November 16, 2018
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $747,000 for West Virginia through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Rural Development. Funding will support the expansion of substance abuse treatment facilities in Fayette County and assist the Ceredo Volunteer Fire Department in purchasing ambulance equipment.
"I am happy to see this grant will provide critical health care to the Mountain State… Continue Reading
November 14, 2018
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced today that he will nominate 38 West Virginia students from 18 counties to the U.S. Service Academies, which include the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point.
"It is such an honor to recommend 38 of West Virginia's brightest young men and women to the U.S. service academies," Senator Manchin said. "All of our students worked … Continue Reading
October 26, 2018
Charleston, WV - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) applauded another successful Hinton Railroad Days Festival. The annual festival is hosted by the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, a 59-year old non-profit organization that operates private railroad cars through Amtrak.
This April, Amtrak announced it would no longer accept private and charter trains, which the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society uses for the Hinton Railroad Days Festival. After bringing together Amt… Continue Reading
October 17, 2018
Mineral County has been awarded a $50,000 grant for the expansion of broadband service to the Fort Ashby Business Park.
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the grant Monday, along with a total of $301,811 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for rural economic development projects in the state.
Mineral County's project, under the direction of the Mineral County Development Authority, will… Continue Reading
September 28, 2018
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ)'s call for a one-week FBI investigation.
"I applaud Senator Jeff Flake's decision to rise above the partisan circus on display during this entire process. It took courage to take a stand and call for a one-week FBI investigation to get to the bottom of the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh. This has been a partisan and divisive process. The American people have been pulled apart by this entire spec… Continue Reading
September 18, 2018
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $1,567,184 to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources to better equip emergency medical services agencies and West Virginia State Police with naloxone.
"Our first responders are on the front lines of fighting the opioid epidemic and naloxone is an immeasurably valuable resource for this fight," said U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. "Ensuring every EMS professional, our police officers and other first responders … Continue Reading
October 17, 2018
As our politics become increasingly polarized it is easy to get discourages about bipartisanship. But as Senators from West Virginia and Alaska we prove there is plenty of common ground where we can work together. Although separated by more than 3,000 miles we share a common concern for the defense and protection of Americans everywhere. With this in mind we have found numerous ways to reach across the aisle and work in the best interests of Alaskans and West Virginians.
In October 2016, Senato… Continue Reading
October 16, 2018
, has become too partisan and there is no better example of that than the topic of health care - a deeply personal, complex issue that affects every single one of us and one-sixth of the American economy. No one believes that the Affordable Care Act is perfect, including us, but both its passage, and the attempts to repeal it, reveal just how broken Washington is.
As our Constitution was being written, legend tells us of a conversation between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in which our… Continue Reading
October 15, 2018
West Virginia is ground zero for the opioid crisis, yet people often drive hundreds of miles to pill mills in other states, including Florida, which was recently the opioid capital of the world. At its height, pill mills in Florida were selling millions of pills a month. Doctors, pharmacies, distributors, drug companies, drug dealers - everyone - was getting rich. But most of the pills weren't only being bought by Floridians.
College kids, addicts and drug dealers took the "Oxy Express," a … Continue Reading
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