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At the beginning of this year, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito appeared poised to take the gavel of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. But when two Senate races in Georgia upended that possibility, she became something else: the go-to deal-maker for Senate Republicans on infrastructure. In just 24 hours last weekend, the benefits and disadvantages of that role became evident. Capito had a win on Saturday when she and Democratic Sen. Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, the... Read More

A Senate panel today unanimously approved a $350 billion surface transportation bill amid an increasingly tense infrastructure debate between Democrats, Republicans and the White House. Despite that friction, the "Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act" passed on a bipartisan 20-0 vote after the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee incorporated about 90 additional provisions to the bill. One addition from Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) would direct $200... Read More

U.S. Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the release of a bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill. Carper, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Capito, the committee’s ranking member, said the bill would come before their committee on May 26 for review. “I’m proud to join with my colleagues in crafting a bipartisan bill that invests in our nation’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — A cease-fire has been reached, and a solution to the on-going and historic Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be difficult, but possible, said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. “I support a two-state solution,” she said In an interview last week, a solution that would include an independent State of Palestine and the State of Israel. The most recent outbreak of hostilities lasted 11 days and reportedly cost the lives of more than 200, with missiles reigning down on... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — On West Virginia Politics, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) discusses the Reta Mays sentencing and how the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Clarksburg failed the victims and their families. Capito also discusses the $300 million West Virginia will receive as part of President Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill. The money will go towards expanding broadband, maximizing the United State Department of Agriculture and Appalachian Regional Commission... Read More

A group of Republican and Democratic senators unveiled a transportation package over the weekend that would increase funding for highways, roads and bridges as Congress searches for bipartisan paths to repair the nation’s infrastructure. The legislation, released by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, would increase funding by 34% to a baseline of about $300 billion over five years. The previous authorization expired in 2020 and Congress passed a one-year... Read More

WASHINGTON — Legislation for keeping the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from being used as a political weapon was introduced this week in Congress. Lawmakers including U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., joined Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, and U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., in introducing the legislation. “Government targeting individuals for their political beliefs is about as un-American as you can get, yet that’s exactly what the IRS did during the... Read More

In encouraging news for transportation construction, leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have reached a bipartisan agreement on a bill that would authorize $303.5 billion over five years for the federal highway program. In unveiling the bill on May 22,  committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), its top Republican, Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), and other key members said the panel is scheduled to vote on the measure on May 26. [View section-by-section summary of... Read More

CHARLESTON — Instead of heading to the White House to meet with officials this week, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito brought the officials to her Tuesday as negotiations on a potential infrastructure package continue. Capito, R-W.Va., and Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., met Tuesday afternoon with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, White House Counselor Steve Ricchetti, Director of... Read More

CHARLESTON — Instead of heading to the White House to meet with officials this week, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito brought the officials to her Tuesday as negotiations on an infrastructure package continue. Capito, R-W.Va., and Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., met Tuesday afternoon with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, White House Counselor Steve Ricchetti, Director of... Read More

CHARLESTON — Instead of heading to the White House to meet with officials this week, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito brought the officials to her Tuesday as negotiations on a potential infrastructure package continue. Capito, R-W.Va., and Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., met Tuesday afternoon with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, White House Counselor Steve Ricchetti, Director of... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — He’s known her for as long as he can remember, once challenging “Shel” to a heart-pumping zipline race down a rugged mountaintop. The way she tells it, they actually first met when he came to measure the carpeting for her new house in the 1970s. The two U.S. senators from West Virginia, Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito, grew up in politically prominent families and now find themselves playing central roles in President... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s known her for as long as he can remember, once challenging “Shel” to a heart-pumping zipline race down a rugged mountaintop. The way she tells it, they actually first met when he came to measure the carpeting for her new house in the 1970s. The two U.S. senators from West Virginia, Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito, grew up in politically prominent families and now find themselves playing central roles... Read More

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s two U.S. Senators and Northern West Virginia’s congressman toured the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg on Monday one week after a former employee was sentenced for multiple murders at the facility. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., along with 1st District Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., toured the medical center Monday morning with Denis McDonough, the new secretary if the U.S. Department of Veterans... Read More

CLARKSBURG – Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito and Rep. David McKinley joined Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough at the Clarksburg VA hospital Monday for a tour and a discussion of the failures that allowed Reta Mays to murder eight patients. McDonough read the names of the eight victims during a press conference that followed the tour. “No words can ease the pain or the suffering and losses for families, caregivers and survivors,” he said. “VA must... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $2,473,820 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources for cancer prevention and control programs. West Virginia is disproportionately impacted by cancer, making this funding to our state all the more important. Providing resources like these to help West Virginians... Read More

Six years after a landslide at Yeager Airport sent dirt and debris tumbling into the valley below, the runways at this hilltop transportation hub in Charleston, W.Va., still could use some upgrades. The need for the new investment was obvious to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who donned a hard hat and toured the airport to see some of its other ongoing construction projects in March. “A lot of our infrastructure is falling apart,” she told local reporters at the time. Now, the fate of... Read More

Following the sentencing of former nursing aide Reta Mays, West Virginia’s U.S. senators say hard work must be done to assure confidence in the Clarksburg veterans hospital where multiple patients died after being administered lethal doses of insulin. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., says he is meeting Monday with Denis McDonough, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “I want to make sure he understands the need to absolutely overhaul the management and the... Read More

Two senior Senate Republicans accused President Joe Biden of violating the law by holding up border wall construction that Congress specifically approved under the Trump administration, and they are pushing a government watchdog to force the White House's hand. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and Vice Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama pushed Wednesday for the Government Accountability Office... Read More