WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) directed the NRC staff to publish the proposed rule and draft guidance to establish the draft licensing framework for advanced nuclear reactors, known as the Part 53 rulemaking. "I applaud the  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, 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 (Labor-HHS), joined 31 of her Senate Republican colleagues to introduce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) final worker classification rule. Spe  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Yesterday, 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 (Labor-HHS), joined a group of 16 of her Republican colleagues to send a letter raising serious concerns to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli, M.D. following President   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, are calling on the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider proposed regulations for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new and exis  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.-05), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee, wrote to President Biden regarding his plan to flout Senate confirmation requirements in replacing outgoing "climate czar" John Kerry with John Podesta.   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force Co-Chairs Reps. John Sarbanes (D-Md.), Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Rob Wittman (R-Va.) introduced a slate of bipartisan bills to reauthorize funding for conservation and clean-up efforts throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. "The Chesapeake Bay is an unrivaled natural resource that spurs recreational and economic opportunities for millions of re  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Benjamin Cline, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: U.S Congressman Ben Cline (R-VA) today announced the retirement of his long time Chief of Staff Matthew Miller: "After 30 years of federal service Matt wraps up a distinguished career encompassing pivotal roles in both the executive and legislative branches. Matt also served in the U.S. Navy being deployed to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, as well as civilian Department of Defense tours in Afg  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, announced that the House adopted fourteen of his Community Project Funding (CPF) requests in the first of two FY24 appropriations packages. The funding package passed the House 339-85. "I am proud to have secured more than $12 million for projects ac  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news on March 5, 2024: Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), a senior member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the President Emeritus of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, joined Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Congressman William Keating (D-MA), and 59 of their colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden, urging him to use diplomatic leverage to pursue a stop to the violence in Gaza, outline a cle  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on March 6, 2024: * * * Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement announcing the beginning of the 2024 Congressional Art Competition in the Ninth District: "Each year, the U.S. House of Representatives sponsors the Congressional Art Competition for high school students. It's a great opportunity to see the artistic talents of Southwest Virginia students, one of whom will have the cha  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Virginia, chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Rob Wittman (R-VA), Chairman of the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, delivered the following opening remarks at a hearing on the U.S. Army's modernization plans, requirements, and investments in aviation programs as part of the Army's recently announced Aviation Investment Rebalance. Rep. Wittman  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- 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 the Biden administration for paying college students through the Federal Work-Study program to register voters ahead of the 2024 election Chairwoman Foxx's remarks (as prepared for delivery): "The Biden administration is desperate to shore up support before th  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton's (D-VA) Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0, which would reauthorize federal funding for the National Institute of Health's (NIH) Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First), which has supported lifesaving pediatric research of treatments and cures for childhood cancer over the  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), introduced the Divided Families National Registry Act, bipartisan legislation to help reunite Korean Americans who have been separated from their relatives in North Korea since the Korean War. For Korean Americans who have immigrated to the U.S. since the war, there is no off  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,588,356 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three research projects at West Virginia University. The funding will support research into a grid-resistant energy ecosystem and the recovery of key macronutrients from wastewater, as well as provide opportunities for students to att  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), applauded the West Virginia National Guard (WVNG) for being selected as the U.S. partner to the nation of Gabon in Central Africa for the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program. "The West Virginia National Guard continues to make our state and country proud, and I'm thrilled they ha  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) introduced a bill to curb the shortage of transportation vehicles in the private market. The Small Business Transportation Investment Act will address the shortage of vehicles available to small businesses that provide transportation services by creating a new program within the General Service Administration's (GSA) Fleet Vehicle Sales Program   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) secured a total of $11,823,000 worth of funding for a variety of projects around West Virginia. Thirteen out of the fifteen Community Project Funding requests Congresswoman Miller submitted passed the House of Representatives, and funding will be available for projects to access once the Senate passes and President Joe Biden signs the Consolidat  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, "Examining Extended Producer Responsibility Policies for Consumer Packaging." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as delivered. "Thank you, Senator Carper, and good morning to all of you. It's nice to be here this morning. "This Committee's contin  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news on March 6, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) released the below statement after voting in favor of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. This legislation, which passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 339 to 85, includes bills that provide a total $460 billion in government funding. Notably, base spending across these six bills is $9 billion below the same six bills from Fiscal Year 2023 and come  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today announced Fredericksburg Academy students Kaylee Meier, McKenna Withers, Riya Menachery, and Riyan Golden as the Seventh District winners of the annual Congressional App Challenge and welcomed the group to Capitol Hill. The team created an app that connects users with an index of Members of Congress from Virginia, providing their photo, dis  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, "Examining Extended Producer Responsibility Policies for Consumer Packaging." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as delivered. "Thank you, Senator Carper, and good morning to all  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.-05), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee, wrote to President Biden regarding his plan to flout Senate confirmation requirement  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, are calling on the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider prop  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism issued the following testimony by Santia Nance, co-founder of Sistas in Prison Reform, involving a hearing on Feb. 28, 2024, entitled "The Nation's Correctional Staffing Crisis: Assessing the Toll on Correctional Officers and Incarcerated Persons": * * * Chair Booker, Ranking Member Senator Cotton, and members of the Subcommittee, my name is Santia Nance. I'm the mother of a middle-schooler, Vir  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik released the following statement after Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx announced that Harvard University's response to the committee's subpoena in relation to its investigation into campus antisemitism was unsatisfactory. "This is more proof that Harvard and the Harvard Corporation Board Members know that they are in deep, deep le  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $2,500,000 for Prince William County to help construct an interchange and additional improvements at the intersection of Minnieville Road and Prince William Parkway. This investment -- which Spanberger secured as part of a House-passed fiscal year (FY)2024 app  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $200,000 for improvements to the American Job Center in Fredericksburg. The American Job Center provides employment resources to job seekers in the Fredericksburg region to increase access to the job market and lower barriers to employment. This investment --   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $450,000 for the Madison County Sheriff's Office to purchase new equipment to provide reliable emergency radio coverage at Madison County Public Schools. This investment -- which Spanberger secured as part of a House-passed fiscal year (FY)2024 appropriations   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $820,000 for community-focused projects in Greene County -- including improvements to Greene County Community Park and a new virtual reality training system for the Greene County Sheriff's Office. This investment -- which Spanberger secured as part of a House-  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $920,000 to make much-needed improvements to the Town of Occoquan's aging stormwater management system. This investment -- which Spanberger secured as part of a House-passed fiscal year (FY)2024 appropriations package -- would allow the Town of Occoquan to upg  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $1,746,000 for Stafford County to make much-needed infrastructure and public safety improvements -- including widening a section of Onville Road, completing improvements along U.S. Route 1, and purchasing a new emergency dispatch system for the Stafford County   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $1,012,777 for multiple community-focused projects in Culpeper County and the Town of Culpeper -- including to acquire a new critical incident vehicle for the Culpeper Police Department, update the auditorium at the Carver Center, and make Lenn Park more access  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's legislation that would provide $4,616,279 for Spotsylvania County to increase capacity and safety along the I-95 corridor and help construct a new 1-million-gallon water tower to serve residents of the county and the City of Fredericksburg. This investment -- which Spanberger secured as par  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a former civil rights attorney, have joined 48 of their colleagues in introducing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation would update and restore critical safeguards included in the original Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court weakened crucial tenets of that landmark law prohibiting discriminatory voting practices. "The Voting Rights   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a former civil rights attorney, have joined 48 of their colleagues in introducing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation would update and restore critical safeguards included in the original Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court weakened crucial tenets of that landmark law prohibiting discriminatory voting practices.   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced $14,996,550 in Community Project Funding that she secured for Virginia's 10th District in the 2024 spending bills. This funding, included in the first of the appropriations government funding packages set to be voted on this week, responds directly to some of the most pressing needs and priorities in the 10th District. "I'm proud to   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) voted to pass the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, a package of six domestic spending bills focused on providing crucial support to families and communities across the country. The bill includes $14,996,550 in Community Project Funding (CPF) for Virginia's 10th District that will go to directly support a variety of local projects, includin  more