WASHINGTON, May 21 -- 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 Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy (R-LA) led 129 Members of Congress in sending a bicameral letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging the Department to withdraw its latest attempt to transfer st  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on May 20, 2024: Last week, U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger honored the life and legacy of Terry Anderson on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Terry Anderson was a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran and Associated Press correspondent who was taken hostage by Hezbollah in 1985. In 2015, Anderson retired to a horse farm in Unionville, Virginia. He passed away last month at the age of 76. Cli  more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia, May 15 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news: This week, at a reception hosted at Virginian Wesleyan University, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) announced Alex Hudson as the winner of Virginia's Second District 2024 Congressional Art Competition. Alex Hudson is currently in his senior year at Catholic High School and won with his piece titled Waves of Freedom. The following students were announced as runners-up: * Fatima Huezo-Menendez from Sal  more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia, May 14 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news: Yesterday, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) visited the Virginia Beach Police Department Creeds Training Facility in honor of National Police Week. During the visit, she presented the police department with a check for $693,000 in federal funding she secured as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. "Law enforcement officers put their lives on the line every day to protect us and our fami  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news: Today, Congresswoman Kiggans voted in favor of H.R. 8369, Israel Security Assistance Support Act, which would require the Biden Administration to deliver Congressionally-approved munitions to Israel and reaffirm Israel's right to self-defense. On May 8, 2024, President Biden announced that his administration would be halting critical munition deliveries to Israel if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invade the city o  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on May 20, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2024 with Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.). WRDA 2024 author  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, led 129 lawmakers in urging the Department of Education (DeptEd) to withdraw its latest attempt t  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Chairman Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL) sent a letter to Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundat  more