WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) has wasted no time in holding the Biden administration accountable, particularly when she sees agencies like the Department of Labor (DOL) or the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tipping the scales in favor of union bosses at the expense of American workers. Republican Leader Foxx has now se more PR

HENRICO, Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Less than one month after reaching $19 million returned, U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today announced that her office has now surpassed $20 million in casework funds returned to constituents in Virginia's Seventh District -- including nearly $10 million since the start of 2022. Casework dollars are secured and returned by fighting for backlogged benefits and advocating for fair treatment on behalf of constituents ha more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) sent a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) asking what steps his administration has taken to remove convicted offenders from employment in North Carolina Public Schools. * * * Governor Cooper, Recent national press reports have highlighted that a public school counselor in Fairfax, Virginia, was allowed to keep his job after a conviction for soliciting a minor. Situations like this must never be allowed to happen in  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: On Thursday afternoon, Education and Labor Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the disastrous consequences of President Biden's student loan cancellation scheme. Video and key excerpts below: We're talking real money... "This [is] a hair-brained scheme, that the President has come up with to buy votes. ... The C more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. A. Donald McEachin, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) commemorated Women's Equality Day by vowing to fight back against extreme Republican efforts to further restrict access to reproductive health care and birth control in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling. "Today should be a celebration of freedom and equality. Unfortunately, right-wing efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade have resulted in women today having less free more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Parents are sick of being called "domestic terrorists" and "extremists" by the Left, but they are even more sick of their children not getting the education they need. That's why Republicans are proposing solutions that promote educational freedom, increase transparency, protect students from a radical leftist agenda, safeguard women's sports, and promote free spe more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following statement on Aug. 26, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed designating two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as "hazardous substances" under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). "I continue to be a strong, leading prop more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the Grafton-Taylor County Health Department will receive $75,000 to support the purchase of equipment and furnishings for their newly constructed building. The funding is made possible by a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) request secured by Senator Manchin and is funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Aug. 26, 2022: * * * U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a statement after a court released a redacted version of the affidavit that prompted federal law enforcement to search Mar-a-Lago. "It appears, based on the affidavit unsealed this morning, that among the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were some of our most sensitive intelligence - which is one reason the Senate Intelligence Committee h more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $24,224,571 for the state of West Virginia through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) FY 2022 Preparedness Grant Programs and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This fund more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 27 -- 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.), announced West Virginia will receive $25 million to plug, remediate and reclaim 160 orphaned wells throughout the state. These projects will be funded through an initial national award of $560 million from the Department of the Interior to address and clean up orphaned oil and gas wells on Federal lands across the United States. This funding was made possibl more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $24,224,571 for the state of West Virginia through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) FY 2022 Preparedness Grant Programs and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This funding will hel more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) announced West Virginia will receive $25 million to plug, remediate and reclaim 160 orphaned wells throughout the state. These projects will be funded through an initial national award of $560 million from the Department of the Interior to address and clean up orphaned oil and gas we more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2022: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) announced West Virginia will receive $25 million to plug, remediate and reclaim 160 orphaned wells throughout the state. These projects will be funded through an initial national award of $560 million from the Department of the Inte more PR