Stories tagged: "Rep. Abigail Spanberger"
Rep. Abigail Spanberger announced $100,000 in grant funding to help improve telehealth services in central Virginia. The funding, which comes from the Department of Health and Human Services, will go towards the Virginia Rural Health Association. The organization is a nonprofit that serves about 2.5 million people who live in rural areas of Virginia. Communities...
Rep. Abigail Spanberger introduced legislation to help save children in the United States from sexual exploitation and abuse. Reports of child abuse have decreased drastically since the pandemic started. Instances of abuse are often discovered in schools, on sports teams, even during visits to the doctor, but as people shelter in their homes there are...
Legislation created and introduced by Rep. Abigail Spanberger, designed to ensure that new internet broadband networks are built to provide customers with sufficient upload and download speeds, passed the House of Representatives as an amendment this month. The House bill will expand high-speed internet access across the country, and includes Spanberger’s Accessible, Affordable Internet For...
Rep. Abigail Spanberger announced $2.6 million in federal funding for Virginia hospitals to purchase additional medical equipment and support preparedness planning to fight the coronavirus. The funding from the Health and Human Services department is made possible by the CARES Act, which Spanberger supported and voted to pass back in March. According to Spanberger’s office,...
Rep. Abigail Spanberger hosted a telephone town hall Thursday night to directly address the effects of COVID-19 on central Virginia’s seniors and caregivers, making it the fifth town hall she’s hosted since the pandemic began. Callers from all across the commonwealth rang in to share their personal experiences with how COVID-19 has changed their lives...
The IRS is adding 3,500 telephone representatives to answer stimulus check questions, in part thanks to pressure from Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.). After the CARES Act passed in March, millions of Americans received stimulus checks to help deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The IRS created an online tool to give recipients...
Rep. Abigail Spanberger is leading the effort to ensure the federal government gets Americans without reliable internet service coronavirus relief funding as soon as possible. Spanberger led a group of 50 lawmakers to urge the Treasury to ensure they are making every effort to reach Americans without reliable access to the internet. The Virginia congresswoman...