WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on Oct. 6, 2021: * * * Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Education Department's unilateral changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program: "Each year Americans take on more and more student debt and each year taxpayers are on the hook for more and more of it. Instead of stepping more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) requesting a public hearing by the Committee to examine the Education Department's unilateral action regarding the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. In the letter, Foxx writes: "This Committee is required to conduct rigorous oversight of the Depa more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following fact sheet: The Build Back Better Act makes a historic investment to lower the cost of child care for working families, expand the availability of high-quality child care, and raise wages for child care workers. Under the plan advanced by the Committee on Education and Labor, the typical of family of four using center-based child care could save thousands of dollars every year. The Build Back Better Act's child ca more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: The Education and Labor Committee released a new state-by-state analysis that found the Build Back Better Act could significantly lower child costs for American families in all 50 states. The Committee's analysis finds that a typical family of four using center-based child care could save thousands of dollars every year. "This is why we need to pass the Build Back Better Act," said Ch more PR

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Oct. 7 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: According to a new analysis released today by the House Committee on Education and Labor, the Build Back Better Act could save Virginia families thousands of dollars in child care costs each year. The Committee's report found that the typical Virginia family of four with one infant in full-time center-based child care would save $12,680 each year. The typical Virginia family of four with one infant and one child in full-time c more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following opening statement at an Oct. 6, 2021, oversight hearing to examine the response by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Hurricane Ida: * * * "It is good to see a familiar face here in Major General Graham, who served as Commander of the Pittsburgh District--when I was in Congress, you were my Corps leader--which covers a significant portion of my state of West Virginia. "Colonel Murphy, th more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today participated in a hearing to examine the response by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Hurricane Ida. HIGHLIGHTS: STREAMLINING PROCESSES TO GET HELP: "But what we hear from our local partners sometimes--and even FEMA in some sense--is that  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today participated in a hearing to examine the response by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Hurricane Ida. HIGHLIGHTS: STREAMLINING PROCESSES TO GET HELP: "But what we hear from our local partners sometimes--and even FEMA in some sense--is that sometime the processes to get help are so doggone complicated. And so more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, today joined a group of her colleagues in urging President Biden to finally address the ongoing southern border crisis. Senator Capito made the following remarks at a Senate GOP press conference highlighting the need to put back in place policies that deter illegal immigration and keep West Virginia's communities saf more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on Oct. 6, 2021: * * * U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the below statement following the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)'s announcement of proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process: "The proposed revisions would reverse the common-sens more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following statement on Oct. 6, 2021: * * * U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the below statement following the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)'s announcement of proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. "The proposed revisions would reverse the common-sense changes that modernized the NEPA process. Protracting the paperwork more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement applauding the U.S. Department of Education's announcement that it will begin reforming the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and bring over 550,000 public servants closer to loan forgiveness. The Department will temporarily expand eligible loans and qualifying payment plans for borrowers, take steps to eliminate b more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin led a bipartisan group of Senators in reintroducing the Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act to provide medical professionals with a limited, but consistent, level of legal protection while volunteering during federally-declared disasters. The Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 sought to protect those volunteering through non-profit agencies or government entities from litigation over possible economic damage more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,000,000 from the Department of Energy for a hydrogen research project involving the National Energy Technology Laboratory. This project will accelerate breakthroughs in emerging hydrogen leak detection technologies and support advancements in the clean hydrogen sector. "It's important for the Unite more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $800,000 from the U. S. Department Health and Human Services (HHS) Community Economic Development Program. This funding will be used by the Coalfield Development Corporation in their efforts to construct rental cabins, a conference center, a wellness center, and make improvements to a vacant dev more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) announced $1,000,000 from the Department of Energy for a hydrogen research project involving the National Energy Technology Laboratory. This project will accelerate breakthroughs in emerging hydrogen leak detection technologies and support advancements in the clean hydrogen sector. "I'm thrilled to see the Nat more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) announced $1,000,000 from the Department of Energy for a hydrogen research project involving the National Energy Technology Laboratory. This project will accelerate breakthroughs in emerging hydrogen leak detection technologies and support advanceme more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $800,000 from the U. S. Department Health and Human Services (HHS) Community Economic Development Program. This funding will be used by the Coalfield Development Corporation in their efforts to construct rental cabins, a conference center, a wellness center, and make improvements to a vacant development site d more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U. S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and U.S. Representatives David B. McKinley (R-WV) and Carol Miller (R-WV) sent a letter urging the Biden Administration to allocate additional doses of Monoclonal Antibody (mAb) treatments to West Virginia, specifically the Regeneron (REGN-COV) treatment that can be administered more easily in rural non-hospital settings. MAb treatments can help West Virginians avoid hospitalizations an more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senator Patrick Leahy in introducing legislation to restore the landmark Voting Rights Act and stop the spread of voter suppression. The legislation--the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act--is named for the late Congressman John Lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights movement, and reflects an update to legislation introduced in the last Congress. In the wake of the Supreme Court' more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2021: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senator Patrick Leahy in introducing legislation to restore the landmark Voting Rights Act and stop the spread of voter suppression. The legislation--the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act--is named for the late Congressman John Lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights movement, and reflects an update to legislation introduced in the last Congress. In the wake of the Supreme Court's  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following joint statement with Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia: * * * U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine released the following statement upon the Senate voting to confirm Jessica Aber as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) and Christopher Kavanaugh as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia (WDVA): "We are pleased the Senate has confirmed Jessica Aber and Christopher Kavanaugh to these critical positions. We were deeply impressed by their exce more PR