Press Releases

To watch Senator Capito’s remarks, click here or on the image above.  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, delivered remarks at the weekly Senate Republican Leadership press conference on the need for President Biden to earnestly negotiate a debt ceiling solution, and engage in bipartisan compromise that he has previously claimed to champion.HIGHLIGHTS:SUPPORTING THE HOUSE’S EFFORTS:... Read More

To watch Senator Capito’s questioning, click here or the image above. WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, today questioned U.S. Secretary of the Army Hon. Christine Wormuth and U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville on the U.S. Army’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. During the hearing, Senator Capito asked about the effectiveness of American munitions in support of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) reintroduced the Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act, legislation to improve the way patients receive care for mental illness in emergency departments. The bipartisan bill would establish a competitive grant program for emergency departments to adopt more collaborative and connected mental health care models and deploy new technology to better connect patients... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chris Coons (D-Dele.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) this week introduced a bipartisan Senate resolution – led by Senator Graham – urging the Biden Administration to designate Vladimir Kara-Murza as wrongfully detained under United States law.Kara-Murza, a permanent resident of the United States, was... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — 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, today announced $12,914,643 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for two southern West Virginia community action organizations. “This funding from HHS will help strengthen the educational foundation of our youth in southern West Virginia and provide... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senators Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) this week reintroduced their bipartisan bill, the Forest Incentives Program Act, to help landowners make forest management more affordable and provide them with feasible options to preserve their land. With financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), private forest owners would be encouraged to employ environmentally conscious forest management techniques.... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — 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, today announced $300,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for the West Virginia Community and Technical College System on behalf of New River Community and Technical College. This funding, which was secured through a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) request by Senator Capito,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee (EPW), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), also a member of the EPW Committee, this week led the EPW Committee in advancing two bipartisan bills to improve our nation’s recycling and composting systems by a voice vote. Last week, Capito, Carper, and Boozman introduced both pieces of legislation, the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a letter – led by U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) – to the Biden administration's Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson. The letter expressed the senators’ outrage at Thompson's proposal to penalize Americans who have managed their money responsibly in order to subsidize high-risk borrowers with low credit.“This shortsighted and... Read More

To watch Senator Capito’s remarks, click here or on the image above.  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, delivered remarks at the weekly Senate Republican Leadership press conference on the need for permitting reform, and the negative impact that red-tape delays are creating across the country.Earlier today, the EPW... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — 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, today announced a $5,239,853 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded to Coalfield Community Action Partnership, Inc. for Head Start Programs in West Virginia. “This funding from HHS will help strengthen the educational foundation of our youth in Mingo County, and... Read More

Click here or the image above to watch Round 1 of Ranking Member Capito’s questions. Click here to watch Round 2. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, participated in the Senate’s first hearing to discuss the need for substantive reforms to America’s permitting and environmental review processes, and what it means for employers, workers, and... Read More

Click here or the image above to watch Ranking Member Capito’s opening remarks from the committee hearing. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held the Senate’s first hearing to discuss the need for meaningful reforms to America’s permitting and environmental review processes, an issue Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has championed in order to make it easier to build and complete transportation, infrastructure, and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a business meeting to consider the nomination of Joseph Goffman to be an Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), along with every Republican, voted against Goffman’s nomination. Ranking Member Capito has previously voiced her strong opposition to Goffman’s nomination, including at... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) today introduced the Global Aircraft Maintenance Safety Improvement Act, legislation that seeks to level the playing field for foreign repair stations.There are nearly 1,000 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified maintenance and repair stations operating outside the United States. These stations service American aircraft, but many operate at a far lower safety standard than their... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $99,412 for the EdVenture Group in Morgantown, W.Va. through the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). “Finding innovative ways to prepare the next generation of West Virginia’s leaders is critical to our state’s future, and it’s great to see the Appalachian... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) recently joined a group of 18 Republican colleagues – led by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) – in introducing a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related to attacks on law enforcement, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses. The Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act resolves discrepancies brought on by conflicting court decisions and clarifies... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) traveled to Kanawha and Wood counties to visit with business, health, and education leaders in West Virginia. In the morning, Senator Capito toured the US Methanol “Liberty One” methanol plant, the first in the state, and later delivered remarks at an event celebrating the company’s success in West Virginia so far. Liberty One was originally located in Rio de Janerio, Brazil where it was dissembled,... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $939,500 for the Upper Greenbrier River Watershed Fish Passage, funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.“Overseeing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in the Environment and Public Works Committee gives us an opportunity to identify areas across West Virginia to... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) last week introduced the bipartisan Rural Decentralized Water Systems Reauthorization Act (S. 1233), legislation that would expand and strengthen the USDA Rural Decentralized Water Systems Program to provide support for low- and moderate-income households to install or upgrade their water well and wastewater systems.“Strengthening our infrastructure throughout West Virginia has been and remains... Read More