WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (TNSrep) -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, issued the following news on Sept. 15, 2021: To commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins today and runs through October 15, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), led by Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA), and the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), led by Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), released a new report that examines the contributions of Hispanic workers to the U.S. economy. Despite being among those most aff more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today welcomed the announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that it "will initiate a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf in the western U.S.," but expressed concern that delay would lead to unnecessary deaths of the recently delisted species. Beyer led a bipartisan House delegation of 85 Representatives in July urging the Department of the Interior to revisit the Trump Administration's decision to de more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2021: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), the Chairman of Congress' Joint Economic Committee (JEC), today released a new JEC report that found 78,000 Child Tax Credit (CTC) monthly tax cut payments were sent to families in Virginia's 8th Congressional District in August, totaling $29.3 million in tax cuts for Northern Virginia families, benefitting 118,000 children. Beyer voted this afternoon in the House Committee on Ways and Means to extend the expanded Ch more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: To commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins today and runs through October 15, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), led by Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA), and the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), led by Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), released a new report that examines the contributions of Hispanic workers to the U.S. economy. Despite being among those most affected by the health and economic effects of more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today announced that the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has awarded more than $2.5 million in Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) grants for Southwest Virginia organizations. The award amounts, organizations, and purposes for the awards are: * $1,500,000 to Appalachian Community Capital for a capital access program across Central Appalachia * $1,000 more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. David McKinley, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Congressman David McKinley voted against a massive, irresponsible spending plan that will hurt families with higher prices and higher taxes, destroy energy jobs, and place America's economy at a disadvantage to China. For 48 hours over the last three days, the Energy and Commerce considered the wide-ranging package that included policies ranging from a tax on natural gas to more government-controlled health care. The bill will no more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) today announced an Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) POWER grant worth $2,500,000 to the Pocahontas County Commission for the Pocahontas County Broadband Project. The project will install 258,720 linear feet of broadband fiber bringing high-speed internet access to 1,011 households and 24 businesses in Pocahontas County. "Building up broadband is critical to the revitalization of West Virginia more PR

STERLING, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) released a new report from the Joint Economic Committee today estimating that 103,000 Child Tax Credit monthly tax cut payments were sent to families in Virginia's 10th District in August. A total of $37.7 million in tax cuts went back in the pockets of hardworking VA-10 families. Monthly payments for September were delivered via direct deposit or check beginning yesterday. Statewide, 934,000 monthl more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a bipartisan group of her colleagues this week in introducing a bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 13 American service members who lost their lives during the terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 26. "Nothing can replace the 13 men and women we lost on August 26," Senator Capito said. "They were young sons and daughters who raised their hands, answered the call, and  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,238,860 from the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to support the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security's Justice and Community Services section. This funding was made available through the OVW's STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecuto more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,300,000 in Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants to foster economic development and support the preservation of historic buildings in West Virginia. "West Virginia has a heritage that we are incredibly proud of," Senator Capito said. "That's why it's important that we do all we can to preserve and maintain  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced 14 awards totaling $12,356,197 from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) program for organizations across West Virginia. The POWER program  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced 14 awards totaling $12,356,197 from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) program for organizations across West Virginia. The POWER program is a congressionally funded initiative that targets federal resources more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting an exception "to allow the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to proceed with immediate disinterment of the American service members who died in the 1945 Tokyo military prison fire and remain buried as Unknowns more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,300,000 in Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants to foster economic development and support the preservation of historic buildings in West Virginia. "These awards are great news f more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced 14 awards totaling $12,356,197 from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) program for organizations across West Virginia. The POWER program is a congressionally funded initiative that targets federal resources to help commun more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting an exception "to allow the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to proceed with immediate disinterment of the American servicemembers who died in the 1945 Tokyo military prison fire and remain buried as Unknowns at the Manila Ame more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), cosponsored a bipartisan bill to award a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal to the 13 American servicemembers who lost their lives during the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 26th . The bicameral legislation was  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), cosponsored a bipartisan bill to award a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal to the 13 American servicemembers who lost their lives during the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 26th . The bicameral legislation was first introduced more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), along with Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA-02), sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today requesting that she direct the National Park Service to accept a 40-acre donation of land that would enhance and protect the Fort Monroe National Monument. "Despite Fort Monroe's significance to American history and exceptional recreational value, the monument, as it exists today, in more PR