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The push for stronger broadband availability across West Virginia and nationally continues. In late June, officials unveiled a $42.45 billion high-speed internet grant program known as "Internet for All” which is a big component of President Joe Biden’s "Investing in America" agenda. According to a press release from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), funding has been allocated to all 50 states, the District of... Read More

CHARLESTON — With the dispute over the Mountain Valley Pipeline likely on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito accused the federal court holding back the project of being “politicized.” Capito, R-W.Va., spoke with reporters Thursday in a virtual briefing from her offices at the U.S. Capitol. A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals based in Richmond, Va., issued two rulings earlier this week that once again halted... Read More

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals won’t be successful in stopping the long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline project, according to U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who believes the latest stay issued against the natural gas pipeline project will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court issued its latest stay against the West Virginia and Virginia-based pipeline project last week, despite the U.S. Congress approving legislation last month requiring all necessary permits be... Read More

The head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration visited the state Capitol in Charleston on Friday to discuss the $1.2 billion broadband expansion in West Virginia. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., hosted Alan Davidson, the assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, at the Capitol, where he met with Gov. Jim Justice and other state officials for a day of roundtable discussions. West Virginia will receive a $1.2 billion share of the $42... Read More

CHARLESTON — Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., a member of the Senate Appropriations and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees, has announced a total of $2,799,136 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, and U.S Department of Education to support projects throughout West Virginia. USDA FUNDING: First, Capito announced $1,999,664 in total from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support five... Read More

Plans to connect the last 300,000 locations in West Virginia with affordable internet went public on Friday.  In laying out the plan to spend more than $1.2 billion federal dollars for broadband deployment, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she asked an internet expert a few years ago what it would take to get the last West Virginian connected.    “The things he said were time and money,” Capito said. “Well, we’ve got the money now, the time... Read More

CHARLESTON — State officials reveled Friday over the massive federal allocation to expand and improve broadband access to areas lacking in West Virginia. Assistant Secretary Alan Davidson, of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, was in Charleston Friday and spoke at a press conference with Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. The state will receive $1.2 billion from the Telecommunications and Information Administration, an agency within... Read More

The head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration visited the state Capitol in Charleston on Friday to discuss the $1.2 billion broadband expansion in West Virginia. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., hosted Alan Davidson, the assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, at the Capitol, where he met with Gov. Jim Justice and other state officials for a day of roundtable discussions. West Virginia will receive a $1.2 billion share of the $42... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., didn’t mince words Thursday when asked about “Bidenomics.” “It’s simply we pay more and get less,” Capito said of Bidenomics during her weekly virtual press briefing. “You spend more and you get less. That’s been the results. Our wages are not keeping up with inflation and families are tightening their belts. Over a third of Americans feel financially as they are in worse shape this year than last year.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WV News) — In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito shared her distaste for “Bidenomics,” as well as the halting of construction work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline by a federal court in Richmond. Despite Congress moving jurisdiction over the pipeline from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit — located in Richmond — to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the former still released... Read More

West Virginia is taking steps to harness the $1.2 billion that’s coming available in federal broadband expansion investment. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., will be accompanied in West Virginia on Friday by Alan Davidson, the assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information. He’s the guy who leads the federal office over the rollout of the big broadband expansion. “We’re going to be talking about rolling out and making sure that the last... Read More

MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito talked renewed Mountain Valley Pipeline delays, Bidenomics and more with members of the West Virginia press on Thursday. On Tuesday, the U.S. 4th Circuit Appeals Court issued a stay on the MVP under the Endangered Species Act. The federal court also granted a stay of the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to allow the pipeline to be constructed through the Jefferson National Forest while the court considers The Wilderness Society’s challenge... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WBOY) — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R, WV) Wednesday addressed a term you may have heard lately—”Bidenomics.” The term is meant to summarize President Joe Biden’s economic policies. In recent weeks, the president has been using the term more as political analysts say he’s using “Bidenomics” as the foundation of his 2024 re-election campaign. But recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVDN) – On July 11, 2023, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), ranking member and chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, introduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA). This bipartisan legislation would bolster the palliative care and hospice workforce and meet the growing need for care by investing in training,... Read More

HUNTINGTON — Marshall University and West Virginia State University will split $1 million in federal funding secured by West Virginia’s senators this year. Last month, U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced they had secured $1 million in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) funding for the Marshall University Research Corporation to support research and education in cybersecurity, including... Read More

HUNTINGTON — An iconic building that housed one of Huntington’s largest historical industries will soon get new life. The building on 3rd Avenue, known colloquially as the sawtooth roof building, was built in 1949 to serve as ACF Industry’s machine shop for its Huntington location. It has been vacant for at least a decade, as ACF slowly dwindled its workforce from hundreds down to single digits since significant layoffs in 2001. The site will soon be home to the Marshall... Read More

CHARLESTON — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) delivered remarks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for the University of Charleston’s (Downtown Innovation Hub (DIH) in Charleston. Capito helped secure funding for the facility’s construction with a $1.5 million U.S. Economic Development Agency (EDA) grant in May of 2022. The UC DIH will serve to grow and accelerate existing business in Charleston. “West Virginia is open for business, and I am thrilled to... Read More

Several lawmakers excoriated a federal appeals court ruling Monday granting a coalition of environmental groups' request to block construction of a major natural gas pipeline green-lit under the bipartisan debt ceiling package passed last month. The debt ceiling bill — the so-called Fiscal Responsibility Act which suspended the limit on federal debt through early 2025 — included a provision automatically approving any outstanding federal environmental permits for the... Read More

A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ordered the project’s approval. The stay issued Monday by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond comes after Congress passed legislation last month requiring all necessary permits be issued for construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The law also stripped the 4th Circuit from jurisdiction over the case. U.S.... Read More

(LOOTPRESS) – “Numerous officials gathered at the former ACF Industries site along 3rd Avenue this morning to celebrate the Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center receiving a $550,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support the continued growth of its welding training programs, which will be moving to the former ACF site in early 2025. The Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center (formerly RCBI until recently) trains more than 700 people annually in a variety of... Read More