Press Releases

Click here or on the image above to watch Ranking Member Capito’s floor speech.WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today spoke on the Senate floor highlighting historically high gas prices, the Biden administration’s domestic energy policy decisions, and how they impact the crisis in Ukraine.HIGHLIGHTS:SKYROCKETING GAS PRICES: “People in West Virginia woke up this morning. And according to AAA, the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $2,116,460 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the establishment of the Visual Sciences Center of Biomedical Research Excellence at West Virginia University. Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence support the establishment and development of innovative, state-of-the-art biomedical and behavioral... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), along with U.S. Representatives David McKinley (R-W.Va.-01) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.-05), introduced bipartisan legislation to increase access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs).The legislation, known as the Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act of 2022, would expand Medicare coverage to include PDTs, which are software-based disease treatments designed to directly... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) yesterday sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan requesting transparency and information on EPA’s use of Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (SC-GHG).A U.S. District Court recently issued a preliminary... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,193,188 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Eastern Alleghany Council for Human Services For Head Start programs in West Virginia.“Children in West Virginia deserve access to resources that will strengthen their development and help advance their education. Our students are the future of our... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,601,829 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Camden-on-Gauley Medical Center, Inc. This funding was made available through the department’s Health Center Cluster grant program.“Health Centers play such an important role in expanding access to medical services in our state,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced three West Virginia school systems will receive funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s 2021 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) School Bus Rebate Awards. The program works to fund the replacement of old diesel school buses with... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,462,713 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support 13 West Virginia healthcare providers. This funding from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) was included in the CARES Act and other bipartisan COVID-19 relief packages.“Since the beginning of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) bipartisan resolution condemning the recent bomb threats against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country. Senators Capito and Manchin led their colleagues in passing the resolution to reaffirm the federal government’s commitment to combatting violence against students, faculty and staff. West Virginia is... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $2,802,164 to the West Virginia Division of Emergency Management. This funding, which is through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is allocated to reimburse state management costs (SMC) as a... Read More

BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today made multiple stops in the Eastern Panhandle to discuss broadband deployment, infrastructure projects, and economic development with local leaders and employers in the region.“There are so many people in the Eastern Panhandle working to grow and strengthen our communities, and the results speak for themselves,” Senator Capito said. “The efforts of everyone – from Paw Paw Mayor Darlene Abe to... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today announced that Jennifer Piercy, who currently serves as the Executive Director of the County Commissioner’s Association of West Virginia, will join her staff as Director of Economic Development beginning April 6.“Jennifer has a deep knowledge of local government and brings a wide range of economic development experience to her new role. With our state having a number of economic development projects already... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Representative David McKinley (R-W.Va.) today announced $6,313,780 from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for 22 West Virginia watersheds and flood protection sites. The funding will repair existing watershed infrastructure and invest in exploring new opportunities for dams and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and a bipartisan group of their colleagues in introducing the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act, which would prohibit the importation of Russian crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and coal.“The United States should not be subsidizing Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine by purchasing and importing Russian oil,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After President Joe Biden reiterated in his State of the Union Address his plans to ask Congress for additional COVID-19 funding, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) yesterday joined 35 of her Republican colleagues in a letter, led by U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), to the president requesting an accounting of how the federal government has allocated trillions in taxpayer funds to combat the pandemic. Specific answers to these questions are vital before... Read More

Click here or the image above to watch Ranking Member Capito’s questions for Secretary Buttigieg.WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, questioned U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a hearing about the department’s implementation of the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Following a December 16, 2021... 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 on the implementation the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) with U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg.Following a December 16, 2021 memorandum issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that outlined several policies contradicting those negotiated... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) released the below statement following President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address:“The State of the Union address is always a momentous occasion, and it was especially great to join together in-person this year, which was a positive change from the prior year. The president began his speech, as he should have, by addressing the situation in Ukraine. I continue to be concerned for the free people of Ukraine,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a draft National Coverage Determination (NCD) that proposes to restrict coverage of a new class of Alzheimer’s treatments, monoclonal antibodies that target amyloid plaque, to Alzheimer’s patients who are enrolled in qualifying clinical trials. In response to this coverage decision, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), co-chair of the Assisting Caregivers Today (ACT)... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of their colleagues, introduced the Made in America Manufacturing Communities Act of 2022.The bill would create a new program that incentivizes private-public partnerships by empowering the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to designate consortiums as “Manufacturing Communities,” which would be eligible for federal financial and technical... Read More