WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry released the following testimony by Larry Hopkins, Region III chair on the Executive Board of the American Sheep Industry Association, immediate past chairman of the National Turkey Federation, from a March 4, 2025, hearing entitled "The State of the Livestock Industry: Producer Perspectives": * * * Chairman Mann, Ranking Member Costa, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to spe  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Capito Joins Effort to Protect American Energy from Eco-terrorists WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a group of her Republican Senate colleagues in introducing the Safe and Secure Transportation of American Energy Act, legislation led by U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) that aims to protect American energy from eco-terrorists. Current federal law   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Capito Votes to Pass HALT Fentanyl Act WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today voted to pass the Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) Fentanyl Act, legislation she co-sponsored that would make permanent the temporary classification of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs as Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Drug overdoses, largely driven by fentanyl  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Capito, Duckworth, Collins, Shaheen Introduce Bipartisan Resolution to Honor Girl Scouts of America WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)--co-chairs of the Girl Scouts' Honorary Troop Capitol Hill--introduced a bipartisan resolution to recognize the 113th birthday of the Girl Scouts  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Chairman Capito Votes Yes on Fotouhi and Szabo, Nominations Favorably Reported by EPW Committee WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today voted to advance the nominations of David Fotouhi to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Aaron Szabo to be Assistant  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Rep. Riley M. Moore, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Moore Introduces Stop CCP VISAs Act Washington, D.C. - Congressman Riley M. Moore has just introduced new, groundbreaking legislation to halt the issuance of student visas to Chinese nationals. The Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act (Stop CCP VISAs Act) comes on the heels of several cases where Chinese students have been caught sp  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance released the following testimony by Knife Rights Inc, Chairman Doug Ritter from a March 4, 2025, hearing entitled "The Right to Self Defense": * * * Chairman Biggs, Ranking Member McBath, and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify about the Knife Owners' Protection Act or "KOPA". This bill is a commonsense criminal justice reform solution that would protect law-abiding   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Miller, Colleagues Send Letter to U.S. Department of Commerce to Revisit Regulations on Hardwood Imports Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) and Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Ben Cline (R-VA), Rudy Yakym (R-IN), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) sent a letter to the United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, asking   more