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As the U.S. faces China’s unprecedented military buildup, conflicts involving our partners in two theaters, and resurgent terror threats, it is clear that the world today is more dangerous than most Americans have experienced in their lifetimes. Yet, as the U.S. Department of Defense pursues modernization programs to retain our competitive edge, we cannot afford to forget about vulnerabilities to the systems that the American people use every day. The cyber domain could make the difference... Read More

Last week, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, participated in a Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to review the president’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and for the National Science Foundation (NSF). During the hearing, Capito questioned NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on the importance and future of West Virginia’s... Read More

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., recently introduced bipartisan legislation to bolster training for primary care providers so they can better diagnose Alzheimer’s and other dementia and deliver high-quality, person-centered care in community-based settings. The Accelerating Access to Dementia & Alzheimer’s Provider Training (AADAPT) Act would provide Alzheimer’s and dementia education and training to more primary care providers, improving detection,... Read More

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works committee asked questions about grants, private funding, support for rural communities and diverting food scraps during a May 22 hearing on local efforts to improve reuse and recycling. The committee, chaired by Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, brought Elizabeth Biser, the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality; Susan Fife-Ferris, the director of solid waste planning and program management for... Read More

Communities throughout the U.S. are getting boost to recycling infrastructure and education improvements due to recent U.S. EPA funding. Speakers at a Senate hearing last week urged lawmakers to use that momentum to support more long-term efforts to raise recycling rates. Speakers who testified at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing May 22 applauded recent projects funded by the U.S. EPA’s Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grants, a total of $275 million in funding... Read More

A bipartisan, bicameral bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) that requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a project to prevent and cure Parkinson’s disease is now headed to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.  The U.S. Senate on May 23 passed the Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act, H.R. 2365, which the U.S. House of Representatives approved in December 2023.  “The Dr. Emmanuel... Read More

U.S. Senators Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.VA., along with U.S. Representatives Carol Miller, R-W.Va. and Alex Mooney, R-W.Va. wrote a letter to Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Carole Johnson, urging HRSA to adequately include terrain factors in their definition of rural. This classification determines communities’ eligibility to receive certain federal healthcare resources, and adopting ruggedness in the definition will ensure that West... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, questioned national transportation leaders about electric vehicles during a Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight and Ports Subcommittee last week hearing titled, “Examining the Roadway Safety Crisis and Highlighting Community Solutions.” During her questions, Capito asked the officials about the fatality risks posed by electric vehicles (EVs) in potential crashes, as EVs... Read More

The Biden administration’s energy policies are increasingly costly for Americans, a newly released report says. U.S. House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., released the report, which argues Biden’s energy policies have increased costs for Americans and hurt the economy. “The Biden Administration weaponized the power of the executive branch to wage a war against American-made energy production and cement in place radical, far-left energy policies that jeopardize domestic energy... Read More

West Virginia is home to more than 135,000 men and women who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, with more than 99,000 who served during wartime, according to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. West Virginia officials marked the Memorial Day holiday with messages calling on Mountain State residents to both cherish those veterans still with us while also remembering the service of those who lost their lives in the line of duty. “On Memorial Day, we come together to display our deep... Read More

A U.S. senator has raised concerns about a $50 million grant the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded to the Climate Justice Alliance, a group that advocates for action on climate change. U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said the Environment and Public Works Committee, found the EPA gave a $50 million grant to the group with money from the Inflation Reduction Act. She said the group "engages in pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and... Read More

U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), along with U.S. Representatives Carol Miller (R-WV) and Alex Mooney (R-WV), wrote a letter Thursday to Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Carole Johnson, urging HRSA to adequately include terrain factors in their definition of rural. This classification determines communities’ eligibility to receive certain federal health care resources, and the lawmakers say adopting ruggedness in the definition... Read More

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) sent a letter to Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Martin O’Malley Wednesday raising concerns that SSA beneficiaries would have difficulty accessing benefit services following a decision to close SSA offices nationwide during business hours. Capito is the Ranking Member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Subcommittee and Collins is the Vice... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., applauded the Appalachian Regional Commission’s commitment of more than $30 million to help West Virginia meet matching required for federal broadband funding dollars on Thursday. The state is required to come up with a minimum 25% match for the $1.2 billion it is slated to receive through the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment program, which is funded through the National Telecommunication and Information Administration. “The problem that has been... Read More

The Biden Administration is showering far and wide more than $1 trillion in climate largesse from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Still, who could have thought that taxpayer funds would flow to a left-wing group that thinks “climate justice” involves everything from freeing Palestine to dismantling capitalism? That’s the discovery made by West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s office. Democrats appropriated $3 billion in the IRA to the Environmental Protection Agency for “environmental... Read More

West Virginia U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito was the lead sponsor of a bill that promises to provide greater support to people with Parkinson’s nationwide. The Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act, or House Resolution 2365, will require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create “an advisory board comprising members of federal agencies and private sector experts, including, patients, care partners, researchers, and clinicians to create a comprehensive... Read More

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), joined a group of 129 lawmakers this week in a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging the department to withdraw its latest attempt to transfer student loan debt onto American taxpayers. Capito said the proposed rule will cost hard-working Americans an additional $147 billion and bring the total... Read More

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously advanced its bill to authorize new levee, harbor and ecosystem restoration projects and set policy at the red tape-laden Army Corps of Engineers. Lawmakers are racing to advance the measure, S. 4367, in the coming weeks in hopes of keeping the popular, bipartisan infrastructure legislation from getting bogged down by election politics. "As sea-level driven by climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten our... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WBOY) — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) is drawing attention to oversight findings that $50 million in taxpayer funding went to a group that engages in “pro-Hamas” activities through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Fellow West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) worked closely with Sen. Maj. Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to create the IRA back in July 2022. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office did not believe that the IRA was going to have an impact on inflation when... Read More

The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee voted to pass the bipartisan Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2024 on Wednesday. The legislation was introduced by Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.). The bill advanced by a unanimous vote, according to Capito. The Water Resources Development Act is biennial legislation that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of... Read More