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WASHINGTON, DC (LOOTPRESS) – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced legislation to ensure that first responders and other essential community members have access to training on how to use life-saving overdose reversal drugs, like naloxone. The legislation, the Safe Response Act, invests in a critical grant program that allows states, local government entities, and Tribes to train and provide resources to first responders to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC (LOOTPRESS) — Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), announced funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority (KCEAA). This funding, which was secured through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests made solely by Senator Capito, will be used to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC (LOOTPRESS) – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced legislation to ensure that first responders and other essential community members have access to training on how to use life-saving overdose reversal drugs, like naloxone. The legislation, the Safe Response Act, invests in a critical grant program that allows states, local government entities, and Tribes to train and provide resources to first responders to... Read More

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc., has been awarded funding for eight projects at WVU Medicine Children’s, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI), and the WVU Health Sciences Center. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), announced the more than $20 million in Congressionally Directed Spending for the projects from the... Read More

Shelley Moore Capito joined a group of senators supporting the Safe Response Act, which looks to provide first responders with access to training on how to use life-saving overdose reversal drugs. The bill would reauthorize a grant program that funds programs that teach EMTs, police officers, and firefighters how to use drugs like naloxone. In a statement supporting the bill, Senator Capito noted the rise of fentanyl related deaths. “With deaths from fentanyl on the rise in West Virginia and... Read More

Charleston, W.Va. – Funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will go to Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Health Education and Research Institute, Inc., to support telenursing software upgrades, telemedicine expansion, and cardiology services integration. These awards, which were secured through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests made by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, will be used to expand CAMC’s telenursing program with new equipment and software,... Read More

Last Thursday, September 21, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito set foot on a Morgan County highway project that she supported and designated funds for more than a decade ago when she was a Congresswoman. Capito came to Berkeley Springs in the afternoon between a session of the Senate and stops in Martinsburg. Several West Virginia Division of Highways officials briefed Sen. Capito on construction details about the 3.4-mile, four-lane highway that is being built to the east of Berkeley Springs.... Read More

On Sunday, September 24, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) hosted an Academy Day event at Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, W.Va. for West Virginia students interested in learning more about opportunities at the U.S. service academies and available Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) scholarships. During the event, various service academy admissions representatives and local ROTC scholarship program representatives were available to answer questions and members of Senator... Read More

CHARLESTON — On Monday, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Health Education and Research Institute, Inc. to support telenursing software upgrades, telemedicine expansion and cardiology services integration. These awards, which were secured through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests made by Capito, will be used to expand CAMC’s robust telenursing program... Read More

SISSONVILLE, W.Va. — Some Kanawha County middle school students are feeling more confident to become whatever they want to be when they grow up. Sissonville Middle School fifth grader Ivy said it was inspiring to hear from U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito during her Girls Rise Up event at her school Monday morning. “It was great. I usually don’t speak up for myself and I feel a lot more confident,” Ivy said. Ivy was one of a number of fifth grade girls at Sissonville to participate in Capito’s... Read More

A bipartisan group of senators are joining the ranks of Americans picking up paddles and playing the fastest growing sport in the country — pickleball. Once a week, the group sets aside politics to play for a while. For Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., those moments of human connection sow seeds for better communication. "It's kind of hard to treat people in an untoward way if you've been out on pickleball court, on a mountain bike trail, spent time with them," he told NPR. "We need more of that." The... Read More

SISSONVILLE, WV (LOOTPRESS) – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), today brought her West Virginia Girls Rise Up program to Sissonville Middle School to promote female empowerment, education, fitness, and self-confidence. Joining Senator Capito in hosting the Girls Rise Up event were West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Beth Walker and Justice Haley Bunn. Fifth grade female students participated in the program, where they had the chance to hear from the women on their personal... Read More

Boone Memorial Hospital in Boone County, West Virginia, has received additional funding for its new wellness center that is being built to improve healthcare services for residents of Boone, Lincoln, Logan, and Kanawha counties. The hospital had already secured a $14.3 million investment from USDA Rural Development, and now an additional $3 million is being provided by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services. Ray Harrell, the General Council and Chief External Affairs Officer of Boone... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – West Virginia’s first female U.S. Senator is working to inspire the next generation of women leaders. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito traveled to Charleston on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023 to host a “West Virginia Girls Rise Up” event. Capito launched the initiative in 2015 with the goal to empower young women through education, fitness and self confidence. “I want West Virginia young girls to aspire to be anything they can be, whether it’s to be a U.S. senator or a justice... Read More

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — She's West Virginia's first female U.S. Senator, and Shelley Moore Capito is helping support the next generation of women leaders with her initiative 'Girls Rise Up'. "I thought, Hey, what would I want my daughter to hear, and I want her to hear, Hey, I saw your mom at Sissonville Middle School, and I'm going to run for county commission or I'm going to own my own business," Capito said. Since 2015, Capito has brought "Girls Rise Up" to schools across West... Read More

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (WV News) — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R.W.Va., hosted an Academy Day event Sunday at Bridgeport High School for West Virginia students interested in learning more about opportunities at the U.S. service academies and available Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarships. During the event, various service academy admissions representatives and local ROTC scholarship program representatives were available to answer questions and members of Capito’s staff provided... Read More

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — US Senator Shelley Moore Capito was in the Eastern Panhandle last week. One of her stops was in Morgan County to survey the progress on the long-awaited US Rt. 522 Bypass: (Senator Capito visited the 522 Bypass construction site last week to check in on the progress. Capito says she’s been involved in this project for quite some time and worked to secure funding for it through her role on the Appropriations Committee. Money from the infrastructure law, which she was... Read More

Washington D.C. (WTRF) – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Washington D.C. this past week to get more money to continue to war against Russia. President Biden is pushing Congress to approve another 24 billion dollars in military aid. If approved, that would bring the total amount that the U.S. has sent to Ukraine since the war began to 135 billion dollars. West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito supports this plan, saying that any effort to weaken Putin and Russia will be... Read More

DANVILLE, W.Va. — More funding has come for a new, state-of-the-art medical clinic that’s developing in Boone County, which will better serve the health needs for residents of Boone, Lincoln, Logan, and Kanawha counties. Boone Memorial Hospital’s General Counsel and Chief External Affairs Officer Ray Harrell told MetroNews that in addition to the $14.3 million investment from USDA Rural Development to get the new Boone Memorial wellness center off the ground, an additional $3 million is coming... Read More

All four of West Virginia’s federally elected officials called on the national Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services this week to implement a new treatment model they believe will help support hospitals and first responders struggling with ongoing staff shortages. The treat-in-place model the legislators are proposing would allow emergency medical services to receive insurance payments for certain calls where a patient is brought somewhere other than a hospital for treatment. “There are... Read More