Archives: ‘From Congress’

Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner supported final passage of the FY 2010 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which provides funding for the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, as well as the United States Forest Service. The measure passed last night on a bipartisan vote of 77 to 21, and will now go to conference committee with the House of Representatives.

Congressman Jim Moran, Virginia Democrat, led an effort backed by the Washington Metropolitan Congressional Delegation requesting that House conferees participating in negotiations regarding the FY ’10 Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 2647) fight to retain the federal employee provisions that were in included in the House-passed bill. These provisions mirror legislation introduced by Congressman Moran and were included at his request.

Congressman Jim Moran, Virginia Democrat, issued the following statement today regarding the use of health care co-ops as a suitable replacement for a public option in the health reform legislation being considered by Congress.

“A public health insurance option that provides a basic level of coverage is vital to enacting real health care reform.

Today, President Obama celebrated the beginning of implementation of the Post 9/11 GI Bill. This bill, through its Yellow Ribbon Programs and partnerships with colleges and universities throughout the nation, will provide our service members with the most generous educational benefits package since the original GI Bill of 1944.

The Members of the Washington Metro Area’s House Delegation -Reps. Steny H. Hoyer, Frank R. Wolf, James P. Moran, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chris Van Hollen, Donna F. Edwards and Gerald E. Connolly – applauded passage of a resolution today approving the interstate WMATA Regulation Compact in accordance with legislation authorizing $1.5 billion in federal Metro funding over ten years.

U.S. Senators Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has approved $44.2 million to jumpstart affordable rental housing programs in Virginia. Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, HUD’s new Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) provides grants to state housing finance agencies to resume affordable rental housing projects throughout the country while also creating jobs in the hard-hit construction industry.

U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Jim Webb announced that the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 approved by the Senate on an 87-7 vote Thursday includes language that directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to study the feasibility of adding the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford to the list of monuments and historic sites owned and operated by the U.S. National Park Service.