WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Leaders of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC), and the House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting information on the disturbing trend of  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Leaders of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC), and the House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting information on the disturbing trend of bomb threats  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a committee hearing to examine bipartisan recycling and composting draft legislation. Below is the opening statement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOFpiuFDpk) of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), as prepared for delivery. "Thank you, Chairman Carper. And I thank the witnesses for be more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following opening statement on Feb. 2, 2022: * * * The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a committee hearing to examine bipartisan recycling and composting draft legislation. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), as prepared for delivery. "Thank you, Chairman Carper. And I thank the witnesses for being here with us today. "A lot of what the chairman has said in his opening statement is mirrored in m more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Benjamin Cline, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Ben Cline (VA-06) was joined by Representatives Morgan Griffith (VA-09), Bob Good (VA-05), Rob Wittman (VA-01), Jeff Duncan (SC-03), Rodney Davis (IL-13), and Chip Roy (TX-21) in introducing H.R. 6534, the Stop Arduous Vaccine Enforcement (SAVE) Act, which would prohibit organ transplant centers from denying an individual from receiving or donating an organ solely based on whether he or she is vaccinated against COVID-19. This legislation com more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and leaders of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC) and Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) in sending a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting information on the disturbing trend of bomb threats agai more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to Democrats' so-called America Competes Act, a bill that fails to protect Americans from the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) malign actions or to empower American job creators and workers. Republican Leader Foxx's Remarks: "Democrats' China bill will weake more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2022: Rep. Elaine Luria, House Armed Service Committee Vice Chair, urged TRICARE today to increase access to free COVID-19 tests for active-duty military personnel and their families. Unlike private insurance or other health care plans that are required to cover COVID-19 tests without additional restrictions, TRICARE beneficiaries still lack free and accessible tests that are covered and without limitations. "As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, w more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following remarks on Feb. 2, 2022: Today, during a Ways and Means Committee hearing titled, "America's Mental Health Crisis," Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) shed light on the negative impact COVID-19 lockdowns have on people struggling with mental health or substance abuse. Between April 2020 and April 2021, there were more than 1,600 drug overdose deaths in West Virginia and 100,000 drug overdose deaths nationwide, an increase of 28.5 percent from the same period in the  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following letter on Feb. 1, 2022: To: The Honorable Merrick Garland, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530 Dear Attorney General Garland: We write to you today at the beginning of Black History Month about the disturbing trend of bomb threats and violence against our nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). For th more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) joined Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC) as well as Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC) in sending a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting information on the disturbing trend of bomb threats against Historically Black Colleges more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: The House Committee on Education and Labor unveiled a new Multiemployer Pension Rescue Tracker to highlight the hard-earned pensions saved and businesses protected under Congressional Democrats' and President Biden's American Rescue Plan Act. The multiemployer pension crisis - which was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic - threatened to strip more than a million retirees of the pensio more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the final group of Afghan nationals temporarily housed at Fort Pickett in Nottoway County as part of Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) departed the base. "When I visited Fort Pickett in September -- not long after the arrival of the first evacuees, the experience was surreal. In the heart of Vi more PR

STERLING, Virginia, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) touted a comprehensive new guide from the Biden Administration to help Virginia localities navigate all of the historic investments under the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This guidebook, available here, highlights how local communities can take full advantage of urgently-needed infrastructure funding for road maintenance, expanded public transit, airport upgrades, and othe more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and David Trone (D-MD-06) today announced that their legislation to help curtail the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States will be considered as an amendment for a bill the U.S. House will vote on later this week focused on strengthening America's economic and national security. According to a Pew study released last month, more Americans died from overdose in 2020 than any p more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Leaders of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC), and the House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting information on the disturbing trend of bomb threats against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Th more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing on legislative proposals to improve domestic recycling and composting programs. Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) questioned witnesses about how her draft legislation, The Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act, would address recycling accessibility in underserved areas. She also asked about how The Recycling and Composting Accountability  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing on legislative proposals to improve domestic recycling and composting programs. Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) questioned witnesses about how her draft legislation, The Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act, would address recycling accessibility in underserved areas.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, today joined a group of her colleagues to highlight the devastating consequences and costs of the ongoing crisis at the southwest border, and to urge President Joe Biden to finally act to secure the border. In President Biden's first year in office, there were roughly 2 million illegal crossings at the southwest bor more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Feb. 2, 2022: * * * U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement today: "Nothing is more important than ensuring that we protect and care for those individuals who risk their lives on our behalf. As we seek to understand the source and causes of these anomalous health incidents (AHIs), I welcome the findings and recommendations of the outside experts assembled by the intelligence co more PR