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Capito: 2025 earmarks gone with spending bill

MORGANTOWN -- If your community is expecting big money from Washington for your favorite project, it may be time to move on. There’s a good chance it’s not coming. Senator Shelley Moore Capito’s office confirmed to The Dominion Post on Friday that the congressionally directed ...

Capito secures funds for substance use treatment, family services

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 (Labor-HHS), announced five funding awards from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

New WVU robotics engineering program scores $1 million NASA grant

MORGANTOWN – WVU's new robotics engineering program is slated to receive a $1 million NASA grant. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin separately announced the funding, obtained by them through Congressionally Directed Spending requests and included in the Fiscal Year 2024 funding ...

Belly up to the trough — it’s a feeding frenzy

When it comes to promoting their re-elections and rewarding special interests, lawmakers love few things more than raiding the treasury. Year after year, the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste performs a vital service and tracks how lawmakers make a mockery of the political ...