WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: Ahead of President Biden's State of the Union address, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a bipartisan, bicameral group to urge the president to announce that he will restore the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to a cabinet-level position. Elevating the post would enable ONDCP to more effectively coordinate drug control efforts across federal agencies and enhance the Biden administration more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today made several stops in Kanawha County where she met with community leaders, lawmakers, students, and a military family. First, Senator Capito delivered remarks at the West Virginia Association of Counties (WVACo)'s Legislative Meeting. During her address, Senator Capito spoke about the vital role county governments have throughout West Virginia, efforts to c more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2023: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) and House Committee on Ways and Means held their first field hearing on the State of the American Economy: Appalachia in Petersburg, West Virginia. Congresswoman Miller welcomed the Ways and Means Committee to West Virginia and highlighted how small businesses and families had been forgotten by the Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress. Congresswoman Miller discussed how communities, specifica more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2023: On Friday, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Representative Jeff Duncan (R-SC) led 126 House Republicans in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in the upcoming case considering the Biden administration's student loan bailout, which exploits legislation drafted in the wake of September 11, 2001, meant to assist service members and veterans. Chairwoman Foxx said: "The B more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) announced that his guest to Tuesday's Presidential State of the Union Address will be J. Sanders Henderson, III. A Saltville, Virginia resident, Henderson is currently a member of the School Board of Washington County. "I'm honored Sanders Henderson has accepted my invitation to be my guest at this year's State of the Union Address," said Griffith. "Mr. Henderson has been a staple in the education field for more than t more PR

PETERSBURG, West Virginia, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: At the first hearing of the Ways and Means Committee under a new Republican majority, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) spoke about how the Committee and Congress must put the interests of American workers first by hearing directly from Americans about their struggles and their ideas to improve the lives and livelihoods of their families and communities after two years of crisis under one-party Democr more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Mike Braun (R-IN), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) wrote a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging the Secretary to reconsider adding copper as an official U.S. Geological Survey Critical Mineral. Recognizing copper -- a mineral vital to our energy and national more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor to highlight the Promoting Employment and Lifelong Learning (PELL) Act, which expands career-focused, skills-based education programs. Chairwoman Foxx's Remarks: "The college-for-all mentality failed our country's students. "It failed students who paid or borrowed for degrees with no return on their invest more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following commentary to Ogden Newspapers on Feb. 6, 2023: * * * In an op-ed published today across Ogden Newspapers, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) wrote about President Biden's inflation economy price hikes, and how the damage is being felt by middle class families in West Virginia and across America. "In reality, families in West Virginia and across our nation continue to struggle because the policies and priorities of the Biden adminis more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Mike Braun (R-IN), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Mitt Romney (R-UT), wrote a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging the Secretary to reconsider adding copper as an official U.S. Geological Survey Critical Mineral.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2023: U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Garrett Graves (R-LA-06) are leading the bipartisan, national effort to eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). Spanberger's Social Security Fairness Act would eliminate both the WEP and the GPO, two provisions of the Social Security Act that unfairly reduce or eliminate Social Security benefits for millions of Americans who have  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2023: * * * Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Congressman Joe Wilson (D-SC), Co-Chairs of the House Caucus on U.S.-Turkiye Relations, released the following statement regarding the devastating earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria. "On behalf of the Caucus on U.S.-Turkiye Relations and Turkish Americans, we extend our heartfelt condolences in the wake of yesterday's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple powerful aftershocks th more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on Feb. 6, 2023: U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine urged the Virginia General Assembly to protect marriage equality by repealing the ban on same-sex marriage that remains in Virginia's constitution. In 2006, over then-Governor Kaine's strong objection, Virginia passed a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges overrides Virginia's ban by requiring all states to issue ma more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on Feb. 6, 2023: U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine urged the Virginia General Assembly to protect marriage equality by repealing the ban on same-sex marriage that remains in Virginia's constitution. In 2006, over then-Governor Kaine's strong objection, Virginia passed a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges overrides Virginia's ban by requiring all states to issue m more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on Feb. 6, 2023: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, questioning the company about recently released documents revealing that the company knew, as early as 2018, that hundreds of thousands of developers in what Facebook classified as "high-risk jurisdictions" including the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Russia had access to user data that c more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) announced that he will bring Mrs. Marguerite Bailey Young of Fredericksburg, Virginia as his guest for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address. Mrs. Young - a 94 year-old widow and retired school system administrator - relies on several daily medicines, including two types of insulin. Like many seniors across the country, Mrs. Young has seen the cost of her insulin drop dramatically thanks to a provision in the Inflat more PR