CHARLESTON – It was a rainy day on Charleston’s West Side, but that didn’t stop a group of largely women volunteers from coming out Wednesday afternoon to meet Rachel Fetty Anderson, the Democratic challenger to Republican U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito. Meeting at The Element Edge, a ...
MORGANTOWN – Longtime community activist Ace Parsi chose Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday to announce his run for U.S. Congress. Parsi, a Democrat, is seeking the 2nd District seat currently occupied by Republican Riley Moore. “This is my love letter to American ...
Congress is without a speaker, and Congressman Alex Mooney has a blunt assessment. “It was a rough day.” For the first time in history, the House of Representatives voted to oust the speaker, Kevin McCarthy. Eight Republicans joined all the congressional Democrats in the 216-210 ...
MORGANTOWN -- On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed a bill to raise the United States’ debt ceiling, narrowly avoiding a default on the country’s debt Oct. 18. If Congress had failed to pass a resolution, the resulting debt default would have meant serious financial and ...
MORGANTOWN – The Office of Congressional Ethics has found that Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., misspent campaign money on himself and has referred its report to the House Ethics Committee, according to CQ Roll Call, a Capitol Hill publication. The OCE has not yet released its report, but Roll ...
So much for quaint notions of bipartisanship. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell this week bluntly admitted what should long have been obvious: He views partisan politics as a zero-sum game in which the only goal is to seize power from the opposing party by any means necessary. In an ...