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Washington, DC – Today, on World Parkinson’s Day, U.S. Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and Jen Kiggins (R-VA) and Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bipartisan and bicameral resolution to designate April as “Parkinson’s Awareness Month.” Wexton announced last year that she had been diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), an atypical parkinsonism ... Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and U.S. Representative Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10), alongside U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA-8), Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11), and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7), wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, strongly urging the immediate designation of Vladimir Kara-Murza as a wrongfully detained U.S. n... Read More »

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) celebrated that eight small-scale transportation infrastructure projects in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District will receive a total of $11,927,128 in federal funding allocated by The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB). This funding is part of federal Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TA Set-Aside) Program fundi... Read More »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) voted to pass a package of six funding bills that helps Americans with the cost of living, protects women’s rights, reinforces America’s global leadership, and helps our communities be safe and secure. “Despite the extremism and dysfunction of House Republicans, we’ve finally come together to pass government funding packages that deliver... Read More »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) introduced the Personal Needs Allowance (PNA) Modernization Act to increase benefits for Medicaid beneficiaries in nursing home facilities. The bill would double the federal floor of the Personal Needs Allowance from $30 per individual and $60 per couple to $60 per individual and $120 per couple, and index the amount to inflation going f... Read More »

Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) issued the following statement on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to Congress this evening: “Throughout my more than two decades of public service, I've seen firsthand the America that Joe Biden spoke about tonight – a place where families in every community are fighting to give their kids a brighter future, where our leaders can come together ... Read More »

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 District. “I’m pro... 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 local projects, i... 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 cures for childhood cancer o... 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 Pioneering Rai... 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 parkinsonisms can be d... 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 the Bipartisan... 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 that teen... 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 a part of... 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 (R-CA). It now goes... Read More »