WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on March 29, 2024: * * * Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued a statement following reports of additional FAFSA failures: "Amidst ongoing and newfound FAFSA errors, it's evident the administration's focus on free college is overshadowing good governance. If the Education Department exercised d  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on March 29, 2024: * * * Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Department of Labor's (DOL) final Walkaround Rule, which would give unions and left-wing activists who are not employees of the employer access to worksites during Occupational Safety and Health Adminis  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - In an op-ed published today in The Dominion Post, 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), wrote about the importance of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and how her partnership with NIH has benefitted West Virginia. The op-ed   more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger yesterday joined 257 of her colleagues in filing an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) that the Supreme Court will hear this April. EMTALA is a federal law that requires hospitals that receiv  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger hosted an open, public telephone town hall to discuss issues faced by Virginia families and seniors. During Wednesday's event, Spanberger and Seventh District residents discussed many topics and priorities -- including cracking down on illicit fentanyl, fixing America's broken immigration system, protecting retirement benefits, deliver security assistance to Am  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko, Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Matt Cartwright, Sean Casten, Chellie Pingree, and Katie Porter, and Chair Emeritus Rep. Gerry Connolly, released the following statement in response to the finalization of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new pollution stan  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON. D.C. - Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $1,000,000 for the City of Richmond in order to create a nature park at Broad Rock Creek. The funding, courtesy of the National Park Service's Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership, was made possible through the Great American Outdoors Act, which was authored and championed by Sen. Warner and Sen. Kaine. Specifically, the  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) celebrated that eight small-scale transportation infrastructure projects in Virginia's 10th Congressional District will receive a total of $11,927,128 in federal funding allocated by The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB). This funding is part of federal Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TA Set-Aside) Program funding for Virginia, which   more