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MORGANTOWN – Bridges, defense spending, permitting reform and the southern border were among the topics of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s Thursday conversation with West Virginia reporters.Bridges came up as a question following Gov. Jim Justice’s Wednesday announcement that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will bring an additional $548 million across five years to West Virginia to address its ailing bridge system.Capito said she worked on specifically negotiating bridges into the IIJA... Read More

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act, introduced this week in Congress, would create standardized coverage in Medicaid and CHIP plans for approved digital health tools and platforms.A new bill introduced to Congress aims to improve coverage for digital therapeutics in Medicaid and state Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIPs).The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act (S.5238), introduced on December 12 by Senators Shelley Moore... Read More

The Government Accountability Office concluded a December 2021 memo issued by the Federal Highway Administration to guide states on using infrastructure law funds went beyond listing legal requirements and instead expressed a policy preference.The GAO determined the internal memo, which indicates states should prioritize fixing existing assets over highway expansions, meets the definition of a regulation under the Administrative Procedure Act and could be reviewed by Congress.The Congressional... Read More

The state will receive more than $548 million over the next five years from the Federal Highway Administration to invest in its bridges.Transportation Secretary Jimmy Wriston said the infusion of funds will allow the state to repair 2,700 bridges over 10 years.“So you’re going to start seeing a lot of bridge work in West Virginia," Wriston said. "A lot of bridge work in West Virginia.”Wriston said about 75 bridges owned by municipalities are eligible for 100 percent funding, where a 20 percent... Read More

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday received a bipartisan bill for consideration co-led by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) that would ensure equal pay for all Americans who represent the United States in global athletic competitions after the U.S. Senate gave it approval on Dec. 8.The Equal Pay for Team USA Act of 2022, S. 2333, which Sen. Capito cosponsored in July 2021 alongside bill sponsor U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), would require that all athletes representing the U.S. in... Read More

West Virginia’s broadband issues are well known and documented. But thanks to the efforts of U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., even more light will be shined on the problems.Both have been highly involved in fighting the Federal Communications Commission and their erroneous broadband maps that help to cover up the Mountain State’s connectivity issues.“In recent years, I’ve submitted more than 2,400 speed tests from West Virginians that prove that the FCC’s maps... Read More

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A congressman who won’t be returning to office in January was praised Tuesday by a West Virginia senator.Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., was instrumental in advancing bills impacting West Virginians, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said in a speech from the Senate floor.“David has played an essential role in advancing legislation critical to infrastructure, life-altering hearing aid devices and securing the pensions and retirement benefits that our West Virginia coal... Read More

Two area health care associations are among the agencies sharing in more than $6 million in federal funding to help with COVID-19 inoculations in West Virginia’s rural areas.U.S. Senators Joe Manchin, D-WV and Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced Wednesday that $6,004,515 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will be distributed to 31 health centers across West Virginia. The... Read More

Outgoing U.S. Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., said he appreciated the kind words said on the U.S. Senate floor by his friend, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.Capito, McKinley’s fellow West Virginia Republican, lauded the congressman Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor. U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., defeated McKinley in this year’s primary for the new northern 2nd District seat in the House of Representatives.The state lost a congressional district due to population decreases effective for the 2022... Read More

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (WV News) — Mascaro Construction, a Pittsburgh-based firm, was awarded a $25 million contract Tuesday to construct the new terminal building at North Central West Virginia Airport.The project is expected to begin during the first quarter of 2023, according to Airport Director Rick Rock.“We’ll be cutting a ribbon for the new building in the second half of 2024,” he said.During a special meeting Tuesday afternoon, members of the Benedum Airport Authority approved the $25,347,000... Read More

Give U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., credit — they are certainly trying to get their fellow senators to find a way to pass energy project permitting reform.But try as they might, they haven’t been able to bridge the gap, as other lawmakers seem to spend their time looking for reasons to be against the most logical approach to energy production to both spur the economy and increase their country’s energy independence and national security.Manchin is making yet... Read More

Community members and state officials met with the West Virginia Broadband office and U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin to discuss new broadband coverage maps from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).Participants were shown how to check their area’s coverage, and if it is incorrect, how to challenge the maps.“West Virginia is primed to receive and compete for hundreds of millions of dollars to bring reliable, affordable broadband access to all West... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WOWK) – Thomas Health Systems is receiving funding to renovate a building on the St. Francis Hospital campus, allowing the facility to expand its Addiction Healing Center services.According to U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), the funding for the renovation comes from a Congressionally Directed Spending request the senators secured for direct spending measures for projects and initiatives across the state. The senators say $1,200,000 has been... Read More

WHEELING — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito paid tribute to her good friend, the departing U.S. Rep. David B. McKinley, with a speech Wednesday on the Senate floor in Washington. Capito lauded McKinley, her fellow West Virginia Republican, for his tenacity, decisiveness and passion for serving constituents in the Mountain State. “Mr. President, I rise to honor a seventh-generation West Virginian, a lifelong Wheeling native, a devoted husband, father, grandfather and public servant – my very good... Read More

MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito paid tribute to her West Virginia friend and colleague Rep. David McKinley during a Tuesday speech on the Senate floor.Their friendship extends back many years she said, from when McKinley served in the House of Delegates and then as state GOP chair.“Although time has gone by, David’s passion and love for West Virginia has never wavered, and his pragmatic service has never changed,” she said.McKinley was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito took to the floor of the Senate Tuesday to recognize the accomplishments of six-term West Virginia First District Congressman David McKinley.McKinley, a former member of the state House of Delegates and West Virginia Republican Party Chairman, lost his bid for a seventh term when he was defeated in the May election by Rep. Alex Mooney. The two ran against one another after the state lost a congressional district following the 2020 U.S.... Read More

HUNTINGTON — The U.S. The Department of Labor awarded incremental funding Monday to help West Virginia continue cleaning up the effects of severe storms that struck the state last winter.The award of $614,437 was given to WorkForce West Virginia to continue to provide temporary employment to help with cleanup and recovery services in nine counties affected by severe storms in February and March of 2021.Two back-to-back winter weather systems ripped through the state in February 2021, leaving... Read More

Thomas Health System will receive $1.2 million in federal funds to renovate a medical office building at Saint Francis Hospital, expanding the system’s ability to provide substance use treatment. Saint Francis is in downtown Charleston. Thomas is in the city of South Charleston. Both are part of both Thomas Health System, which is now part of WVU United Health, a 24-hospital network that extends into Ohio. A Tuesday news release said the project will aid efforts of Saint Francis’... Read More

U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are calling for the U.S. International Development Finance Corp. (DFC) to begin financing civil nuclear energy projects.In a Dec. 8 letter addressed to Scott Nathan, chief executive officer of the DFC, the senators wrote that the DFC is able to play an important role in supporting the continued development and future deployment of U.S. advanced nuclear technology abroad.The lawmakers noted that the DFC modernized its nuclear energy... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) —U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin have teamed with the West Virginia Office of Broadband to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s recently released draft broadband coverage map.During a virtual informational session Monday, members of the senators’ staffs and representatives of state Office of Broadband encouraged residents to review the map and submit a challenge to any inaccurate information they find.State residents can search the FCC’s... Read More