WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today voted with a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a funding package that would expand funding for rural broadband internet projects, strengthen support for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and protect Central Virginia’s natural resources. In March 2020, Spanberger led a coalition of more than 80 De... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL) today led the introduction of bipartisan legislation to maintain critical telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide much-needed funding to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Demand for telehealth services is skyrocketing amid the pandemic. Ac... Read more »
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, CHRIS GENTILVISO Before COVID-19, telehealth services largely were a novelty. The pandemic — and continued health care needs other than the coronavirus — made them essential. Federal relief measures temporarily have eased access to telehealth services. Medicare beneficiaries don’t have to prove they have a pre-existing relationship with a provider. Community health care ce... Read more »
CBS19 Representatives Abigail Spanberger, D-Va.-07, and Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., led a 41-member, bipartisan effort calling on the Federal Communications Commission to provide greater certainty and support to health care providers who offer telehealth services, according to a news release from Spanberger's team. The bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai describing how ... Read more »
NBC29 Four U.S. representatives from Virginia are working across the aisle on legislation to get computers to those who need them. U.S. Representatives Denver Riggleman (R-VA-05), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07), Rob Wittman (R-VA-01), and Elaine Luria (D-VA-02) introduced the Computers for Veterans and Students Act Friday, July 10. The act seeks to provide federal surplus and retired computers to no... Read more »
CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT, CLINT SCHEMMER Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s push to bolster high-speed internet access in communities across the country got the green light Wednesday evening from the U.S. House of Representatives. By a vote of 233 to 188, the chamber passed a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, the Moving America Forward Act, which includes the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act that... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass infrastructure-focused legislation that includes U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger’s priorities to expand high-speed internet access across the country, as well as her amendment to ensure that new broadband networks are built to provide customers with sufficient upload and download speeds. The House-passed Moving America... Read more »
HENRICO, V.A. – As the COVID-19 pandemic sheds light on internet connectivity disparities in rural America, U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger — a Member of the Rural Broadband Task Force — today helped lead the introduction of a landmark piece of legislation to expand high-speed broadband internet access in Central Virginia and across the country. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Spanberger... Read more »
AGRIPULSE, ED MAIXNER Last Sunday, as National Dam Safety Awareness Day came and went, few Americans pondered a possible disaster looming in an aging dam upstream from them. In fact, the country’s reservoirs, large and small, pose an escalating threat of engulfing or damaging towns, homes, farmsteads, processing plants, livestock facilities, highways, bridges, and any other parts of rural America ... Read more »
8News, BASIL JOHN If the U.S. government doesn’t provide new support, some lawmakers worry the United States Postal Service could fall apart. “There are challenges to their long term fiscal stability,” Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger said. Spanberger is part of a group of lawmakers calling for the postal service to be included in the next coronavirus relief package. “We need to continue to suppor... Read more »
