia by approving new, expanded maps under the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA). Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1982, CBRA uses a free-market approach to coastal conservation: banning most federal tax dollars   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) announced a grant of $82,575.00 from the National Park Service for Land and Water Conservation Fund projects. This grant will be used to invest in the development of more local outdoor recreation programs for West Virginians."The beauty of West Virginia comes from our abundant natural resources and communities that invest into projects which   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today announced the initial results of her survey asking Virginians if they believe a government shutdown would negatively impact them, their family, or their business. Virginia is home to thousands of active duty servicemembers, federal contractors, and federal employees -- and Virginia's Seventh District is home to the second most federal government workers o  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger last night reiterated her commitment to investing in Virginia's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), particularly the agricultural education and research at Virginia State University. Last week, the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Agriculture released new data that showed that the Commonwealth of Virginia's decades of underf  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2023: After hearing directly from nearly 1,000 Virginians who would feel the consequences of a reckless government shutdown, U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today called on U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to immediately bring bipartisan legislation to fund the government to the floor of the U.S. House for a vote in order to keep the government open and protect Virginia's economy.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news: Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) announced that she and Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) have introduced the bipartisan Treatment, Recovery, Education, Awareness and Training (TREAT) for Youth Act. This legislation reauthorizes a critical community-based program to support youth at risk of substance abuse before it expires at the end of this month. "With more Americans dying from drug overdoses than ever before,   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine opportunities to counter the People's Republic of China's control of critical mineral supply chains through increased mining and processing in the United States as well as international engagement and trade. During the hearing, Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) discu  more