WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation and the author of the Saving the Civil Service Act, released the following statement in response to Governor Glenn Youngkin's defense of Donald Trump's plan to wreak havoc on Northern Virginia by firing or relocating more than 100,000 federal employees: "Don  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement after the Biden-Harris Administration announced that Medicare reached historic agreements to bring down the cost of 10 highly-used prescription drugs: "The Inflation Reduction Act finally gave Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. Today, we see the results of that policy. This is huge news that will benefit families across t  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $639,646 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for West Virginia University (WVU) and the West Virginia State Department of Health. The funding will support access to School-Based Health Clinics in rural areas as well as hire new staff within the West Virginia Office of M  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) announcement that it has reached agreements for new, lower prices for all 10 drugs selected for negotiations, as directed by the Inflation Reduction Act. These negotiated drugs are some of the most expensive and most frequently dispensed drugs in the Medicare program and are used to trea  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Richmond, VA Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman and Richmond Field Office Director Carrie Schmidt, requesting the agency to help address issues at the Carriage House Apartments, a low-income senior living community in Petersburg, Virginia. Residents of the Carriage House Apartm  more

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 16 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger this morning joined leaders from the City of Fredericksburg at the site of last month's CSX Transportation freight train derailment and visited the nearby CSX rail yard in Fredericksburg's Mayfield neighborhood. On the evening of July 20, 2024, five cars from a CSX freight train derailed, flattened one building, and caused significant damage to a r  more