Press Releases

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Last week, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, helped introduce the Kids Online Safety Act, comprehensive bipartisan legislation – led by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) – to protect children online and hold Big Tech accountable.“Our children are the future, which is why it’s important that we do all we can to protect them... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an op-ed published Sunday in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, wrote about the need to substantively reform America’s broken permitting and environmental review process, and the impact it would have on West Virginia. Capito also discussed how to deliver real solutions, which include two pieces of legislation she recently introduced to streamline... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $20,000,000 for the West Virginia Network for Functional Neuroscience and Transcriptomics. The funding, made available through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ESPCoR) Track-1 award program at the National Science Foundation, will work to transform neuroscience research in West Virginia by establishing connections and enabling access to... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a bipartisan group in sending a letter to U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raising concerns with the Federal Insurance Office’s (FIO) efforts to force the Biden administration’s unrealistic environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda onto the state-regulated insurance industry. This could result in state insurance regulators and insurers being coerced into adopting... Read More

Watch Ranking Member Capito’s opening statement here.Watch Ranking Member Capito’s first round of questions here.Watch Ranking Member Capito’s second round of questions here. WASHINGTON, D.C. – 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, yesterday participated in a hearing on the president’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget request for the National... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, introduced two pieces of legislation to substantively reform the nation’s broken permitting and environmental review processes, which are currently delaying key energy, infrastructure, and transportation projects across America. Ranking... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, today announced $3,066,413 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to support affordable housing for low-income households and those experiencing homelessness in West Virginia. “I am pleased to see this support coming to West Virginians who are... Read More

To watch Senator Capito’s questioning, click here or the image above. WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, as well as the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today questioned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan on the EPA’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. During the... Read More

Click here or the image above to watch Round 1 of Ranking Member Capito’s questions. Click here to watch Round 2. 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 and discussed progress on key West Virginia projects, including an update on Nucor steel mill’s progress through the permitting and federal review process, as well as the... Read More

Click here or the image above to watch Ranking Member Capito’s opening remarks from the committee hearing. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, “U.S. Army Corps Budget 2024 and Implementation of Water Resources Development Act of 2022.” Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as delivered. “Thank you, Chairman Carper, for calling today’s hearing and for... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) yesterday introduced the Educational Opportunity and Success Act, which would reauthorize and strengthen the federal TRIO Programs. Nationwide, TRIO Programs help ensure that underserved students have equal access to a college education and the support they need to prepare for, succeed in, and graduate from higher education.“TRIO Programs help... Read More

To watch Senator Capito’s remarks, click here or on the image above.  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, delivered remarks at the weekly Senate Republican Leadership press conference on the need for President Biden to earnestly negotiate a debt ceiling solution, and engage in bipartisan compromise that he has previously claimed to champion.HIGHLIGHTS:SUPPORTING THE HOUSE’S EFFORTS:... Read More

To watch Senator Capito’s questioning, click here or the image above. WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, today questioned U.S. Secretary of the Army Hon. Christine Wormuth and U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville on the U.S. Army’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. During the hearing, Senator Capito asked about the effectiveness of American munitions in support of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) reintroduced the Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act, legislation to improve the way patients receive care for mental illness in emergency departments. The bipartisan bill would establish a competitive grant program for emergency departments to adopt more collaborative and connected mental health care models and deploy new technology to better connect patients... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chris Coons (D-Dele.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) this week introduced a bipartisan Senate resolution – led by Senator Graham – urging the Biden Administration to designate Vladimir Kara-Murza as wrongfully detained under United States law.Kara-Murza, a permanent resident of the United States, was... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — 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, today announced $12,914,643 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for two southern West Virginia community action organizations. “This funding from HHS will help strengthen the educational foundation of our youth in southern West Virginia and provide... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senators Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) this week reintroduced their bipartisan bill, the Forest Incentives Program Act, to help landowners make forest management more affordable and provide them with feasible options to preserve their land. With financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), private forest owners would be encouraged to employ environmentally conscious forest management techniques.... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — 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, today announced $300,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for the West Virginia Community and Technical College System on behalf of New River Community and Technical College. This funding, which was secured through a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) request by Senator Capito,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee (EPW), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), also a member of the EPW Committee, this week led the EPW Committee in advancing two bipartisan bills to improve our nation’s recycling and composting systems by a voice vote. Last week, Capito, Carper, and Boozman introduced both pieces of legislation, the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a letter – led by U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) – to the Biden administration's Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson. The letter expressed the senators’ outrage at Thompson's proposal to penalize Americans who have managed their money responsibly in order to subsidize high-risk borrowers with low credit.“This shortsighted and... Read More