WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Virginia, chair of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. E.T., Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, will hold the Subcommittee's biannual hearing to assess implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and hear from the Federal Chief Information Officer about the Biden Administration's f more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: Rep. Don Beyer today released a new report from the Department of Defense (DOD), Review and Assessment of Mitigation of Military Helicopter Noise. The report, which was completed as a result of Beyer's amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) FY 2021, included recommendations long sought by Beyer and other regional lawmakers to mitigate helicopter noise in the National Capital Region. "The recommendations in this report ref more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on July 22, 2021: U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08) and John Garamendi (CA-03), and Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Jeffrey A. Merkley (D-OR), co-chairs of the Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, led 17 of their colleagues in calling on President Joseph R. Biden to actively guide the formation of the Department of Defense-led Nuclear Posture Review. The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will be part of an integrated National Defense Strategy that more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Secretary Cardona addressing the heightened importance of ensuring a smooth transition for student loan borrowers impacted by the recent announcements that two major student loan servicers are ending their federal contracts. In the letter, Foxx writes: "There are now near more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) wrote a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in response to the agency including divisive critical race theory source material in its COVID-19 school reopening guidance. In the letter, Foxx writes: "Combating racism in our schools and society is important, but dividi more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) today announced the Tri-State Airport Authority in Huntington, West Virginia has been awarded a $750,000 Fiscal Year 2019 Small Community Air Service Development Program (SCASDP) grant from the United States Department of Transportation. The grant will be used to recruit, initiate, and support new air service to Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Washington-Dulles International Airport (I more PR

HINTON, West Virginia, July 24 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) made two stops in southern West Virginia today, highlighting the positive economic impacts of the newly redesignated New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. First, Senator Capito spoke at a ceremony at the Sandstone Visitors Center where she helped unveil National Park and Preserve signs that will be erected along interstates and highways throughout the area. She join more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on July 22, 2021: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, yesterday participated in a hearing on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in physical infrastructure. HIGHLIGHTS: LACK OF CYBERSECURITY TRAINING: "Is there any cybersecurity training that goes along in obtaining those [water operator] licenses? So the more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, yesterday joined PBS NewsHour to discuss the latest on various infrastructure and spending proposals in Congress. HIGHLIGHTS: ON BIPARTISAN GROUP/INFRASTRUCTURE LATEST: "I think that the efforts that the bipartisan group has put forward has been very straightforward and very honest, very narrow in terms of  more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 24 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Representative David McKinley (R-W.Va.) urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to address the elevated levels of lead found in the drinking water of homes served by the Clarksburg Water System. "We were concerned to learn of the elev more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 24 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $152,649 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for ecology research at West Virginia University. This project studies the interaction of trees and soil water in the Amazon Rainforest. The project will also create a science outreach program connecting West Virginia students to data and scientists in the Amazon rainforest. "West more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined 14 colleagues, led by Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), in calling on Senate Leadership to address the needs of Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories in ongoing infrastructure efforts. The network of 17 National Laboratories across the United States includes Morgantown's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), which is a national leader in carbo more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) joined Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and 13 of their colleagues in calling on Senate Leadership to address the needs of Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories in ongoing infrastructure efforts. The network of 17 National Laboratories across the United States advance critical missions for the Department and additional investments in restoring and modernizing National Lab infrastructure will support scientific and e more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 24 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Representative David McKinley (R-W.Va.) urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to address the elevated levels of lead found in the drinking water of homes served by the Clarksburg Water System. The letter can be read in full here. The Me more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 24 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Representative David McKinley (R-WV) urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to address the elevated levels of lead found in the drinking water of homes served by the Clarksburg Water System. The Members said in part, "We were concerned to learn of the elevated levels of lead in drinking water in certain homes in Clarksb more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 24 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Tim Scott (R-SC) reintroduced the Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2021 to expand access to credit for an estimated 45 million Americans with either no credit history or a credit history that is too scarcely populated to generate a credit score. This bipartisan legislation would permit landlords and utility and telecom providers to report on-time payments data to credit reporting agencies more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chairman and Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to help safeguard our nation's critical infrastructure networks against cybersecurity threats. The bill would require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit more PR