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U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is cheering the completion of a project she has supported for the past decade. Capito has unwaveringly championed the Mountain Valley Pipeline throughout its tumultuous development. “Sen. Capito has consistently supported the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, has fought to ensure it becomes operational and is looking forward to the boost it will provide for American energy producers, workers and consumers once it is in service,” said a... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and her colleagues introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate June 6 as National Naloxone Awareness Day.  Sponsored by U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and cosponsored by Sens. Capito and Ed Markey (D-MA), and others, the resolution recognizes that naloxone is a safe and effective medication that can reverse opioid overdoses.  “Naloxone is an important tool in our battle against the opioid epidemic and has become an effective treatment that saves lives from... Read More

A grant of more than $2.3 million will help a local university increase the numbers of West Virginia students training to become science, technology, engineering and math teachers and help them stay in the state. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Related Agencies (CJS), announced the grant Monday from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Concord University to serve the national need of increasing and... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Related Agencies (CJS), announced a grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) to Concord University to serve the national need of increasing and retaining STEM teachers. “In order for the United States to have a next generation workforce, we must invest in students early,” Senator Capito said. “I was proud to secure this grant for Concord University to help create a... Read More

Funding is coming to one of our local universities with the goal of preparing the next generation of STEM teachers in the Mountain State. Senator Shelley Moore Capito announcing that Concord University is set to receive grant monies from the National Science Foundation to increase and retain STEM educators in our communities. The grant totals more than $2 million. Through this funding, the home of the Mountain Lions will provide an online Master of Arts in Teaching curriculum and mentorship... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Preston County Public Service District (PSD) for a water infrastructure project. This award, which was secured through a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) request made solely by Capito in Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24), will provide funding for the... Read More

On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Coal Alliance joined the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), American Petroleum Institute (API), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and dozens of other organizations in supporting legislation to challenge regulations intended to shutter American power plants. U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) joined a large group of their Congressional colleagues to file a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval in... Read More

West Virginia is eligible for nearly $46 million in federal aid from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to fight the opioid crisis through its State Opioid Response (SOR) program, according to a statement Friday by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. According to recent provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drug overdoses nationally fell from 111,029 in 2022 to... Read More

West Virginia is eligible for nearly $46 million in federal aid to battle the opioid epidemic this year, according to U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito. The federal aid will come from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to fight the opioid crisis through the State Opioid Response (SOR) program, officials said. SAMHSA SOR funding includes resources to ensure Naloxone is in the hands of those most likely to witness an... Read More

In remarks yesterday morning before a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) called on the Biden Administration to explain a $50 million grant the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded to the Climate Justice Alliance, a group, she said, that appears to be focused less on protecting the environment than promoting positions that most Americans would find extreme. “They are anti-police, anti-military, anti-Semitic,” Capito said of the Alliance, which... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) on June 5 led dozens of their colleagues in proposing a bicameral resolution to stop the Biden administration from shutting down American power plants. “This Congressional Review Act resolution allows Congress to step in and reverse the Biden administration’s efforts to practically eliminate our reliable power generation by 2032,” said Rep. Balderson. The congressman sponsored House Joint Resolution 163 alongside 138... Read More

A Greenbrier County commercialization center is among three entities that will benefit from federal funding announced Friday to help support business incubation, economic revitalization efforts, and education programs in the state. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced funding awards from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Small Business Administration (SBA) for the Greenbrier Valley County Economic Development Corporation (GVEDC),... Read More

On Thursday, dozens of energy organizations rallied support behind Congressional action to block plans to close American power plants. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), American Petroleum Institute (API), American Electric Power (AEP), Buckeye Power, Duke Energy, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, came out in favor of actions by U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) to pass a Congressional... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., questioned a Federal Highway Administration this week about a federal decision that she says has set back completion of the Corridor H highway by a year. During a Senate hearing Wednesday, Capito, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, asked FHWA Administrator Shailen Bhatt about the re-designation of a segment of the Corridor H construction project. “I want to ask you a specific West Virginia question to begin, and this is... Read More

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., joined U.S. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and U.S. Senator Peter Welch, D-Vt., Wednesday in introducing the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2024. The proposed legislation would reauthorize critical reentry grant programs from the Second Chance Act of 2008, which was most recently reauthorized during the Trump Administration as part of the First Step Act in 2018, including services and... Read More

Lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced a resolution Wednesday to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently finalized power plant rule.  Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, introduced resolutions of disapproval against the rule in their respective chambers using the Congressional Review Act, which gives lawmakers the ability to legislatively undo a federal agency’s final rule.   The EPA rule seeks to aggressively limit greenhouse gas emissions... Read More

West Virginia’s Senators are weighing in on a national conversation surrounding contraception access after a test vote for the “Right to Contraception Act” fell short of the 60 votes that would be needed for the bill to pass the Senate. The bill, S.4381, would legally protect access to contraception, which it defines as “an action taken to prevent pregnancy, including the use of contraceptives or fertility-awareness-based methods and sterilization procedures.” Fertility-awareness-based methods... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito is leading 43 other Senators in introducing a formal challenge to the Biden administration’s regulations intended to shut down American power plants through a Congressional Review Act joint resolution of disapproval. The resolution, issued June 5, comes after the Environmental Protection Agency issued its final rules that impose what the Senators call unrealistic emissions requirements on existing coal-fired power plants and newly constructed gas-fired power... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) co-sponsored the Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act, legislation led by U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), that aims to promote access to and availability of safe and effective contraception for women and families. This comes a day before Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) held a “show vote” on the Senate floor on partisan and extreme legislation designed to mislead and invoke fear in the American public. “Despite the... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the senior Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt why his agency reclassified Corridor H from Wardensville to the Virginia state line as a major project.  Capito said the change may have delayed the project a year. The threshold for a major project is $500 million, and the segment in question is budgeted at $475 million. Bhatt explained that other costs, including utility relocation and... Read More