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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Both U.S. Senators from West Virginia are applauding a proposal by the administration of President Donald Trump that could provide more than $20 billion to rural broadband over 10 years. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Trump administration put together the fund through the FCC’s new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. On Friday in a release, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-WV, said, “I am intrigued by the Administration’s proposal... Read More

  WASHINGTON - Congress is taking aim at robocalls, with lawmakers wanting the incessant phone calls to stop. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) is a co-sponsor of the TRACED Act. It would require phone companies to install technology that identifies robocalls before they reach your phone. Brie Jackson reports.   Read More

Two area public housing agencies will get a boost from a federal grant program for developing, financing and modernizing facilities, federal lawmakers in Maryland and West Virginia announced Friday. The Hagerstown Housing Authority was awarded a little more than $2.4 million, and the public housing authority in the city of Martinsburg, W.Va., received $594,506. The money for HHA is part of $4.4 million awarded to Western Maryland agencies through HUD’s Public Housing Capital... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $5,46 million for several West Virginia health centers through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Health Center Program. Funding will support the continued operations of these centers to provide primary and preventive care to West Virginians. Preston Taylor Community Health Center will receive $1,969,690, while... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDTV) -- U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced Monday that $4.2 million will be going to four AmeriCorps programs in the state, including one in Elkins. According to a joint press release, $1,116,925 will go to United Way of Central West Virginia in Charleston, $769,745 will go to High Rocks Education Corporation in Hillsboro, $755,800 will go to the Appalachian Forest Heritage Area in Elkins, and $274,864 will go to the Grow Ohio Valley in... Read More

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have reintroduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. According to a press release by Sen. Capito's office, it would help protect survivors and accused students by making sure schools have a regulated and fair process for investigating and conducting campus disciplinary proceedings. The legislation would provide new campus resources and support services for student survivors.... Read More

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $1.5 million to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.  The funding will support wraparound health services for women before, during and after pregnancy, and provide comprehensive care for infants and children. “Access to quality health care is critical for mothers and their children,” said U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. “This funding will help protect the... Read More

HUNTINGTON — The Hershel "Woody" Williams Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Huntington has been chosen as one of 10 pilot sites nationwide for an agriculture training/behavioral health care services program known as Veterans Affairs Farming and Recovery Mental Health Services (VA FARMS). Known as "agrotherapy," the program is an eight-week course consisting of six weeks of classroom training and a two-week internship. The first program begins Monday, April 8. The program is... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito says she believes the message came through “loud and clear” to a top FEMA administrator Friday that it’s time to pick up the pace in replacing schools destroyed by the June 2016 floodwaters. Capito and fellow U.S. Senator Joe Manchin participated in Friday’s meeting by phone with a group that had gathered in her Charleston office including FEMA Region III Administrator MaryAnn Tierney. Tierney, at... Read More

WASHINGTON — Three health centers in West Virginia will receive federal funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The funding — which comes through the administration's Health Center Program — will support continued operations of these centers to provide primary and preventive care to West Virginians. The three centers will receive a combined total of more than $5.4 million. The centers and their funding amounts are:  — Bluestone Health... Read More

PRINCETON — A Mercer County-based community health center has been awarded more than $2.3 million in federal grant funding. The Bluestone Health Association in Princeton will receive a grant of $2,319,878, U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., said Thursday. Miller said the funds will be used to continue the normal operations of the center that serves 15,000 plus people in and around Mercer County. “This is fantastic news for Mercer County and the Bluestone Health... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Shelley Moore Capito will meet with FEMA Region III administrator MaryAnn Tierney in Charleston Friday to discuss efforts to speed up the permitting process for replacement schools for buildings destroyed in the June 2016 flood. Both Capito and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin have been questioning FEMA of late about the pace of environmental studies and other requirements for the proposed sites in Kanawha and Nicholas counties. Capito invited Tierney to West... Read More

  CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) - Mark Curtis got a chance to talk to U.S. Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) about the FEMA budget hearings, Richwood indictments, whether there should be an investigation into the use of flood relief money, and working to stop robocalls. Read More

CLARKSBURG, W.V.a. - Robo-calls are receiving renewed attention in Congress. This week, Senator Shelly Moore Capito and her colleagues are taking steps to crack down on scammers who prey on consumers’ phones. Under bipartisan legislation, called the TRACED Act, the U.S. government would gain more power to increase fines for scammers, while prodding phone carriers to improve their technology so that consumers can more easily figure out if calls are real or spam. "We passed out of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.-(WTAP) A West Virginia senator hopes the Federal Emergency Management Agency can move quicker to rebuild flood-devastated areas, including those in her home state. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito chairs the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and heard Wednesday from acting FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor. She says she's concerned about the lack of progress in rebuilding the southern West Virginia area hit by floods in 2016. "But the individual assistance... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The top leader at the Federal Emergency Management Agency told a U.S. Senate subcommittee Wednesday the hurdles to rebuild four destroyed schools in West Virginia are nearly through. Peter Gaynar, acting administrator for FEMA, was before the committee chaired by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito to discuss FEMA’s budget request for the coming fiscal year. However, Capito used the opportunity to quiz him about the slow pace of school restoration in Kanawha and... Read More

WASHINGTON - West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R) encourages tax dollars to go toward mitigation during the FEMA budget hearing. Capito, who chairs the Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittee, attended the hearing and mentioned the work that is needed to be done in West Virginia. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's acting administrator, Peter Gaynor was also present. “I think it’s reasonable to expect the community to get very impatient with the... Read More

Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Frank Volk has been nominated to serve as a judge in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  President Donald Trump nominated Volk to preside in federal court in place of Judge John Copenhaver, who transferred to senior status in November, according to the U.S. Courts website.  Approval of Volk’s nomination and appointment is pending before the U.S. Senate.  Volk has presided as a bankruptcy court... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., applauded President Trump’s nomination for Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia Monday. Frank W. Volk had been recommended by Sen. Capito to President Trump for the position, according to a news release from the Senator’s office. “Frank has served West Virginia honorably as a bankruptcy judge and as a law clerk to several of our state’s most... Read More

The Rainelle Medical Center will receive $2,092,044 in federal funding to continue its primary and preventative care services. Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin jointly made the announcement on Tuesday. “Our community health centers are an essential component of West Virginia’s health care system,” U.S. Senator Capito said. “By providing access to primary health services in rural areas, professionals like those at Rainelle Medical Center fill a... Read More