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Shelley Moore Capito

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Shelley Moore Capito is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from West Virginia since January 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she is the first woman to represent West Virginia in the U.S. Senate. Prior to her Senate career, Capito served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2015, representing West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. Throughout her political career, she has focused on issues such as economic development, infrastructure, and healthcare.

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Apr 16, 2024

I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

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Apr 16, 2024

The Department of Labor should be focused on workforce training and creating new jobs, not mandating new burdens.

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Apr 16, 2024

Investments in biomedical research are so important for the future of our country.

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Apr 16, 2024

This rule pressures financial experts to shift potential gains away from American retirees, and into the White House's radical climate agenda.

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Apr 15, 2024

In my opinion, this really politicizes a really important part of our financial fabric in this country.

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Apr 15, 2024

We have got to do better here. I mean, we are really losing a generation.

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Apr 15, 2024

You have the ability to withdraw funding if it looks like these things are--that is some of the hardest things to do, as we know.

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Apr 15, 2024

COVID is over. It has been over for over a year now.

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Apr 15, 2024

I am hopeful that we will, once again, be able to come together and produce a bipartisan 2025 bill.

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Apr 15, 2024

Healthcare delivery systems in rural America are still very difficult and underfunded; we have the lowest life expectancies in rural America.

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Apr 15, 2024

I mean, I would recommend this, put this on the front of your page on best way to deal with anti-semitism on campus.

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Apr 15, 2024

In my view, the best way to keep our retirees... is to have the maximum financial benefit accrue to their plans.

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Apr 15, 2024

I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets.

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Apr 15, 2024

West Virginia needs fewer inefficient and expensive regulations and more job creation.

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Apr 15, 2024

most of America would begin laughing at that.

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Apr 15, 2024

We have got to be more aggressive here.

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Apr 15, 2024

This rule pressures financial experts to shift potential gains away from American retirees, and into the White House's radical climate agenda.

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Apr 15, 2024

Do you have a firm and affirmative oversight plan to make sure that, you know, you are redirecting funds if somebody has got an idea that is not going to work let us move on?

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Apr 15, 2024

I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

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Apr 15, 2024

The Department of Labor should be focused on workforce training and creating new jobs, not mandating new burdens.

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Apr 15, 2024

You have also worked on forgiving a whole lot of student debt, that has diverted a lot of your resources into this.

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Apr 15, 2024

No student should feel unsafe on their campus, yet just last week Columbia University had to move classes online.

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Apr 15, 2024

I mean, how do you justify a 65 percent increase in this when it was just increased, I guess, what, 4 years ago under the Trump administration?

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