WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Capito Votes to Confirm Oz to Lead CMS WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following statement after voting to confirm Dr. Mehmet Oz as Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Ensuring   more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 4, 2025: * * * Capito, Fischer, Mullin Introduce Resolutions to Repeal California's Radical EV Mandate WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) introduced joint resoluti  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Congressional Voting Rights Caucus Condemns Trump Executive Order on Elections as Unconstitutional and Illegal WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressional Voting Rights Caucus Co-Chairs Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03), Rep. Nikema Williams (GA-05), Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) and Rep. Marc Veasey (TX-33) issued a forceful rebuke of President Donald Trump's March 25, 2025, Executive Order entitled Preserving and Prot  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: * * * Connolly Statement on NATO's 76th Anniversary Congressman Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), the former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement to mark the 76th Anniversary of NATO: "76 years ago, the founding members of NATO came together in the wreckage of World War II to establish a transatlantic allia  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Kaine, Warner, Murkowski Introduce Legislation to Support Virginia's Seafood Industry WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark R. Warner (D-VA), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the bipartisan Save Our Seafood (SOS) Act, which would exempt fish processors--which are critical to Virginia's economy--from the H-2B visa cap, which has made it difficult for local seafood processors  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, ranking member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on April 4, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Scott Statement on March Jobs Report WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 228,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate rose from 4.1 percent to 4.2 percent. During President   more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Members Krishnamoorthi and Connolly Request Plan on How Dept. of Education Will Continue to Serve Families Across America Washington, D.C. (April 4, 2025)--Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of th  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Statement of Senate Intel Vice Chairman on the Firing of Gen. Tim Haugh WASHINGTON - Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released the following statement on General Tim Haugh, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service: "General Haugh has served our country in uniform, with honor and distinction, for m  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Warner, Kaine, Kiggans Lead Virginia Colleagues in Effort to Reinstate Funding for Food Banks, Hungry Families WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA-02), joined by Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Gerry Connolly (D-VA-10), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-04), Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09), Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10), Eugene Vind  more