WASHINGTON, June 14 -- 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, and Congressman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, introduced the AI Leadership to Enable Accountable Deployment (AI LEAD) Act. The bipartisan legislation will help ensure th  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on June 14, 2024: * * * Today, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) released the below statement following the passage of H.R. 8070 the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), FY25, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 217-199. The legislation authorizes critical U.S. defense systems, counters China's growing aggression, modernizes our fightin  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: On the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger -- a Member of the U.S. House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force -- urged Speaker Johnson to bring bipartisan legislation to the U.S. House floor to address our nation's gun violence epidemic. In an average year, 1,121 Virginians die by guns and 1,911 are wounded. To help prevent gun violence in communities in V  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on June 14, 2024: * * * U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today released the following statement following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Garland v. Cargill, which overturns a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks. "During the 2017 Las Vegas shooting -- the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, a gunman swiftly killed 58 people and injured 800 more using a semiautomatic rifle modif  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after voting against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025: "The annual NDAA has always been enacted with bipartisan support to address national security threats our country faces. The House Armed Services Committee passed a strong bipartisan bill that would grant a well-deserved pay increase for servicemembers,   more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: Today, Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, was joined by Tom Karam, Executive Chairman of Equitrans Midstream, and Toby Rice, President and CEO of EQT, to celebrate the official start of operations of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. "Today, I'm joined by Tom Karam, E  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) today applauded the House passage of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25 NDAA), which will set the framework for America's defense policy. "After many hours of thoughtful debate, I am pleased to see Congress pass this critical piece of legislation to ensure the U.S. military is the most effecti  more