Press Releases

 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, yesterday hosted U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao in West Virginia to learn more about the state’s infrastructure challenges and opportunities. Senator Capito and Secretary Chao also spoke at the Huntington Regional Chamber of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Appropriations Committee, today announced $2,414,000 for West Virginia through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Brownfields Program. Funding will support the remediation of environmental hazards present at several properties in the state, as well as assessments to determine further sites that need to be remediated in the future to be put back into productive... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $3,343,985 for the Kanawha County Board of Education from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This funding will support Head Start programs in Kanawha County. “Head Start helps ensure West Virginia children have a strong educational foundation so able to succeed when they enter grade school. Our children deserve the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) today reintroduced legislation with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to authorize the current United States Postal Service (USPS) Alzheimer’s research stamp for an additional six years, providing more time to raise additional Alzheimer’s research funds for the National Institutes of Health. Approximately 5.8 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s... Read More

 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)—the most senior Republican and Democratic female senators—along with a bipartisan group of female colleagues for a tribute commemorating the 100th anniversary of Senate passage of what would become the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Following passage by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and three-fourths of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today announced that they are cosponsoring bipartisan legislation that would crack down on manufacturers and traffickers of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is ravaging communities throughout the United States. The Fentanyl Sanctions Act would be the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Appropriations Committee, today announced $11,128,449 for several community health centers in West Virginia through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Center Program. Funding will support primary health care services in several counties across southern, central, and eastern West Virginia. “Community health centers are a vital component of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $3,333,333 from the U.S. Department of Labor to provide job training and employment services across West Virginia. The funding comes from the Department of Labor’s National Health Emergency Dislocated Worker program, which seeks to provide services to areas of the country that have suffered health and economic damage from the opioid... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced a $100 million grant for the West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH). The grant was awarded through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects (NSFLTP) program, and funding will... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Appropriations Committee, today announced $36,104 for the Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Health Education and Research Institute through the Health Resources and Services Administration. Funding will support traineeships for nurses to become nurse anesthetists. “Nurses are essential to providing quality health care in all areas of our state,” Senator Capito... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today hosted White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council Executive Director Scott Turner and a number of officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for a series of roundtable discussions focused on economic development. Together with several groups of local leaders from the public and private... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) issued the following statement in observance of Memorial Day on Monday: “As the daughter of a World War II veteran, I observe Memorial Day with a humble awareness of the price of freedom and safety that we enjoy every day. As we celebrate the holiday weekend, I want to thank all the individuals and families who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country and the principles and ideals that make it so great. We owe you... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) introduced the Steel Industry Preservation Act, legislation to help support jobs in this economically important industry while also improving the environment. The bipartisan bill would eliminate an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-designated hazardous waste and save energy by incentivizing the production of steel industry fuel. “The steel... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today joined a bipartisan group of colleagues to introduce legislation that would support military mothers by ensuring women serving in the National Guard and Reserves can take maternity leave without worrying about how it will affect their creditable military service. The bill, the Mothers of Military Service (MOMS) Leave Act, would allow women service members of the reserve components to receive pay and points towards... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today introduced the Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation (SOAR) Act, legislation to improve the permitting process for outfitters, educational organizations, and community groups to access and enjoy our public lands. “By reducing the bureaucratic red tape of duplicative and ever-changing permitting requirements, the SOAR Act will make it easier for West Virginians and others to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)—a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee—today voted to pass the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, bipartisan legislation she co-sponsored to help stop and deter illegal and predatory robocalls. The bill would give regulators more time to find scammers, increase civil forfeiture penalties for those caught, promote call authentication and blocking... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today announced that the U.S. Air Force has agreed to reimburse the City of Martinsburg $4,915,628 for expenses related to the 2016 cleanup of certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the city’s water supply. “I’m so thrilled that the Air Force has finally put forward an agreement that will help recuperate the significant costs Martinsburg incurred during the cleanup of their water... Read More

 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a leader on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today participated in a committee hearing examining legislation to address the risks and challenges associated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—including three of her bills. “Unfortunately, these issues are all too familiar to West Virginia … With my constituents in mind, I have engaged in several pieces of legislation... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today introduced Frank W. Volk, President Donald Trump’s nominee for District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. Senator Capito recommended Volk to the president who announced the decision to nominate him in April 2019. “Based on his experience as a judge, as an educator, and his service to our federal court... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Broad bipartisan support is continuing to grow for the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA), legislation U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced last week to improve the accuracy of broadband coverage maps and better direct federal funds for broadband buildout. The bill—which is co-sponsored by Senators Brian Schatz (D- Hawai‘i), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Jon Tester (D-Mont.)—would require broadband providers to report data in a way that... Read More