WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) reintroduced the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act, a bill that would provide federal employees with a 7.4 percent pay increase in calendar year 2025. Connolly and Schatz previously introduced similar legislation in the 115th, 116th, and 117th Congresses. The federal government has a history of chronic underinvestment in its most valuable asset: the federal workf more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following commentary to Labor Union News on Jan. 29, 2024: * * * Labor union numbers are dwindling. Just last week we learned union membership hit its lowest level in history. Instead of reforming to serve their members better, union bosses are manipulating the organizing process to force more workers into unions. From Starbucks to Toyota, Big Labor (with Biden's backing) is hard at work to push their so-calle more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced legislation requiring that the Pensions Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) recover, on behalf of American taxpayers, overpayments to pension funds as part of the Democrats' pension bai more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (Local 2325) President Lisa Ohta asking for more information and documents regarding the union's vote on a measure titled "Resolution Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza, an End to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, and Support for Workers' Polit more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chair Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding answers to the bungled launch, existing errors, and continued delays of full implementation of the Free Application for Federal Stude more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Virginia, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks at today's subcommittee hearing on the EPA's $27-billion green slush fund. "Over these past three years the Biden administration has made clear it is willing to push the boundaries of executive authority. "W more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined Mark Curtis for a segment on Inside West Virginia Politics to discuss the importance of securing the border and funding the government. Congresswoman Miller also highlighted her recently introduced bill, the Pregnancy Center Support Act. On Funding the Government: "For so many years [Congress has] done an omnibus bill, and we are trying very hard to do specific bills through appropriations that are more fisca more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led a bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers in pressing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on the mail delivery delays and disruptions impacting Virginians in the Richmond region. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-4), Rob Wittman (R-VA-1), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7), Jen Kiggans (R-VA-2), and Bob Good (R-VA-5) joined Senator Kaine in sending the letter. The push follows an alarming repo more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Todd Young (R-IN) and U.S. Representatives Jen Kiggans (R-VA-2), Susan Wild (D-PA-7), Buddy Carter (R-GA-1), and Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, a comprehensive law Senators Kaine and Young and Rep. Wild successfully pushed to pass to reduce and more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission Gayle Manchin's health after a car accident in Birmingham, Alabama. "On Monday, my wife Gayle and her colleague Guy Land were involved in a car accident on the way from the airport to the hotel in Birmingham, Alabama for an Appalachian Regional Commission event that was planned for today. Both were admitted to UAB Hospital and are rec more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on Jan. 28, 2024: * * * Today, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) released the following statement regarding reportsthat three American servicemembers were killed and 25 were wounded in an Iran-backed unmanned drone attack in Jordan. "I am both sad and angry learning about the death of three servicemembers and the injury of 25 in Jordan. "My prayers are with their families and friends. Make no mistake: this attack is not an isolated incident. For months, Ame more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger this week joined bicameral legislation -- named in honor of the late U.S. Representative A. Donald McEachin (D-VA-04) -- to expand community, tribal, and individual protections related to environmental justice. Named in honor of the U.S. House bill's original sponsor, the A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice For All Act would be a major step forward toward addressing the disproportionate adverse human healt more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger -- a Member of the U.S. House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force -- yesterday joined 122 colleagues in urging U.S. House Republican leadership to work with Democrats to prevent gun violence. In 2023, more than 43,000 Americans died from gun violence, and more than 650 mass shootings devastated communities across Virginia and across the United States. The U.S. gun homicide rate is 26 times higher than that of ot more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2024: Today, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that West Virginia University Research Corporation and the National Energy Technology Laboratory, located in Morgantown, will receive grants through the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office to research  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, introduced legislation requiring that the Pensions Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) recover, on behalf of American taxpa more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Over the last year, the Ways and Means Committee held numerous hearings on the State of the American Economy to gather feedback from workers, small business owners, and families about the challenges they are facing in the Biden economy. During a series of hearings held in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Georgia, small business owners testified again and again to the fact that extending proven, pro-growth tax pol more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) pressed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on the mail delivery delays and disruptions impacting Virginians in the Richmond region. The push follows an alarming report that the Richmond VA Medical Center recently received hundreds of colon cancer test samples via USPS that are unusable because they exceed the 15-day window the samples were valid for. Some samples date as far back as mid-2023. In their letter,  more PR