CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2023: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that Marshall University will receive $4.5 million through the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)'s Employment and Training Administration to establish an apprenticeship initiative through Apprenticeship Works. The funding is made possible by a Congressionally Directed Spendin more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Miller (R-WV) released the Families First legislative package which consists of four bills reintroduced in the House of Representatives: Helping Households and Neighbors Distribute Services (HANDS) for Families Act, Community Mentors for Moms Act, the Working Families Childcare Access Act, and the Targeting Child Care Funds Based on Poverty Act. "I have made protecting families a top priority in Congress and with the reintroduction of t more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH) introduced the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act. Currently, fentanyl and fentanyl analogues temporarily fall under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) due to a temporary scheduling order that runs through Dec. 31, 2024. Due to the increase in overdose deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, this bill will address the permanent scheduling of fen more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (TNSrpt) -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and other colleagues in introducing the Improving Health Insurance Affordability Act to lower health care costs and expand access to health insurance for millions of Americans. The American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act expanded the Affordable Care Act's enhanced subsidies to help lower health care pre more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2023: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that Marshall University will receive $4.5 million through the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration to establish an apprenticeship initiative through Apprenticeship Works. "West Virginians are some of the hardest working people you'll ever meet, and I'm pleased Marshall more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2023: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of the bipartisan Chance to Compete Act of 2023 (H.R. 159), a bill introduced by Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) that ensures government agencies are equipped with the tools to provide objective, skills-based assessments to evaluate job candidat more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and 32 Democratic colleagues in reintroducing legislation to regulate assault weapons. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture, and import of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and other high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. This includes the gun used by a sho more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and 32 Democratic colleagues in reintroducing legislation to regulate assault weapons. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture, and import of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and other high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. This includes the gun used by a shooter on  more PR