WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined 31 Republican colleagues in a letter - led by U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) - urging the Biden administration to address antisemitism toward Jewish children in K-12 schools amid rising rates in the aftermath of Hamas' deadly attacks against Israel. "We are deeply concerned that the Department of Education is not ensuring American K-12 sc more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- 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 Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro raising concerns about the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) methodologies and accuracy in reporting labor market conditions. Foxx's inquiry to the GAO comes as the Biden administration continues to tout the success of its econ more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- 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 Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Education and the Workforce Committee Vice Chair Mary Miller (R-IL) issued the following statement regarding a newly launched Title IX investigation into the Sun Prairie Area School District that comes after the lawmakers sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona outlining serious concerns related to the s more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Rep. Bob Good, R-Virginia, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following statement on Nov. 30, 2023: * * * Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled "Safeguarding Workers' Rights and Liberties": "The right to work in this country--free from coercion by the government--is a right enshrined in our founding documents. While s more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, issued the following news release on Nov. 30, 2023: House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks at today's hearing titled "Unmasking Challenges CDC Faces in Rebuilding Public Trust Amid Respiratory Illness Season." "Today's hearing is the first opportunity for Congress to hear testimony from Dr. Mandy Cohen since more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $109,880,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the state of West Virginia. This funding is made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and will support improving water systems and expanding access to safe drinking water across the state. "I am proud to have secured more than $109 million through the EPA and the more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for West Virginia University (WVU). The funding will support the creation of a two-phase community training program that encourages West Virginia's local produce growers to adopt the triple-wash process for their products. "West Virgin more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) spoke before the House Budget Committee to discuss their bipartisan Fiscal Stability Act. The Senators' legislation would create a bicameral fiscal commission tasked with finding legislative solutions to stabilize and decrease the national debt, which now exceeds $33.75 trillion - more than double what it was just ten years ago. "Years of fiscal irresponsibility have broug more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on the U.S. Postal Service's decision to conduct a Mail Processing Facility Review of its Charleston Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) facility. "There is absolutely no reason to move our West Virginia mail processing facility to another state. I will do everything within my power to prevent the loss of this facility. The U.S. Postal Service should reverse more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) voted to advance H.R. 6212, the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act out of the the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. H.R. 6212 included her bipartisan Expand QISET Act as an amendment. Earlier this month, Reps. Jennifer McClellan and Tom Kean, Jr. introduced the Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science, Engineering, and Technology Act, or the Expand  more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), and 24 of their colleagues in introducing the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act. This legislation will protect faith-based child welfare providers from being discriminated against for acting in accordance with their religious beliefs. It will also prohibit federal, state, and local government agencies that receive federal adop more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined the Ways and Means Committee for a markup on six tax, work and welfare, and trade bills. Congresswoman Miller spoke on the United States - Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act and the VSO Equal Tax Treatment (VETT) Act. Click HERE for video. On the United States - Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act:"Taiwan and the United States have a long and mutually beneficial relationship.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following opening remarks at a hearing on Nov. 9, 2023, entitled "To Examine the Implementation of Federal Coal Mine Land Reclamation and Abandoned Coal Mine Land Economic Revitalization Programs": * * * The Committee will come to order. For generations, coal communities across our nation have made the sacrifices and done the heaving lifting to turn our country into a global energy leader. Many of these communi more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following written testimony by Rob Rice, deputy cabinet secretary of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and director of the Division of Land Restoration, involving a hearing on Nov. 9, 2023, entitled "To Examine the Implementation of Federal Coal Mine Land Reclamation and Abandoned Coal Mine Land Economic Revitalization Programs": * * * Good morning Chairman Manchin, Ranking Member Barrasso, and members of the committee. My name is Rob Ri more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Washington, DC - Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Susan Collins' (R-ME) bipartisan resolution designating November 2023 as National Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month. In the United States, more than 1,200,000 students experienced homelessness during the 2021-2022 school year, including an estimated 13,530 in West Virginia and 4,400 in Maine. Companion legislation was introduced in the House by more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $62,362,000 in federal funding for the Virginia Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund (VCWRLF) to make clean water infrastructure upgrades across the Commonwealth. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water State Revolving Fund, a federal-state partnership that provides low-cost financing to communities for a wide range of water quality infrastructure projects, including muni more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Click here or the image above to watch Ranking Member Capito's questions. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee,participated in a full committee hearing titled, "WRDA 2024: Stakeholder Feedback on USACE Project Partnership Agreements." HIGHLIGHTS: ON OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TO PROJECT NEGOTIATIONS: RANKING MEMBER CAPITO: "When you had more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Click here or on the image above to watch Senator Capito's floor speech. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today led her Republican colleagues in highlighting the multifaceted crisis at the southern border created by President Biden's inaction, as well as the impact this crisis creates on American communities and national security, and the need for substantive  more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: **Click here or the image above to watch Senator Capito's video statement.** **Click here to download the video.** WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today announced that she is nominating 29 qualified high school seniors from 15 counties throughout West Virginia to the prestigious U.S. Military, Naval, Air Force, and Merchant Marine Academies. Nominees were selected by a board chosen by Senator Capito who reviewe more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor regarding the need to renew child care funding that recently expired and help families get the support they need. During his remarks, Kaine shared stories from a parent in Fairfax City and a provider in Blacksburg to highlight the detrimental consequences of the lack of affordable child care. Click more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), and Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Jen Kiggans (R-VA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Bobby Scott (D-VA), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), and Rob Wittman (R-VA) today welcomed the news that the Inspector General (IG) of the General Services Administration (GSA) will initiate an investigation into the site selection to relocate the new Federal Bureau of Inv more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), and Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Jen Kiggans (R-VA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Bobby Scott (D-VA), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), and Rob Wittman (R-VA) today welcomed the news that the Inspector General (IG) of the General Services Administration (GSA) will initiate an investigation into the site selection to relocate the new Federal Bur more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), and Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Jen Kiggans (R-VA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Bobby Scott (D-VA), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), and Rob Wittman (R-VA) today welcomed the news that the Inspector General (IG) of the General Services Administration (GSA) will initiate an investigation into the site selection to relocate the new F more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $62,362,000 in federal funding for the Virginia Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund (VCWRLF) to make clean water infrastructure upgrades across the Commonwealth. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water State Revolving Fund, a federal-state partnership that provides low-cost financing to communities for a wide range of water quality infrastructu more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $10,801,611.50 in federal funding to improve coastal resilience and combat sea level rise in Norfolk and Virginia's coastal communities. The funding was awarded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's National Coastal Resilience Fund (NCRF), which provides funding to restore, increase, and strengthen natural infrastructure to protect coastal communities and enhance habitats  more PR