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January 20, 2016
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s veto of S.J.Res. 22, which would block the EPA’s implementation of the Waters of the United States rule:
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January 12, 2016
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s final State of the Union address tonight:
January 12, 2016
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) helped to pass legislation today to halt a major, new job-killing regulation, the stream buffer zone rule. H.R. 1644, the STREAM Act, passed 235-188.
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January 10, 2016
Columns
President Obama has yet again used executive overreach to force his agenda on the American people, this time through executive actions tightening gun ownership and sales. Congress has already rejected these policies through bipartisan votes, and this action is another example of the president overstepping his constitutional authority to circumvent the people’s voices in Congress.
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January 8, 2016
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) issued the following statement today after President Obama vetoed a bill to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood:
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January 5, 2016
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) issued the following statement today on President Obama’s executive actions on Second Amendment rights:
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December 11, 2015
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) thanked the Department of Veterans Affairs today for announcing its further commitment to West Virginia’s veterans by signing a lease for a new, permanent clinic in Greenbrier County.
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December 10, 2015
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) issued the following statement on West Virginia’s landmark settlement with Frontier Communications announced today:
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December 9, 2015
Columns
West Virginia has many road projects that have been long promised but never completed. Some are actually seeing progress, like Route 35 in Mason and Putnam counties, which is on schedule to be fully upgraded. Others, like the King Coal Highway, Coalfields Expressway and Tolsia Highway remain in various stages of completion – or lack thereof.
December 8, 2015
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) voted yes today on legislation to help identify and stop terrorists from entering the United States via the Visa Waiver Program.
Rep. Jenkins is also a cosponsor of H.R. 158, the Visa Waiver Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives 407-19.
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