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A look at Manchin and Capito earmarks for local projects, from $1.7T federal budget
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 6—MORGANTOWN — Earmarks have returned to Congress and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin—both Appropriations Committee members—have put out their lists of West Virginia earmarks ...
Democrats strip Manchin's permitting reform bill from must-pass government funding measure after...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDemocratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia at a hearing on Capitol Hill on September 22,...
Senate passes a new bipartisan bill that would enact the toughest new guns laws since the 1990s —...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRepublican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a member of party leadership who voted to back the new law,...
Key student-debt relief programs are at risk if Congress doesn't boost Education Department funding,...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSen. Elizabeth Warren.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren led a group of Democrats in...
Millions of student-loan borrowers will face 'catastrophic consequences' like delays in debt relief...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSEPTEMBER 20: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Seventeen Democrats wrote...
Omnibus funding to boost Concord''s medical, research programs
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 10—ATHENS — Concord University will offer a new degree program in medical training and develop a research center related to rare earth elements thanks to funding from the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations ...
Bluefield State University awarded $7.1 million federal award for health care training facility
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMar. 29—BLUEFIELD — Bluefield State University will receive a $7.145 million Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) award to support the creation of a state-of-the-art health care training ...
Walmart's PAC has quietly donated nearly $1 million to campaigns ahead of the midterms. While the...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLeigh Vogel Pool/Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Michael Brochstein/SOPA...
Senate overcomes filibuster threat on marriage equality bill, putting it on track for Biden's...
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPride flags Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images The Senate on Wednesday evening voted 62 to 37 to move...
Why Biden is hedging on a climate emergency declaration
The Week via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPresident Joe Biden Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images The scenery: epic. The subject:...