WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: 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 bipartisan group of 20 colleagues, in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) calling for immediate action on reforming pharmacy bene  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led 45 of her House Republican colleagues in sending a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) urging the agency to reevaluate the proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for 2025 that will harm seniors and requests additional transparency into how the decision to cut Medicare Advantage was made. In the letter,  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: Today on the House Floor, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) highlighted the Committee's extensive oversight efforts that resulted in the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) taking action to recover $127 million in taxpayer money sent to pension plans for dead participants. Ch  more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), both members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led their colleagues in sending a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure regarding persistent coverage gaps in Essential Health Benefits (EH  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on March 18, 2024: * * * Today, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans released the following statement regarding the President's Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) defense budget: "The President's inadequate defense budget does not do our country justice. At a time when Russia, China, and Iran are increasing their aggression, the President has chosen to project weakness on the world stage instead of keeping peace through strength.   more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Yesterday, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) brought attention to the critical need for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for patients in rural America. Click here to watch. Congresswoman Miller began by highlightinghow critical EMS isin West Virginiawhere patients often face barriers to transportation."I represent rural West Virginia and a third of our committee represents rural areas.We care a lot  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-02), Madeleine Dean (D-PA-04), and Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38) today are introducing bipartisan, bicameral legislation to help address the online sale of counterfeit pills and illicit drugs laced with fentanyl. In 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized more than 58 million fake pills containing fentanyl  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Chancellor Dr. Carol T. Christ, President Michael V. Drake, and Board of Regents Chair Richard Leib requesting documents and information regarding UC Berkeley's response to numer  more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Steve Daines (R-MT), members of the Senate Finance Committee, reintroduced legislation to improve orthotics and prosthetics care for seniors on Medicare. The Medicare Orthotics and Prosthetics Patient-Centered Care Act would strengthen Medicare patients' access to quality orthotics and prosthetics by reducing fraud, expanding access to replacement devices, and re  more