Senate Seat: Capito has proved she works for us
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West Virginia needs a strong, powerful voice in Washington, D.C., now more than ever -- someone who has proved she can build relationships, earn influence, reach across the aisle when necessary and speak up for US.
For nearly 25 years, Shelley Moore Capito has built relationships across our nation's capital and learned what it takes to represent a small state without getting lost in the swamp.
Today she is chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, working toward "policies that protect vital West Virginia energy and manufacturing jobs and encourage investment in West Virginia's highway infrastructure," as her office put it.
Capito, a Republican, is a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; the powerful Appropriations Committee; and the Committee on Rules and Administration. She also serves as the fourth-ranking Republican in Senate leadership, chairing the Senate Republican Policy Committee. She has a voice in helping lead not just our state, but our nation.
As such, she has used that voice and her influence to spur expansion of broadband access and to steer crucial resources to the Mountain State.
Her name may not be plastered on every project for which she's secured funding, but here's a sampling of Congressionally Directed Spending that is making a difference in our communities because of Capito's efforts:
* $22,470,000 for the City of Weirton Water Capacity expansion project;
* $546,292 for the Wheeling Elm Run Flash Flooding and Stormwater Management Project;
* $3,042,000 for the Crittenton's Center for Young Women and Children;
* $500,000 for a Wetzel County 911 storage facility;
* $3,580,000 for hospital bed capacity expansion at Sistersville General Hospital;
* a total of $5,700,000 for Parkersburg Marrtown Road improvements;
* $2,200,000 for the Elkins Library renovation and expansion;
* millions upon millions for projects and research support at West Virginia University;
* $5,485,000 for Mon Health medical critical infrastructure upgrades;
* $1,600,000 for the Berkeley County Westside Water Main;
* and $1,500,000 for Mountaineer Recovery Village.
That is but a fraction of the list.
Among her legislative accomplishments, Capito helped write the transportation and water infrastructure legislation that became the foundation of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law in 2021. That provided more than $3 billion in highway funding and $506 million specifically for bridges in West Virginia over five years.
She also helped lead passage of the bipartisan ADVANCE Act, signed into law in 2024, to reduce regulatory costs and improve the licensing process for advanced nuclear reactors. Among its provisions is a requirement to develop a pathway for licensing nuclear facilities at retired power plant sites -- an opportunity with particular relevance to West Virginia.
Presidential administrations change (Capito has worked with four of them) and political winds shift, but Capito is a proven common-sense, principled conservative whose priority to put West Virginians first has never changed.
She knows our challenges. She knows what we need. She knows where we want to go -- and she has spent years listening, working and aiming to get us there.
West Virginians have repeatedly chosen Capito to represent them -- first in Charleston and now in Washington, D.C.
Her experience is a plus. But her track record for putting West Virginia first and working for ALL of us is why we encourage voters to do so again as we endorse Shelley Moore Capito for U.S. Senate on Nov. 3.