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WASHINGTON (WV News) — Members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation decried record-high inflation Tuesday and called on the Biden administration to do more to aid Americans faced with skyrocketing prices.Consumer prices have risen 8.5% over the last year, the largest 12-month increase since December 1981, according to information released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Tuesday’s report tells a “chilling story... Read More

WASHINGTON — The repeal of a public health directive allowing the immediate expulsion of those who illegally cross into the United States could turn a crisis into a catastrophe, a Senator from West Virginia said Thursday.Border agents may have to contend with 18,000 illegal immigrants a day, the estimate from the Department of Homeland Security, taking their attention away from the flow of illegal narcotics such as cocaine and fentanyl into the country, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The repeal of a public health directive allowing the immediate expulsion of those who illegally cross into the United States could turn a crisis into a catastrophe, a Senator from West Virginia said Thursday.Border agents may have to contend with 18,000 illegal immigrants a day, the estimate from the Department of Homeland Security, taking their attention away from the flow of illegal narcotics such as cocaine and fentanyl into the country, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito,... Read More

If the Biden administration thinks it’s still on track to slash U.S. emissions in line with its aggressive international pledge, it’s not sharing the details publicly—or with key members of Congress.   In a Senate hearing this week featuring Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito grilled the EPA chief on his failure to disclose the administration’s plan to cut emissions 50 percent below high-water levels... Read More

MORGANTOWN – Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin joined forces on an immigration bill on Thursday, while taking opposite sides on the vote to confirm Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.   The bill is the Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022, co-sponsored by Capito and Manchin and a bipartisan group of senators. It’s intended to block the Biden plan to end the Trump administration Title 42 policy by May 23. The policy was intended to stop the spread... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito have introduced a bill that could extend Title 42 and prevent migrants from entering the United States.An order under Title 42 was implemented during the pandemic to prevent migrants from bringing COVID-19 into the country. The Biden administration has announced its plans to terminate the Title 42 order on May 23, but West Virginia’s senators do not agree with its removal. The Public Health and Border Security Act... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Senate made a historic vote Thursday when the chamber confirmed federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next Supreme Court justice.The Senate voted 53-47 to confirm Jackson, in which Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., joined Democratic colleagues in support of the nomination. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., was one of 47 Republicans who opposed confirming Jackson to the high court.Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah,... Read More

Congressman David McKinley, R-W.Va., was among the participants in a hearing with the chiefs of some of America’s largest energy producers. The hearing was called “Gouged at the Gas Station: Big Oil and America’s Pain at the Pump.”   “Surely this committee recognizes that the gas prices are set at the global market and are markedly influenced by domestic regulations,” McKinley said during a subcommittee hearing of the House Energy and... Read More

E&E DAILY | Republicans yesterday proposed legislation to prevent President Joe Biden from declaring a climate emergency, a day after another dire warning from scientists about the consequences of climate change.Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) led introduction of the "Real Emergencies Act," which would specify that the president cannot declare a national emergency because of climate change.It's in part a messaging effort aimed at tying Biden to... Read More

Congressional earmarks are back.   The process by which politicians attach funding for a variety of projects in their home state or district returned with the $1.5 trillion federal government spending bill approved last month after an 11-year absence.   A New York Times analysis of the earmarks finds that members of the Senate and House of Representatives* included 4,962 earmarks totaling over $9 billion in the budget. Democrats had more earmark spending than... Read More

With the goal of the United States to provide more LNG (liquid natural gas) to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) remains mired in court cases, but that could change.   Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said during a virtual press briefing from her Washington office Thursday the pipeline is almost 95 percent complete but court cases related to federal permitting processes have delayed completion.   That has prompted her as well... Read More

CHARLESTON — U.S. Shelley Moore Capito said Thursday she would not be among Republicans in the Senate to vote for the confirmation of federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for the Supreme Court.   During a virtual conference call with West Virginia media Thursday morning, Capito, R-W.Va., said she respected Jackson’s resume and accomplishments, but she just couldn’t bring herself to support the nomination after listening to her testimony before the Senate... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Thursday she will not support the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.   Captio, who also opposed Jackson’s nomination to the U,S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said during a virtual press conference from her Washington office Thursday morning a major concern was some of Jackson’s previous decisions related to the separation of powers where she ruled in a “philosophical... Read More

CHARLESTON – U.S. Shelley Moore Capito said Thursday she would not be among Republicans in the Senate to vote for the confirmation of federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for the Supreme Court.   During a virtual conference call with West Virginia media Thursday morning, Capito, R-W.Va., said she respected Jackson’s resume and accomplishments, but she just couldn’t bring herself to support the nomination after listening to her testimony before the Senate... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s U.S. senators on Friday criticized the Biden administration’s decision to end the Title 42 public health order.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the termination of the policy. Title 42 has required the expulsion of unauthorized single adults and families arriving in the United States to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.The termination takes effect May 23.The Trump administration implemented the policy in March... Read More

President Joe Biden said Friday the Title 42 policy at the southern border will end on May 23, but both U.S. senators from West Virginia say that is a mistake and it will create a possible record surge of immigrants.   “Through policy decision after policy decision, President Biden has created a crisis that is about to balloon into a full-blown catastrophe,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Friday after Biden announced the end date.   “Rescinding the U.S.... Read More

The U.S. border with Mexico is overwhelmed with individuals trying to either enter the country illegally or claim asylum.And things are going to get worse.President Biden is expected to lift Title 42, a public health provision the federal government has used since the Trump administration to stop the potential spread of Covid in this country by preventing would-be immigrants from crossing the border to claim asylum.NBC News reports, “The policy, which the (Biden administration) officials... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., will vote against confirming federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.   Capito announced Thursday she does not support Jackson’s nomination to the high court, noting she made the decision following the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the nominee.   Capito and Jackson had a one-on-one meeting ahead of the committee hearings, in which Capito noted at the... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Thursday she will not support the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.   Capito, who also opposed Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said during a virtual press conference from her Washington office Thursday morning a major concern was some of Jackson’s previous decisions related to the separation of powers where she ruled in a “philosophical... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced today via news release that she will not vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United State Supreme Court.President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to fill the vacancy left with the retirement of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.Capito said she took her duty to evaluate Jackson’s nomination seriously and approached it with an open mind, meeting with Jackson in Capito’s office to discuss her background and record,... Read More