WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Last week, the U.S. Senate approved a bipartisan resolution offered by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) encouraging Americans nationwide to exercise greater caution in their holiday travels amid a period of historically increased traffic incidents and fatalities. The Senate passed their bipartisan Drive Safer Sunday Resolutio  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on Nov. 20, 2023: * * * Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed rule for Head Start: "Last year, an OIG report found more than a thousand incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, or unauthorized releas  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last week, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined 18 of her Senate Republican colleagues in calling on President Joe Biden to immediately enforce oil sanctions on Iran as mandated by Congress. The letter - led by U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) - also urges the administration to permanently freeze the $6 billion funding mechanism e  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last week, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, along with 45 of her Senate colleagues, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo that raised questions over the decision announced last month by the Bureau of Industry and Security to enact a 90-day pause for the issuance of export  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on the 55th anniversary of the Consolidation Coal Company's No. 9 Mine Tragedy in Farmington, West Virginia. "On November 20th, 1968, an explosion in the Consolidated Coal No. 9 Mine killed 78 men in my hometown of Farmington, West Virginia and this tragic disaster devastated our entire state. We still feel the los  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (WV-01) joined 25 of her House Republican colleagues in sending a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General, Gene Dodaro, urging the GAO to evaluate the Department of Interior's cancellation of seven oil and gas lease permits as announced on September 6th. The letter highlights 365,000 acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refu  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Marco Rubio encabeza la lista de los legisladores mas eficaces de Florida y ocupa el segundo lugar a nivel nacional 15 de noviembre del 2023 Informe Orwell Anualmente, el Centro para una Legislacion Efectiva (CEL) de la Universidad de Virginia y la Universidad de Vanderbilt evalua a los legisladores del Congreso de EE. UU. y los clasifica segun su eficacia y exito en la promulgacion de leyes y proyectos de  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news: Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) and Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced they have introduced Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2023 to expand Medicare coverage for medical nutrition plans and addressing health disparities. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced the companion bill in the Senate. "As a geriatric nurse practitioner, I have seen the positive impacts that medical nut  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Defense announced the selection of the Hampton Roads region as the first defense community in the Interagency Regional Coordinator for Resilience Pilot Program, which aims to increase federal support for collaboration between federal, state, and local entities to enhance climate resilience in defense communities. U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (Both D-VA) a  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: As first reported by Bloomberg, Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA), vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, alongside a group of 23 other lawmakers, urging the Defense Department to resolve extended delivery delays for upgraded F-16 multirole fighters and ground support equipment, which the United States owes to Taiwan. "Taiwan urgently need  more