WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- 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) and all 24 Committee Republicans sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona blasting the Department's decision to delay rulemaking under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 originally expected this month amidst a national crisis of campus antisemitism. The rulemaking   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11) joined Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA-04), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee overseeing the courts, and six House colleagues in sending a letter to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas this weekend urging him to recuse himself in the Trump immunity case. The letter highlights his wife's "intimate involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 ele  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) announced that Jack Lingle of Blacksburg High School won the Congressional App Competition in Virginia's Ninth Congressional District. His app is entitled Heart Help. Mattox Jalbert of Benjamin Franklin Middle School earned second place with Hall Buddy, and Milo Tao-Lin of Blacksburg High School earned third place with Matharena. "Congratulations to Jack Lingle on win  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on Dec. 18, 2023: * * * The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $1,808,913 to Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems, Inc., headquartered in Saltville, Virginia. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement. "Community health centers provide critical care to many in Southwest Virginia. This $1,808,913 grant awarded by HHS to Southwest Virginia Community   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on Dec. 18, 2023: * * * Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on a newly released Congressional Budget Office report on S. 2488, the so-called Raise the Wage Act of 2023: "Bad ideas take their first breath in the Democrat-controlled Senate--that much is clear. S. 2488 might have  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement: * * * Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the Biden administration's final rule implementing Executive Order 14063 that fattens the wallets of its union boss bedfellows through lopsided project labor agreements on federal construction projects: "Whenever union boss  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) led fifteen House Democrats in a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The lawmakers expressed serious concerns about the increasing reports of children experiencing lead poisoning due to the consumption of lead-tainted cinnamon applesauce. They called on the FDA  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have awarded a total of $2,643,702 in grant funding from the Inflation Reduction Act -- which Spanberger voted to pass and the President signed into law -- to the Virginia Department of Energy to help reduce methane emissions from the oil and g  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, DC (December 18, 2023) -- Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (NC-04), Congresswoman Kathy Manning(NC-06), Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), and Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) sent a second letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Secretary Kimberly Bose, requesting that the Commission deny an extension of the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the M  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a legal opinion on whether guidance issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for implementing section 30D -- the Clean Vehicle Tax Credit -- of the Inflation Reductio  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) announced that the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act hit a major milestone of obtaining 100 cosponsors, just nine months since the bipartisan bill's introduction. The Tomorrow's Workforce Coalition, dedicated to championing and rallying support for the legislation, also continues to grow with more than 760 trade associations, professional societies, an  more