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US Sen. Mark Warner (D–Va.) and Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (D–4th) were in Richmond Monday to announce an $850,000 congressional earmark for stormwater management improvements in the Shockoe Creek watershed.
Specifically, the funding will go to improvements around The Shockoe Project, the wide-ranging effort to honor and memorialize the history of enslaved people in Richmond.
Warner and McClellan each presented an oversized check to a crowd in Main Street Station, home of the project's Shockoe Institute.
The big, yard-long check that Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-4th, brought from Washington to help protect Shockoe Bottom sites that tell the story of slavery marked one step in a long, long journey, Warner said.
There is little that unites Republicans and Democrats these days. From the economy to immigration to tax policy, seeking common ground can be challenging. But long before we joined Congress, we had the same formative experience: an American childhood full of fun and freedom.
The kind of childhood that made us resilient, curious and creative.
Congressional Democrats are accusing Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr of leveraging merger reviews and broadcast licensing decisions to push companies to scrap diversity initiatives, raising alarms about political pressure inside a powerful independent regulator.
Once upon a time, kids walked to school, played in the neighborhood park and made a few bucks babysitting, but there have been enough calls to social workers complaining that these amount to child neglect to start Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-4th, thinking some clarity might help.
Steep reductions in federal health care funding mean big cuts in emergency mental health, housing and food help for some of Richmond’s sickest people, the Health Brigade free clinic says.
And Richmonders who may be sick with HIV, sexually transmitted infections or tuberculosis may never know until it's too late because there’s no money for community testing programs.
As she worked to build a career in marketing in New York City, Laura Buller let a number of medical issues go unattended, not seeking care because she didn’t have health insurance.
Then, after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, that changed.
“I was amazed at the sudden change in my insurance options,” Buller said. “I was actually able to get care. There were many issues that I was putting on the backburner that I was able to finally address. And I believe without that, I would have been hospitalized multiple times. I’d probably be in significant debt.”
U.S. Representative Jennifer McClellan joined advocates and nonprofits in calling on her Republican colleagues to protect access to health care Monday, which marked the 16th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
On the 16th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Virginia leaders and health care advocates are sounding the alarm over rising costs and shrinking coverage options for thousands of residents.
During a virtual press conference on Monday, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (D, VA-04) joined advocacy groups to call on Congress to restore federal tax credits that helped make health insurance more affordable.
Health care continues to be a sticking point in Washington and Richmond, as state and federal lawmakers clash over funding Obamacare subsidies that expired last year.
Sixteen years ago this week, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. Since that time, more than a million uninsured Virginians have been able to get health insurance.