WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is continuing to fight for the 70 million Americans who provide for themselves and their families as independent contractors. Today, Chairwoman Foxx is threatening to subpoena Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su following her failure to provide responses  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 8, 2024: * * * Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today released the following statement regarding the resignations of three Columbia University deans who exchanged disparaging text messages about Jewish students and colleagues. "About time. Actions have consequences, and Columbia should have fired   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Shawnee Sports Complex Welcome Center in Dunbar, West Virginia. "Since its opening in 2018, the Shawnee Sports Complex has continued to grow and attract more and more patrons, sports events, and community activities," Senator Manchin said in part. "I'm so proud to have secured $3 million in Congression  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) toured the TW Metals Defense Industrial Supplier in South Charleston, West Virginia. TW Metals and the West Virginia defense industrial base provides more than 2.7 million parts and raw materials for the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier program. "West Virginia mined the coal that forged the steel that built the tanks and ships that made our nation the st  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV This week, Senators Joe Manchin III (I-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, announced over $100 million in federal funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to develop a state-of-the-art multi-day energy storage project in Maine using batteries manuf  more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news on Aug. 8, 2024: Yesterday, Congresswoman Kiggans visited the Eastern Shore to see firsthand how the $1.5 million she secured in the Fiscal Year 2024 government funding bills will be used to support the local community. Specifically, she visited the Hampton Roads Sanitation District in Onancock and the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority in Exmore, where the federal dollars she secured are bein  more