CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) applauded the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) recent circumvention findings to protect domestic hardwood plywood producers from unfair Chinese import practices. The findings concluded that these imports illegally circumvented U.S. antidumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) orders by using components primarily manufactured in China to complete the products in Vietnam. In March, S more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Commerce's affirmative decisions on a hardwood plywood antidumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) case. Specifically, the ruling found that imports of certain hardwood plywood products completed in Vietnam using components primarily manufactured in China circumvented the antidumping duty (AD) and count more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $898,443 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three West Virginia research initiatives. The funding will support two projects at West Virginia University (WVU), including research on nitrogen emissions in forest environments and computational imagery in space, as well as a project to expand access to STEM researc more PR

INSTITUTE, West Virginia, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) visited West Virginia State University (WVSU) for a town hall with students, local officials and community leaders on broadband deployment and enhancement in West Virginia. Following the town hall, Senator Manchin participated in a roundtable discussion with WVSU leadership to learn more about the University's plans for a new School of Agriculture. "It was great to be in Institute tod more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news on Aug. 8, 2023: Today, Congressman Joe Neguse (D-CO), Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Wildfire Caucus and Ranking Member of the United States House Subcommittee on Federal Lands, introduced the Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to increase firefighter pay - bolstering recruitment, retention, and well-being, which will improve wildfire readiness, alongside Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: Rep. Mark Green joined Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Education and Workforce Committee Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), and other House Republican Members in urging the Department of Education to reverse guidance blocking federal funding for school archery and hunting courses. Green said, "I will not sit idly by while President Biden levels an attack on shooting sports because of his antipathy towards th more PR

WOODBRIDGE, Virginia, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: The nonpartisan Common Ground Committee (CGC) once again ranked U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger as the most bipartisan Member of Congress from Virginia -- and the second-highest bipartisan lawmaker in the country. The CGC's latest Common Ground Scorecard gave Spanberger a score of 100 out of 100 points, putting her in the top one-half of one percent of all elected officials for finding common ground with her colleagues on both sides  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 8, 2023: U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai to provide more clarity into his company's deployment of Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot currently being tested in health care settings. In a letter, Sen. Warner expressed concerns about reports of inaccuracies in the technology, and called on Google to increase transparency, protect pat more PR