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Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced $14,996,550 in Community Project Funding that she secured for Virginia’s 10th District in the 2024 spending bills. This funding, included in the first of the appropriations government funding packages set to be voted on this week, responds directly to some of the most pressing needs and priorities in the 10th… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) voted to pass the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, a package of six domestic spending bills focused on providing crucial support to families and communities across the country. The bill includes $14,996,550 in Community Project Funding (CPF) for Virginia’s 10th District that will go to directly support a variety of… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton’s (D-VA) Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0, which would reauthorize federal funding for the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First), which has supported lifesaving pediatric research of treatments and… Read more »

Manassas, VA – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced $1,499,375 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to advance new innovative and environmentally friendly high-energy storage solutions at Aurora Flight Sciences in Manassas. This funding is a part of a larger $15 million, 12-project package through the… Read more »

Sterling, VA – Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) applauded the beginning of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) project to remove trichloroethylene (TCE) chemicals at the Hidden Lane Landfill Superfund site in Sterling. The cleanup is made possible thanks to federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. “I know firsthand how Parkinson’s Disease and atypical… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced that Washington Dulles International Airport will be receiving $35 million in federal funding thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to aid in the construction of a new 14-gate regional and commuter terminal. This is the third consecutive fiscal year that the new terminal project has received funding through… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), along with co-leads Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), and Madeleine Dean (D-PA), introduced a bipartisan resolution to officially designate February as “Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.” The resolution, introduced today on Valentine’s Day, recognizes the damaging effects… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced nearly $1.8 million in new federal grants to support housing assistance and supportive services to Virginians battling homelessness: $174,319 for Loudoun County and $1,621,003 for Prince William County. The funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Continuum of Care program as… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to pass Representative Jennifer Wexton’s (D-VA) Divided Families National Registry Act, which aims to help Korean Americans reconnect with the families they left behind in North Korea decades ago in the wake of the Korean War. Wexton introduced the bipartisan bill last week alongside Representative Michelle Steel… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and Michelle Steel (R-CA) introduced the bipartisan Divided Families National Registry Act to help Korean Americans reunite with their families in North Korea who they have not been able to connect with since the Korean War. The legislation would create a new national registry of Korean Americans and their families… Read more »