WASHINGTON, March 21 -- 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, and U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of an extension of the Price-Anderson Act in the package of six fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills. "For more than six decades, the Price-Anderson Act ha  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, joined a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues, led by U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), to introduce the Securing America's Titanium Manufacturing Act. The legislation aims to support America's titanium supply chain and promote investment in the U.S. defense industr  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- 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, and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging the agency to revise its National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Lime M  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Click here or on the image above to watch Senator Capito's floor speech. Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, delivered remarks on the Senate floor about Democrat hypocrisy. During her remarks, Senator Capito highlighted U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.), the Senate Majority Leader, speech last week where he called for n  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) spoke on the Senate floor to express support for his resolution to designate March 22, 2024, as the first-ever National Inland Waterways Workers Safety Awareness Day. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) joined Senator Manchin in introducing the resolution to honor and remember the life of Gabe White, a West Virginian who died in a barge accident in March 2023 at j  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Yesterday, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), questioned officials with the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) Reform Commission on reinstating the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Management Officer position and promoting fiscal responsibility when communicating within the Department. Congress established the PPBE Reform Com  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) reintroduced a bipartisan resolution to designate March 21, 2024 as National Women in Agriculture Day to recognize the critical contributions of West Virginian and American women in the agriculture industry. "West Virginia's farmers, ranchers and livestock producers play a vital role in our state's economy and provide nutritious food for our communities, and wome  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduced the bipartisan Securing America's Titanium Manufacturing Act to support America's titanium supply chain and bolster investment in the U.S. defense industrial base. Senator Manchin was joined by Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). Currently, the U.S. titanium industry impo  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan and urged the agency to revise its National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Lime Manufacturing Plants Amendments ("Lime NESHAP"), which would have negative impacts on li  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) held a hearing to consider the below nominees to serve as Commissioners on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). "The work of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is enormously important for our country. The Commission's job is to ensure the 'orderly development of plentiful supplies of electricity an  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Alex Mooney, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 22, 2024: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion partial government spending resolution. Rep. Alex X. Mooney voted NO on the spending package that continues to recklessly fund the government at obscene spending levels. The bill funds a host of President Joe Biden's liberal priorities. "Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats are salivating to support this $1.2 trillion spen  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: The Senate Appropriations Committee today released legislation, a large portion of which was authored by 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), to fund the Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Labor departments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. Th  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on March 21, 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 Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of an extension of the Price-Anderson Act in the package of six fiscal  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on March 22, 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 Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging the a  more