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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Biden Administration is hitting the brakes on new approvals for Liquified Natural Gas exports. While they say it won’t impact existing trade with our allies - Republicans are sounding the alarm. “President Biden is trying to commit energy suicide,” said Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. “He is choosing Putin over Pennsylvania,” said Senator Shelley Moore-Capito (R-WV) “He’s choosing the Ayatollah over Appalachia.” They’re calling on Biden to lift the ban. White House... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has a bill that would undo the Biden administration’s pause on approving new export terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Capito introduced the Natural Gas Export Expansion Act a year ago. Last month, the U.S. Energy Department said it would stop considering new applications for LNG export terminals to countries with which the United States does not have a free trade agreement. Capito opposes the policy but said it would be difficult to get her bill past the... Read More

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced a bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) Joint Resolution of Disapproval Wednesday to nullify a November 2023 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) rule that imposes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions performance measures on state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), despite lacking the authority from Congress to do so. “The FHWA’s GHG... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The American Farm Bureau Federation and West Virginia Farm Bureau recently presented U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) with the Golden Plow award on Jan. 29, the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. The Golden Plow Award is given to members of Congress who demonstrate exemplary agricultural leadership. Recipients are chosen based on their philosophies and record in advocating for agriculture policies supported by Farm Bureau, the private... Read More

West Virginia’s U.S. Senators are pushing back on the Biden administration’s effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito have co-sponsored a resolution to overturn a Federal Highway Administration rule on emissions targets. The rule, made final in November, requires state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to set declining emissions targets. Both Capito and Manchin argue the agency lacks the authority... Read More

On Wednesday, Feb. 7, Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., ranking member of EPW’s Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, introduced a Congressional Review Act joint resolution of disapproval to overturn FHWA’s greenhouse gas performance measures. The resolution is co-sponsored by all but two Republican senators (Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio). Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is the... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia is among 22 states that have signed on to a letter “strongly urging” the Biden Administration to reconsider the decision to pause the permitting process for future liquefied natural gas exports, according to Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. The letter contends the U.S. Energy Department lacks the authority to enact such pause and that it should have instead been approved by lawmakers in Congress. “This administration is going full-throttle on its... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), all members of the Senate 340B bipartisan working group, released a legislative discussion draft that would make updates to the 340B program. Last year, the Senate 340B working group sought input on bipartisan policy solutions that would provide stability and transparency to the 340B program to ensure the program... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVDN) – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a leader on the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the below statement on the national security supplemental funding bill text that was unveiled tonight. “I have said repeatedly that I am supportive of efforts to craft a national security supplemental that assists our allies abroad, such as Israel and Ukraine, as well as the national security challenges we face here at home. The border is one of those challenges. In... Read More

In a recent press conference, leading Senate Republicans, including Dr. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, accused the Biden administration of prioritizing student debt relief over their fundamental responsibility to update the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The accusations follow the troubled launch of the new FAFSA, marked by technical glitches and errors that have prompted delays in aid distribution to colleges and universities. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), as well as U.S. Reps. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) and Mike Carey (R-Ohio), reintroduced the Credit for Caring Act. This bill would provide up to a $5,000 federal tax credit for eligible and working family caregivers. Capito and her colleagues announced... Read More

Leading Senate Republicans accused Biden administration officials of focusing on student debt relief at the expense of their core responsibility to update the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which they said contributed to the troublesome rollout of the new form. “President Biden and Secretary Cardona, you need to explain why the American people are having to live with the consequences of this administration’s upside-down priorities,” Dr. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said at a press... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) released the below statement after reviewing the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) initial findings for the Charleston Processing and Distribution Center Mail Processing Facility Review (MPFR). Senator Capito has remained active on this issue, and has spoken personally with Postmaster General DeJoy and other local officials on the matter. “I have reviewed USPS’s initial findings of the Processing and Distribution Center in... Read More

A Congressional watchdog has launched an inquiry into the Biden administration’s delayed rollout of the new federal financial aid application, according to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). Cassidy, the top GOP member of the Senate education committee, said Thursday that the Government Accountability Office had agreed to Republicans’ request for an investigation into the Education Department’s handling of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The administration’s rollout of the new FAFSA... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — The Biden administration’s recent decision to pause the permitting process for future liquefied natural gas exports is an election-year stunt, according to U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. Capito, during her weekly press briefing Thursday, said the move is meant to entice members of the “young environmental community” into supporting President Joe Biden’s re-election bid later this year. “It seems to be a universal thought that this is a hat-tip to his young... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito is among the Senate Republicans who are demanding that President Biden’s national security funding package for Ukraine, Israel and Tawain [sic] be tied to policy changes to address the southern border crisis. Capito (R-W.Va.) said during a Thursday call with reporters that negotiators are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, but she hasn’t seen the final text yet. “It will have... Read More

ENERGYWIRE | The Biden administration is banking on nuclear energy to reach climate goals, but the industry faces consequential hurdles before it can get the next generation of reactors off the ground. Over the past year, the country gained its first new nuclear power plant built from start to finish in this century and saw numerous developers unveil plans to build small modular reactors. But the cancellation of a flagship project from NuScale Power also raised questions of whether the economics... Read More

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - According to the AARP, 48 million Americans serve as caregivers for loved ones. They’re tasked with preparing meals, helping with medical needs, and making day-to-day life manageable for someone who can no longer do it on their own. All that care adds up to about $600 billion dollars in unpaid labor every year. Wednesday, lawmakers are looking to give them a helping hand. They’re introducing the Credit for Caring Act, a bill that would provide a $5k annual federal tax... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — WomenCare, Inc., of Scott Depot and Lincoln County Primary Care Center, Inc., of Hamlin, have both been awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a news release from the office of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. WomenCare, Inc. is set to receive $1,499,261 in HHS funding, while Lincoln County Primary Care Center, Inc. will receive $1,002,444 in HHS funding. Both grants are to... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), along with U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), led a bipartisan group of 57 senators in a letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), expressing their continued... Read More