Press Releases

WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) today announced a grant of $1,863,702 from the Department of Health and Human Services to Valley Health Systems, Inc. in Huntington, West Virginia.

"We must ensure our health centers have the resources they need to help our communities recover from COVID-19," said Congresswoman Miller. "I am thankful that the federal government is continuing to support rural health care and is dedicated to playing a key role in keeping West Virginia, and all of America, healthy."

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined with Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) to introduce the Helping Gig Economy Workers Act of 2020 in the U.S. House of Representatives. The companion Senate bill was introduced by Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Tim Scott (R-SC). This legislation will allow businesses to provide contractors with employee assistance without being penalized by miscategorizing them as full-time employees.

Webster Echo

May 20, 2020

As West Virginia, and all of America, work to undo the effects of the pandemic and return to normalcy, it is important that we reflect on what went right, what went wrong, and how we can improve. As the old saying goes "hindsight is 20/20". We will be doomed to repeat our mistakes if we don't learn from them.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) today announced that Taiwan will donate 30,000 surgical masks to the state of West Virginia for the use in combating COVID-19.

WASHINGTON D.C. – In an op-ed published in The Hill, West Virginia Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) discussed the need for U.S. Leadership in global trade in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Congresswoman Miller explained that in order to accomplish this goal, we must bridge our rural-urban divide with improved infrastructure, develop a long-term plan to address trade with China, and reform the World Trade Organization.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined with Rep. Mike Conway (R-TX), and 37 of their Republican colleagues, to co-sponsor the Protecting Life in Crisis Act. This bill will ensure that all federal funding appropriated for COVID-19 response is prohibited from being used for abortion or abortion coverage.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) today announced that the Department of Justice is granting $4,410,710 to the West Virginia Division of Administrative Services, Justice and Community Services. This funding is part of the FY2020 Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) to states nationwide. It is a direct result of the previously passed CARES Act.