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Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announced she will partner with Google to launch the Let’s Put West Virginia on the Map Program. Capito and representatives from Google will host a free tech workshop for Charleston-area small businesses at the Clay Center on Wednesday, September 2, to help business owners launch a website and become visible online.“By helping business owners reach more customers online, this workshop will empower West Virginia small businesses to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) says she supports the federal funding announcement made this week by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to benefit West Virginia’s rising heroin problem.ONDCP Director Michael Botticelli said $13.4 million will go toward High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas across the United States. Advance drug prevention initiatives will receive $2.5 million in funding in the Appalachia region as well as New... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The EPA and the Obama administration’s next focus is the reduction of emissions of methane gas from the oil and gas industry.With the Clean Power Plan recently finalized and coal on the ropes, the EPA is proposing standards to reduce methane emissions down to 45 percent, a 40 percent decrease. The EPA has said that methane is a greenhouse gas which has a global warming potential greater than carbon dioxide.Most of the methane emitted is from production of oil and... Read More

A welcomed federal funding boost announced Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., will help in fighting the rising heroin epidemic in the Mountain State while advancing necessary drug prevention initiatives for the region. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is allocating the $2.5 million to the Heroin Response Strategy, a new partnership among five regional High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Drug crackdown efforts in West Virginia and three other states will receive a federal funding boost of nearly $400,000. U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia says the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy made the funding available to the Appalachian High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area for initiatives in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. It’s part of $13.4 million in funding announced for five regional HIDTA programs in the... Read More

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Monday announced $13.4 million in funds to fight the rise of heroin abuse and trafficking.   A portion of the funds, $2.5 million, will fund the Heroin Response Strategy, an unprecedented partnership between the five existing regional High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas.   The strategy will increase the impact of funding by fostering collaboration between federal, state and local drug enforcement officers across 15... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., hosted Director Jon R. Lorsch from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences at West Virginia University on Aug. 13. Capito and Lorsch were joined by leaders, including President Gordon Gee, from WVU and Marshall University for a discussion highlighting the groundbreaking biomedical research occurring in West Virginia with the help of investments from NIH’s Institutional Development Award... Read More

Female students at Capital High school this week got to see a vision of their future when role models spoke at the first ever women-focused career day. The school hosted various female speakers who aimed to generate interest in the energy field, the Gazette-Mail’s Megan Kennedy reported Thursday. Speakers included U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito; Melissa Hatfield-Atkinson, supervisor at Chesapeake Energy; Amanda Marks-Cunningham, director of public affairs at Waste Management; and... Read More

MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito brought officials from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences to WVU on Thursday, Aug. 13, to show them how federal funds are benefiting the state and the nation through new medical breakthroughs. Capito, R-W.Va., along with WVU and Marshall University officials hosted Jon Lorsch, director of National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and Fred Taylor, director of the institute’s Center for Research... Read More

POCA — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., welcomed India’s deputy ambassador to the United States to West Virginia on Wednesday in hopes of strengthening the relationship between the Mountain State and the world’s second most populous country. Capito and Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the deputy chief of mission from the Indian Embassy, spent the afternoon touring Poca-based Kanawha Scales and Systems, a company that specializes in the weighing and automation industry. The... Read More

Since 2009, Congress has failed to come to an agreement on long-term highway funding, opting instead to pass 34 stopgap measures to keep money flowing. That’s not good government. The U.S. Senate recently passed a 35th stopgap measure that is now headed to the president’s desk. But senators, under the leadership of Mitch McConnell, R, Ky., also thought long-term, passing a six-year, $2 billion bill that would give states some clarity and certainty when planning highway and... Read More

Congressional Republicans have promised a robust response to President Obama's carbon-emission rules for power plants, and the Senate Wednesday lined up their first real piece of ammo. And Democrats showed that they're going to take their Republican opponents to the mat over the reality of climate change. After a messy markup that saw Democrats walking out, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee cleared a bill from Sen. Shelley Moore Capito that would force the Environmental... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has shown she’s not afraid to speak out against the Obama administration. On Wednesday, the Republican continued that trend, speaking on the Senate floor against a recent nuclear deal reached with Iran. Republicans, including Capito, have decried the deal, saying it is flawed and doesn’t go far enough in preventing the Mideast country from growing its nuclear ambitions. “Any agreement with Iran should include rigorous and immediate inspections of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is hopeful a bipartisan, six-year transportation funding bill that was passed in the Senate last week will pass in the U.S. House of Representatives in the months to come. “We pushed a short-term extension for three months. I’m disappointed by that,” Capito said. “But I am heartened that for the first time in 10 years we have a multi-year bill on the table that I think we can work with the House to iron out... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) was not even born when her father, legendary Mountain State politician Arch Moore, won a seat in the state House of Delegates in 1952. She was only a little girl when he won a seat to Congress in 1956 and a teenager when he became governor in 1969. Earlier this year, Moore died at the age of 91, just one day after his daughter became West Virginia's first female U.S. senator -- and one of its most powerful politicians. Capito is now building on her father's... Read More

When four Republican freshmen were tapped to join the Senate Appropriations Committee this session, it was taken as a sign of the panel’s waning appeal in a no-earmarks era. Senators used to wait years to join the committee and even longer to rise up the ranks. Four of the once-coveted seats — and even a subcommittee chairmanship — were extended to Steve Daines of Montana, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, James Lankford of Oklahoma and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Debate could begin as soon as this week in the U.S. Senate on a proposed six-year federal highway funding bill that includes three years of guaranteed funding for the Highway Trust Fund. The proposal comes ahead of the expiration of the latest short-term extension for federal road funding on July 31. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) announced a tentative agreement, struck with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California,) the ranking Democrat on the U.S.... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., voted in favor of the agriculture appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2016, which the senators said provides funding for a number of West Virginia priorities, including rural broadband expansion and free and reduced-price school lunches. The FY2016 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill would invest in food and drug safety and provide essential nutrition assistance for children, families and... Read More

U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito voted Thursday to overhaul a decades-old education law that promises to roll back federal oversight of schools and shift more control to states and local-level educators. Manchin and Capito applauded the bipartisan effort to pass the Every Child Achieves Act, which serves as a rewrite of the outdated and now-maligned George W. Bush-era No Child Left Behind Act, which required states to develop rigorous academic standards and student assessments... Read More

HUNTINGTON - First-term U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., talked about the energy industry's fight against tightened Environmental Protection Agency regulations and the importance of a long-term solution for the nation's Highway Trust Fund during a conference call with reporters Wednesday. Capito, West Virginia's first female senator, reflected on her first six months in office and said she believes open dialogue is moving legislation at a faster pace in the Republican-controlled... Read More