WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, the Education and the Workforce Committee passed five bills that will expedite the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process, improve workforce data collection, and protect American savers and retirees: H.R. 8932, FAFSA Deadline Act; H.R. 2574, EMS Counts Act; H.R. 6319, Supporting Accurate Views of   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today introduced the Fulbright Teacher's Loan Forgiveness Act, legislation to expand student debt relief qualification under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program for participants in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange and Teaching Assistant programs. "Fulbright Teacher Exchange and Teaching Assistant program participants build international networks, foster collaborations that   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, will address NATO's Heads of State and Government at their Summit meeting in DC today, July 10, 2024. Connolly will speak at 1:00PM at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The Assembly's President is traditionally invited to address NATO Summits to present the views of Allied legislators on the key issues affecting t  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at the Committee's markup of H.R. 8932, FAFSA Deadline Act; H.R. 2574, EMS Counts Act; H.R. 2941, Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals Act; H.R. 6319, Supporting Accurat  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: In a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), and Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) are demanding DOJ investigate The Palestine Chronicle and People Media Project for potential   more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of Rep. Mary Miller's (R-IL) H.J. Res. 165, a Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the Biden administration's Title IX rule that endangers women and robs them of hard-earned opportunities. Chairwoma  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: In a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05), and Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) demanded DOJ investigate The Palestine Chronicle and People Media Project for potential crimes related to providing   more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,335,348 from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) for West Virginia University at Parkersburg (WVUP). The funding will be used to create an advanced manufacturing training facility, which will support workforce development, help create good-paying jobs in the manufacturing industry and boost the r  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the bipartisan Department of Energy AI Act to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) by harnessing the existing National Laboratory infrastructure and workforce at the Department of Energy (DOE). "As AI technology takes the world b  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) voted to advance H.R. 8958, the NASA Reauthorization Act, out of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee to the House Floor for consideration. "The NASA Reauthorization Act affirms the United States' commitment to cutting-edge research and development, scientific innovation, and exploration of the final frontier," said Congresswoman McClella  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA) in applauding Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for including home dialysis services for patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in their Calendar Year 2025 (CY25) End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule. In October 2023, Congresswoman Miller and Congresswoman DelBene led a l  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Click here or the image above to watch Ranking Member Capito's opening remarks from the committee hearing. Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, "The Response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse on March 26, 2024." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as delivered. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and th  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger -- the sponsor of the bipartisan TRUST in Congress Act -- today released the following statement after a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators unveiled new legislation to ban Members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent children from trading individual stocks. "In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans across the country wer  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger -- a former federal law enforcement officer -- last night hosted an open, public telephone town hall focused on addressing community safety concerns and fostering dialogue between residents of Virginia's Seventh District and local law enforcement officials. Spanberger was joined by Prince William County Chief of Police Peter Newsham and Culpeper   more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger yesterday joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in urging U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to hold a vote on legislation that would ban Members of Congress from trading individual stocks, like her bipartisan Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust (TRUST) in Congress Act. Spanberger'  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, "The Response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse on March 26, 2024." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as delivered. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for calling th  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-VA) issued the statement below, following a press briefing from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on the foreign threat landscape ahead of the election. "I have long pushed the Intelligence Community to be more open with the  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released the following statement on the Senate's failure to advance the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act, Warner-cosponsored legislation that would affirm the Senate's support for protecting and restoring access to abortion and reproductive health care across the country: "In the two years since the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we have seen unpreceden  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $50,591,220 in federal funding for Fairfax County to purchase new low-emission diesel-electric hybrid buses under the county's fleet replacement plan. The funding, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will enable the Fairfax transit agency to buy and lease U.S.-built lowor no-emission vehicles, make facility and station upgra  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $50,591,220 in federal funding for Fairfax County to purchase new low-emission diesel-electric hybrid buses under the county's fleet replacement plan. The funding, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will enable the Fairfax transit agency to buy and lease U.S.-built lowor no-emission vehicles, make facility and station upgrad  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, (both D-VA) announced $1,935,757 in Public Health funding from AmeriCorpsthe federal agency for national service and volunteerismand the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This funding for Virginia will go towards building the capacity of the public health workforce and bolstering   more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) applauded the announcement that LS GreenLink is investing $681 million in Chesapeake to build a state-of-the-art facility to manufacture high-voltage subsea cables used for offshore wind farms. LS GreenLink is building the facility thanks to $100 million in tax credits that were made possible by the Infla  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) shared a video debuting a new Artificial Intelligence-generated model of her voice as it was before being impacted by her Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) condition. PSP has affected the volume and clarity of Wexton's speech, and she has relied on a text-to-speech app for public speaking engagements over the past few months including on the House floor and   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 8281, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. In advance of the vote, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) and CAPAC Civil Rights and Voting Rights Task Force Chair Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) released the following statement in opposition: "The SAVE Act is yet another effort by House   more