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Christian Ward, a 13-year-old from Charles Town, met with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) about the importance of federal support for the research for the treatment and cure of Type I diabetes. Christian, who received a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes when he was 4 years old, advocated for federal law to cap the cost of insulin used by diabetics at $35 per bottle. Type I diabetes is a genetically-triggered disease that is not caused by eating habits,... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Clinic Inc. in Lewisburg is receiving $1 million in federal funding for a program that aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality of substance use disorder, including opioid use disorder, in rural communities. The money goes to the School of Osteopathic Medicine Clinic’s RCORP-MAT Access Program. The program is designed to establish new MAT — medication assisted treatment — access points, as well as... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced funding from the U.S. Departments of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland Security (DHS), Agriculture (USDA), and Labor (DOL), as well as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support economic development, education, health, and safe drinking water... Read More

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) – The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will provide Westbrook Health Services with funding. Westbrook Health Services is a licensed comprehensive behavioral healthcare facility that specializes in addiction and substance use disorder, mental health, intellectual development and disabilities, and related health services. Westbrook Health will receive $1,275,000 from HHS to support substance abuse and mental health treatment services. The... Read More

Washington D.C. (WTRF) – For anyone that’s ever seen it first-hand, having a loved one suffer from Alzheimer’s Disease is horrific. West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito, along with a group of bipartisan lawmakers, have just reintroduced a bill known as the CHANGE Act that aims to detect Alzheimer’s as early as possible. The bill would encourage a full cognitive review to be performed during “Welcome To Medicare” examinations when Americans turn... Read More

As millions of Americans still struggle with the high cost of food, gas and other basic necessities, Republicans are intensifying their attack on “Bidenomics.” During her weekly virtual briefing, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said the administration’s rush to eliminate natural gas, oil and coal is another example of how Bidenomics is causing real economic harm to Americans. “How are you going to replace coal and gas as a power source? You don’t like... Read More

CHARLESTON — Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced a total of $10,953,774 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), to support various projects throughout West Virginia. Capito secured $9,610,267 in funding from HHS to support a variety of health improvement... Read More

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its Proposed Clean Power Plan 2.0 last month, it contained what U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., refer to as “unjustifiable claims about the future availability of technologies — including carbon capture, clean hydrogen, and the related infrastructure — used to power our electric grids.” Given the inclusion of such claims, it seems perfectly reasonable Capito and Barrasso would seek... Read More

The emergency appeal filed by Mountain Valley Pipeline with the U.S. Supreme Court will likely be heard by Chief Justice John Roberts, according to U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. Capito is one of nearly a dozen lawmakers who have signed onto an amicus brief in support of Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC’s, emergency application to vacate the latest stay against the project issued by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. The natural gas pipeline project for West Virginia... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — The nation’s highest court is likely to allow construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline to resume, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Thursday. Capito, who along with the other members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation has signed an amicus brief in support of the project, said she is confident the pipeline’s developers will ultimately be given the green light to get back to work. “I think in the end, with our constitutional... Read More

WASHINGTON (WDTV) - Three of West Virginia’s top lawmakers are urging the court to restart work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Representatives Carol Miller and Alex Mooney joined six other members of Congress in support of the controversial pipe. Last week, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals halted construction of the 303 mile project., citing a pending environmental report. Appeals court orders Mountain Valley Pipeline to halt construction... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVDN) – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), along with Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), on July 19, 2023, reintroduced the Concentrating on High-Value Alzheimer’s Needs to Get to an End (CHANGE) Act, bipartisan legislation to encourage early assessment and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Companion legislation was also introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by... Read More

West Virginia state officials are developing a plan for the $1.2 billion allocated by the federal government to expand and improve broadband access to areas lacking in the state.  The money is coming from the Telecommunication and Information Administration and Assistant Secretary Alan Davidson said that, “today the internet is a necessity, not a luxury.”  The funds must first be used to bring service to areas that are unserved.  Senator Shelley Moore Capito was on... Read More

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is optimistic the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in favor of Congress’s right to pass the law to finish the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Capito said during a virtual press briefing Thursday that she is “confidently hopeful” Chief Justice John Roberts will make the decision to rule in favor of Congress after an emergency ruling by the court was requested by the MVP owner, Equitrans Midstream. The request was... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia delegation is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency opinion. The move comes after another lawsuit blocked the Mountain Valley Pipeline project shortly after legislation allowed it to continue. The fight over the Mountain Valley Pipeline project is reaching the Supreme Court after a federal court in Virginia ruled last week to halt the project. The new lawsuit by The Wilderness Society, comes after the debt ceiling... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, leader of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has announced $1.5 million for the proposed Harmony Grove interchange project off I-79 in the Fiscal Year 2024 Transportation Funding Bill. Once the budget is adopted, Harmony Grove project funds will be awarded. Senator Capito has conducted site visits to the area and Mountaintop Beverage, which will depend on the interchange to ramp up to full production and limit truck traffic on... Read More

Nine lawmakers filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in an attempt to restart construction on the long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline project. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., and U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., announced Wednesday they were joining six other members of Congress in filing an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s completion and against attempts by... Read More

West Virginia’s congressional delegation again weighed in for completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Congressman Alex Mooney and Congresswoman Carol Miller signed a brief urging the chief justice of the United States to intervene for the pipeline. Construction was halted, at least temporarily, by an appeals court panel. Then the pipeline developers filed an emergency intervention request to the chief justice. “By filing this amicus brief,... Read More

WASHINGTON — West Virginia's two senators and two U.S. representatives now have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's completion. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., filed his amicus brief on Tuesday. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and U.S. Reps. Carol Miller and Alex Mooney, both R-W.Va., as well as six other members of Congress filed a similar amicus Wednesday. The project’s developers recently filed an emergency application to Chief... Read More

MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Reps. Alex Mooney and Carol Miller have joined with six other lawmakers to file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Mountain Valley Pipeline’s effort to have the court to lift a pair of stays the federal Fourth Circuit issued last week to once again block completion of the pipeline. Their amicus – friend-of-the-court – brief comes a day after Sen. Joe Manchin filed his own. Wednesday’s brief from Capito and her... Read More