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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 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

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

We have got to be more aggressive here.

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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

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

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

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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

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

Most of America would begin laughing at that.

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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

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

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

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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

Congratulations on your fairly new role as NIH Director.

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Apr 10, 2024

I think you told me last time that the--I did ask about how many trucks were being interdicted, I mean, inspected, and you noted that 70 percent, but you didn't give me an exact figure at that time.

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Apr 10, 2024

I don't think the solution to the border issue, and to bringing these astronomical numbers down is to just keep adding more people to process more people because that obviously is not going to have the desired result.

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Apr 10, 2024

I think you told me last time that the--I did ask about how many trucks were being interdicted, I mean, inspected, and you noted that 70 percent, but you didn't give me an exact figure at that time.

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Apr 10, 2024

What do you say to those airports across the country where this was cut, and you have $150,000 budgets...

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Apr 10, 2024

I concur with you, that it is not just personnel that is going to solve the challenge at our southern border...

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Apr 10, 2024

I don't think the solution to the border issue, and to bringing these astronomical numbers down is to just keep adding more people to process more people because that obviously is not going to have the desired result.

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Apr 9, 2024

I am proud of these programs, and have supported them through the appropriations process.

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Apr 9, 2024

I think we are moving in a great direction in West Virginia, very excited about the potential for that project in our home State.

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Apr 9, 2024

The United States' commitment to Israel's security is ironclad.

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Apr 9, 2024

I am proud of these programs, and have supported them through the appropriations process.

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