119th Congress

New U.S. Rep. Riley Moore got himself appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, and now he is backing the trade tariffs enacted by President Donald Trump as a means to right the economy.

“I will say it was harder for me to get on the House Appropriations Committee than to win my general election,” Moore told those gathered for a business leaders lunch Thursday morning at Oglebay Park’s Wilson Lodge. “And it’s for a reason.

“Everybody wants on there. I’m the only freshman Republican or Democrat in the entire Congress who is on the Appropriations Committee.”

WEIRTON, W.Va. — U.S. Congressman Riley Moore visited Weirton on Wednesday to meet with members of the United Steel Workers Local 2911 chapter. The discussion focused on the future of the organization and the anticipated transformer facility set to open in the area.

"This is a really exciting opportunity here in Weirton where we're going to be making transformers," Moore said. "There's a huge backlog in this country and around the world on transformers, and these are going to be American-made here in Weirton, so the growth trajectory of this is huge far beyond the level of workers that you had that were producing tin here at this plant."

House Republicans are pushing legislation to ban Chinese nationals from getting student visas in the U.S.

Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., has been sounding the alarm for weeks over what he sees as the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) exploitation of the American visa program meant for studying in the U.S.

He is now expected to introduce the Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act, or the Stop CCP VISAs Act, on Friday.

A group of Congressional Republicans on Tuesday wrote a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), asking it to change its policies on transgender athletes competing against biological women.

As President Donald Trump gave his first speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday evening, many elected leaders from both Ohio and West Virginia, all Republicans, praised the president’s vision while the Democratic Party in both states said his actions will impact many hard-working Americans.

Trump addressed both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday night in his first joint address since returning to the presidency in January. His speech touched on a number of topics including border security, illegal immigration, tariffs, DOGE, the war in Ukraine and more.