HENRICO, V.A. – U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger will host a telephone town hall on Monday, May 4 with business leaders and government officials to discuss the challenges facing Central Virginia small businesses, healthcare systems, and workers as the COVID-19 crisis continues. During her telephone town hall on Monday, Spanberger will deliver a brief update and answer questions about the ong... Read more »
DAILY PROGRESS (RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH), MICHAEL MARTZ Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, is part of a bipartisan congressional quartet calling on leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives to direct financial aid to counties, especially those in rural counties that haven't benefited from the stimulus package Congress adopted in late March in response to the economic calamity caused by the coronav... Read more »
CLINT SCHEMMER, CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT As the spread of the coronavirus has turned Americans’ lives upside down, it has shone “a bright spotlight,” lawmakers say, on the disparities between those with broadband access and those without. In response, a group of U.S. House members has rallied to push Congress to make a “historic investment” in high-speed internet in response to the nation’s COVID-19... Read more »
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, MICHAEL MARTZ The escalating spread of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in Virginia — and the deaths that accompany it — are intensifying the push for greater federal aid to help nursing homes and other facilities test more residents for the disease. A skilled nursing facility in Herndon, a town in Fairfax County, this week confirmed 15 deaths from COVID-19 among 64 r... Read more »
U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger will host a virtual town hall on Friday, May 1 to listen to and answer questions from Central Virginia children navigating the changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The virtual town hall will give the Seventh District’s youngest residents the opportunity to ask questions, discuss their concerns, and engage directly with their representative on issue... Read more »
HENRICO, V.A. – U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today announced her support for a bipartisan bill to expand access to critical telehealth services for Central Virginia Medicare recipients. Medicare continues to lag behind private payers, other federal health programs, and states in adapting its payment methodologies to include telehealth capabilities. For example, patients’ homes are not cl... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today joined a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives in voting to pass a coronavirus relief package that includes additional funding for Central Virginia businesses through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Last week, Spanberger urged Members of Congress in both parties to... Read more »
WAVY (NEXSTAR), BASIL JOHN On Thursday, Democrats and Republicans came together to pass the expansion of the coronavirus relief package, a move Pennsylvania Reps. Fred Keller and Dan Meuser say was overdue. “This is an important piece of legislation that should’ve been, quite frankly, done almost two weeks ago,” Keller said. “They have no understanding of how disruptive it’s been to banks, to busi... Read more »
CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT, CLINT SCHEMMER Local Congressional Dist. 7 Rep. Abigail Spanberger voted Thursday with a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a coronavirus relief package that will provide another $310 billion in loans to small businesses. By a 388-5 vote, the House supported $484 billion more in aid to employers and hospitals strained by the global pandemic tha... Read more »
CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT, CLINT SCHEMMER Nine House members with national security backgrounds, co-led by U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, have introduced a resolution to salute the service and sacrifice of front-line workers responding to the COVID-19 crisis. The nine freshmen, who were in the U.S. military or in its defense and intelligence agencies before being elected to the House, proposed the mea... Read more »
