| June 29, 2022
By Warren Fiske
Meat prices are soaring and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) wonders whether there’s been collusion among the nation’s largest meat-packing corporations.
| June 28, 2022
By Matthew Torres
Following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Republican candidate for the 7th Congressional District in Virginia is receiving pushback over remarks she made seemingly casting doubt on how often rape victims become pregnant.
| June 27, 2022
By Meagan Flynn
Yesli Vega — the GOP nominee in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District vying to unseat Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) — drew outrage Monday after audio published by Axios Richmond appeared to capture her theorizing inaccurately about why rape might not lead to pregnancy in a conversation about abortion and exceptions to abortion bans.
| June 24, 2022
By InsideNova Staff
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger today released a statement after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, which was handed down earlier this morning. The decision reverses nearly 50 years of abortion protection.
| June 24, 2022
By Clint Schemmer
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved Rep. Abigail Spanberger's proposal for a long-term community response to the alarming rise in fentanyl and other opiate deaths.
| June 20, 2022
By Ursula Perano
Rep. Abigail Spanberger found herself increasingly frustrated with her party’s failure to acknowledge the threat of inflation until it was already seemingly out of control.
| June 17, 2022
By Meagan Flynn
The Washington Post asked Democratic and Republican candidates in Virginia’s three competitive congressional districts — the 2nd, 7th and 10th — to participate in a survey about how they believed the nation should respond to the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Tex., and to explain their positions on various gun proposals in Congress. The results are provided here as a resource to voters. The survey is attached to an article about the role gun control and gun rights are likely to play in the midterm election.
| June 16, 2022
By Meagan Flynn
Eight years ago, Rep. Abigail Spanberger left the CIA and soon became a rookie grass-roots activist with her local Virginia chapter of Moms Demand Action, looking to get involved in politics for the first time. Now, the two-term congresswoman is trying to hang on to her seat in a year when gun violence prevention and responding to mass shootings are dominating debates in Congress and likely to spill over into the November midterms.
| June 16, 2022
By Michael Martz
The day after the Federal Reserve Bank dramatically raised a key interest rate to curb inflation, Virginia politicians and economists looked for a path to lower gas and food prices, stronger domestic supply chains and an economy that’s growing instead of shrinking.
| June 16, 2022
By Clint Schemmer
When the U.S. House of Representatives acted Thursday to give American consumers some relief from higher grocery and gasoline prices and strained food supplies, it wrapped three bills by Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, into the package.
| June 16, 2022
By hannah Brandt
The U.S. House passed the “Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act” on Thursday. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., led the push for the package in the house. The legislation targets consolidation in the meat packing industry, makes cheaper E-15 biofuel more widely available and lowers fertilizer prices for farmers.
| June 16, 2022
By Release from the Office of Abigail Spanberger
A bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass legislation led by U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger to lower costs at the grocery store, reduce gas prices, strengthen food supply chains, and increase competition in the American meat industry.
| June 16, 2022
By Rep. Abigail Spanberger , Brooke Miller
Over the last year, meat prices have gone up by 15 percent for Americans — meaning higher prices for the beef they’ll grill, smoke, and barbeque this summer.
| June 6, 2022
By The Daily Progress Editorial Board
Virginia Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger is helping kead a legislative effort to curb gun violence that shows why the Lugar Center for cooperative government just named her one of the most bipartisan members of Congress.
| June 2, 2022
By Rep. Abigail Spanberger
We all watched in horror. Last week, the tight-knit community of Uvalde, Texas, was ravaged by a mass shooting at an elementary school. Two teachers and 19 children were slaughtered in their fourth-grade classroom at the hands of an 18-year-old armed with an assault-style rifle. Parents received the worst news they will ever hear: “Your baby is gone.”
| June 1, 2022
By Nolan Stout
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, said “no child should live in fear of being murdered in their classroom.” She said legislators can take “common sense steps” to “reduce risk and keep our communities safe.” Spanberger offered several pieces of legislation that have yet to pass Congress, although some have passed the House of Representatives. One would close loopholes for online and gun show purchases. Another would extend time periods for certain background checks.
| May 26, 2022
By Brendan King
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Henrico) said the American Rescue Plan and Infrastructure bills largely supported and passed by Democrats included the first time that broadband was classified and discussed as a utility much like electricity and water.
| May 25, 2022
By Bryan Metzger
Banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks is incredibly popular among average Americans. Democrats and Republicans alike have introduced bills to do just that. Both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who lead the Democrat- controlled Congress, have signaled varying degrees of support.
| May 19, 2022
By Dryden Quigley
7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger says she agrees with President Joe Biden’s actions to pump up the supply of baby formula through the Defense Production Act.
| May 18, 2022
By Nick Minock & Associated Press
President Biden officially invoked the Defense Production Act and launched the Operation Fly Formula Wednesday to speed up the import of infant formula and get more formula to stores as soon as possible.
| May 19, 2022
By Victor Reklaitis
A China competition bill, addressing inflation, further COVID-19 funding, Big Tech antitrust legislation and more. U.S. lawmakers face a big to-do list before they take their August recess and then focus primarily on November’s midterm elections, but advocates for a ban on congressional trading of individual stocks sound upbeat about lawmakers managing to deliver on that issue.
| May 16, 2022
By Martin Davis
ON SATURDAY, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who represents Virginia’s 7th District, opened her new campaign headquarters in downtown Fredericksburg. With her arrival, the call to “start your engines” has been made on what quite possibly will be one of the most-watched congressional races in the United States.
| May 13, 2022
By Clint Schemmer
As 2022’s National Police Week began across the country, Rep. Abigail Spanberger reflected on the service and sacrifice of Virginians who put on the badge. The week is observed Wednesday, May 11, through Tuesday, May 17.
| May 11, 2022
By The Central Virginian Staff
U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger, who represents Louisa County in the 7th District, said on May 12 that she had spoken with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain this week about the urgency of the nationwide baby formula shortage.
| May 7, 2022
By Chris Gentilviso
On Tuesday morning, traffic was heavy on state Route 106/609, near the border between New Kent and Charles City counties. Cars lined up on the southbound side of the highway to make a left turn onto Barnetts Road, yielding to a vehicle from Atlantic Bulk Carrier — the largest tank-truck carrier in Virginia. The driver patiently executed the wide turn, making the tough maneuver look easy. At the 51-year-old company’s headquarters just down Barnetts Road, top voices in the commonwealth’s trucking industry joined Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, to discuss just how tough it is to keep these kinds of quality drivers.
| May 7, 2022
By Dryden Quigley
President Joe Biden just signed 7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger’s cybercrime bill into law. The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act ensures federal and state government have the resources they need to combat cyber attacks. This comes one year after a cyber attack shut down the colonial pipeline.
| May 5, 2022
By Michael Martz
Two Virginia representatives in Congress stand at the opposite ends of a new ranking of political bipartisanship among members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, was ranked the fifth most bipartisan member of the House and Rep. Bob Good, R-5th, the fifth least bipartisan in a new index based on the record of representatives and senators in working across party lines on legislation in the 117th Congress.
| May 5, 2022
By NBC29 Newsroom
7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger is one of the top five most bipartisan U.S. House members, according to the latest nonpartisan Bipartisan Index from the Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
| May 6, 2022
By Charlie Mitchell
President Biden has signed into law legislation requiring the FBI and Justice Department to revise processes for compiling data on cyber crimes with an eye toward giving policymakers a more complete view of criminal threats and activities in cyberspace.
| May 5, 2022
By Edward Segal
President Joe Biden today signed the Better Cybercrime Metrics Act into law. The measure, which received bipartisan Congressional support, represents the latest step by the federal government to help beef up various aspects of the country’s cyber defenses. The new law establishes requirements to improve the collection of data related to cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime.
| April 30, 2022
By Kevin Freking
When Rep. Abigail Spanberger first introduced a bill banning stock trading by members of Congress and their families, the Virginia Democrat managed to get only eight co-sponsors. So far this session, 62—or about one out of every seven House members—have signed on.
| May 2, 2022
By Eric Westervelt
Open drug use and the threat of mass violence have prompted calls for more security funding for mass transit. Congress also says better oversight of existing security is needed.
| April 28, 2022
By Roberta Oster
Virginia U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-7th) has been working on legislation to support Holocaust education. She co-sponsored the “Never Again Education Act” that passed in 2020 and provides $10 million in funding to the Holocaust Memorial Museum to ensure better access to Holocaust education resources for schools around the country.
| April 28, 2022
By Kyle Morris, Tyler Olson, Andrew Murray
Moderate Democrats are continuing to warn against the Biden administration's decision to end Title 42 next month, speaking out about the consequential move and the ramifications at America's southern border should there not be a well-crafted plan in place when the policy is lifted.
| April 27, 2022
By Marisa Schultz , Caroline McKee
A pair of Democrats with national defense backgrounds says Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas needs to explain his plan for dealing with the fallout of rescinding Title 42 when he faces Congress this week.
| April 27, 2022
By Isabel Cleary
More than $165 million is coming to Virginia from the infrastructure bill to help reduce congestion and improve commute times. 7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger says these investments are part of a long term plan to keep the commonwealth’s economy growing.
| April 26, 2022
By Chris Gentilviso
The “Keeping School Meals Flexible Act” (introduced by Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th) and the “Support Kids Not Red Tape Act of 2022” (cosponsored by Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine) would maintain USDA waivers through the 2022-23 school year. The Senate bill would add the summer of 2023.
| April 26, 2022
By Adele Uphaus
Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D–7th District, introduced a bill that she is co-sponsoring with one Democrat and two Republican representatives. The Keeping School Meals Flexible Act would extend the USDA’s authority to renew the child nutrition waivers through June 30, 2023.
| April 21, 2022
By Marisa Schultz
Two frontline Democrats have teamed up to warn the Biden administration of a looming immigration crisis if border agents no longer have a Trump-era tool to expel migrants from the country.
| April 21, 2022
By News Staff
A local member of the U.S. House of Representatives has asked the Biden administration to delay lifting a controversial order that affects migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
| April 20, 2022
By 7News Staff
Rep. Abigail Spanberger Wednesday honored Korean War veteran Marcus Tuck by presenting him with the medals he earned for his service overseas nearly 70 years ago.
| April 21, 2022
By WRIC Staff
A veteran Korean War combat infantryman finally received his medals Wednesday in a highly emotional ceremony. Former Staff Sergeant Mark Tuck of Crewe, Va. served as a combat infantryman with E Company, 223rd Regiment, 40th Division of the U.S. Army from July 1952 until July 1953.
| April 20, 2022
By Nicholas Wu, Sarah Ferris
Abigail Spanberger railed against members of her own party for playing into the GOP’s hands on “defund the police” after the 2020 election. This year, she’s not waiting for permission to do it her way.
| April 19, 2022
By Isabel Cleary
People living in rural parts of Virginia too often can’t get broadband internet. 7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger says she is working to get this fixed, along with the White House.
| April 17, 2022
By Clint Schemmer
With Congress on its spring-break recess, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger swung through Culpeper on Thursday to meet with town police and visit a small business helped by the federal government’s COVID-19 relief efforts.
| April 15, 2022
By Maria Basileo
After introducing a bipartisan bill aiding local law enforcement earlier this year, U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger Thursday spent time meeting with Culpeper Town Police, listening to some of the challenges and triumphs officers face.
| April 13, 2022
By News Staff
Hundreds of members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7th) and Bob Good (R-VA-5th), have been sanctioned by the Russian government.
| April 14, 2022
By The Central Virginian Staff
The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass the Relief for Restaurants and other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act — which U.S. Representative Spanberger cosponsored — to provide grants to local restaurants, venues, and other businesses that are still struggling to recover from the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
| April 11, 2022
By Katherine Huggins
Members of Congress may soon be barred from trading stocks while in office as bipartisan support for a stock trading ban continues to grow.
| April 7, 2022
By Basil John
Some Democrats are calling on leadership to help pass legislation prohibiting members of Congress from trading stocks. “It is for the public trust and not our portfolios,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) said. Spanberger believes it’s time to prevent members of Congress from trading stocks.
| April 7, 2022
By Michael Martz
Virginia’s congressional delegation, led by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, is pushing to make the state a national hub of semiconductor research under legislation that would deliver $52 billion to boost production of vital computer chips.
| April 7, 2022
By Shirin Rajaee
Virginia lawmakers are diving deeper into the recently released report on what went wrong during January's snowstorm response, which caused a gridlock on I-95. FOX 5's Shirin Rajaee chats w/ Rep. Abigail Spanberger about the matter.
| April 6, 2022
By Sarah Robinson
It's estimated that the nation is short about 80,000 truck drivers, which contributes to empty shelves at grocery stores and retail locations. To entice and retain drivers, one of the new bills is on the table. Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7th) introduced the Strengthening Supply Chains Through Truck Driver Incentives Act.
| April 4, 2022
By Luke Lukert
A report released Friday details Virginia’s response to a snowstorm that left thousands of drivers stranded along I-95 in freezing temperatures, and one of the most vocal critics of the response wants the state to be better prepared in the future.
| April 5, 2022
By Dryden Quigley
7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger is introducing a new bill to help fix the shortage of truck drivers in Virginia. Spanberger’s bill would give new truck drivers a tax credit and experienced drivers a financial incentive to continue.
| April 10, 2022
By Luke Lukert
You have heard it often: blaming supply chain issues for those empty grocery shelves and delayed birthday gift shipments. But a new bipartisan bill in the House is looking to cut down on one supply chain issue.
| April 5, 2022
By Citizen Staff
In a new effort to combat rising rates of substance use disorder and addiction, U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (VA-7th District) introduced a new bipartisan bill with support from both Virginia-based and national organizations, including the Henrico-based McShin Foundation.
| April 1, 2022
By Mitchell Miller
Virginia, Maryland and D.C. are ramping up to prepare transportation projects linked to funding from the massive infrastructure bill passed last year by Congress.
| April 4, 2022
By FleetOwner Staff
U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Mike Gallagher (R-WI) have introduced legislation to help address the current truck driver shortage by establishing a refundable income tax credit for qualified commercial truck drivers.
| April 2, 2022
By Clint Schemmer
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill capping the out-of-pocket cost of insulin at $35 per month for insured patients. A bill backed by 7th District Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the proposal has cleared the House and awaits action by the U.S. Senate.
| April 1, 2022
By Allison Brophy Champion
Culpeper leaders stood with the local congresswoman this week at the U.S. Capitol in introducing legislation that would provide $900 million for a long-term community response to an alarming rise in fentanyl and other opiate deaths. Police Chief Chris Jenkins and Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Director Jim LaGraffe thanked Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, for her attention to the national issue as co-sponsor of the Summer Barrow Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Act.
| March 31, 2022
By Staff Reports
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger on Thursday honored Phil Jenkins, former executive editor of The Free Lance–Star, on the House floor to recognize his nearly 24 years of work as a journalist in the Fredericksburg region.
| April 1, 2022
By Citizen Staff
U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger’s Better Cybercrime’s Metrics Act recently received overwhelming bipartisan support from the U.S. House of Representatives. The bicameral bill, which was passed by a 378 to 48 vote, was created to improve the federal government’s understanding of cybercrimes while also improving how the government measures, tracks, and prosecutes such crimes.
| March 31, 2022
By Isaac Parrish
President Joe Biden recently signed into law U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s legislation to provide $122,590 for improvements to Booster Park – one of 10 projects totaling $6.3 million Rep. Spanberger helped secure across the 7th Congressional District.
| March 30, 2022
By Ines Kagubare
The House passed bipartisan cybersecurity legislation on Tuesday that would improve the way the federal government tracks, measures and analyzes cyber crime.
| March 28, 2022
By Police1 Staff
Retired police officers and firefighters could see more tax relief in their future. A bipartisan bill introduced to Congress this week would make it easier for public safety retirees to access a tax benefit for their healthcare insurance premiums, according to a press release Monday from Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA).
| March 28, 2022
By Aruna Viswanatha, Eliza Collins
President Biden’s budget proposes billions of dollars to combat violent crime, setting a pre-midterm-election marker for moderate Democrats against calls from progressives to reduce funding to police forces.
| March 28, 2022
By David Holtzman
Small farmers who sell meat to customers in Louisa are hoping area meat processing capacity will ramp up in the coming years.
| March 25, 2022
By Chris Gentilviso
Through years of collaborative work among local health departments, law enforcement, health care providers and key civic organizations — and a big assist from Congress — Henrico is charting a better path forward. A new 24/7 Detox and Recovery Center will change lives, diverting people away from jail and toward preventive treatment that fosters recovery.
| March 24, 2022
By Patrick Larsen
Rep. Abigail Spanberger met with Henrico County officials on Thursday to celebrate $1 million in federal funding to help the county construct a 24-hour detox center. The center will also provide preliminary rehabilitation care and connect patients with further services.
| March 25, 2022
By Tyler Thrasher
Henrico County officials joined U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (D – Henrico) and leaders from community organizations to celebrate the efforts in securing $1 million in federal funding to support the construction of the county’s planned detox and treatment center.
| March 24, 2022
By The Amelia Bulletin Monitor Staff
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger visited Amelia Monday (March 21) with a “big check” representing the $375,000 she successfully secured for the renovation of the former Wells Fargo bank building for use as the new circuit court clerk’s office. The funds are part of a federal appropriations package signed into law on the week of March 14 which also included $923,937 for an aerial ladder truck for the Blackstone Volunteer Fire Department.
| March 23, 2022
By Madison McNamee
7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger made a stop in Orange County Tuesday, March 22, to check out a park that’s getting a makeover.
| March 22, 2022
By Clint Schemmer
This month, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger secured more than $6.4 million in federal appropriations for 10 projects requested by Central Virginia communities.
| March 23, 2022
By Allison Brophy Champion
Community members came together Tuesday morning to celebrate continued investment in a Culpeper County school site with a visit from U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger.
| March 23, 2022
By CBS19 News Staff
U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7th) was in Orange County on Tuesday to celebrate funding that will go toward renovating a local park. Spanberger secured $122,590 to renovate Booster Park. She worked directly with Orange County officials to get this funding request signed into law.
| March 19, 2022
By Peter Cihelka
Beginning in March 2020, when COVID arrived on our shores, federal, state, and local governments, along with a vast array of nonprofit organizations and citizens of good will, coordinated to tackle hunger in a constructive and effective manner.
| March 17, 2022
By Karina Bolster
A bill signed into law on Tuesday by President Joe Biden will provide $1 million to Henrico County to help build a brand-new detox and recovery center.
| March 17, 2022
By Scott Schenk
A Spotsylvania County water treatment plant expansion project has officially garnered federal funding, something that will help move the project forward. U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger helped secure the $1.84 million for the expansion of the Motts Run water treatment plant, her office announced Tuesday, after President Joe Biden signed the 7th Congressional District lawmaker’s legislation.
| March 14, 2022
By Anna Gawel
A bipartisan group of 100 members of Congress is pushing the IRS to address numerous concerns, including a massive backlog, ahead of the April 18 filing deadline for taxpayers.
| March 14, 2022
By News Staff
Members of both chambers of Congress are calling on the Internal Revenue Service to provide relief regarding processing issues. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner as well as Representatives Abigail Spanberger and Gerald Connolly are among 100 lawmakers urging the IRS to address its struggles with customer service and processing backlogs.
| March 8, 2022
By Madison McNamee
Mail problems keep popping up in the Charlottesville-area and beyond. 7th District Representative Abigail Spanberger believes the Postal Service Reform Act - HR3076 - could solve some things that are slowing down your mail.
| February 28, 2022
By Culpeper Star-Exponent Staff
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, R-7th, is urging President Biden to tap into the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ease pain at the pump in the wake of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
| February 28, 2022
By Special to the Citizen
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s TRUST in Congress Act, which prevents members of Congress and their family from trading stock, is building momentum in Congress with strong bipartisan support and an evolving co-sponsor list.
| February 18, 2022
By The Editorial Board
Americans are in a sour mood with their elected officials. Blame the pandemic or inflation or Trumpism or stress or structural problems like inequality, but people do not feel that the system, much less its leaders, are working for them. The nation is experiencing a crisis of confidence that is eating away at its strength and unity.
| February 18, 2022
By Karl Evers-Hillstrom
Any bill to prevent lawmakers from trading stocks must apply to their immediate family members, Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas), the authors of a stock trading ban proposal, said Friday.
| February 19, 2022
By Dryden Quigley
With this year’s tax season coming up, some Virginians are still waiting for their tax returns or 2020 refunds. Representative Abigail Spanberger sent a letter to the IRS asking to speed up the process.
| February 17, 2022
By Mychael Schnell
Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to address a backlog of tax returns and improve customer service as the U.S. makes its way through filing season.
| February 16, 2022
By Walter M. Shaub Jr., Liz Hempowicz
Americans can hardly agree on anything anymore, but people across the political spectrum have had it with Capitol Hill’s stock trading scandals. Last month, a Fox News poll found that 70 percent of registered voters were in favor of a ban on current members of Congress and their immediate family and staff trading stocks. The public is fed up.
| February 15, 2022
By Police1 Staff
On Tuesday, U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger and Rodney Davis asked U.S. House leadership for a vote on their bipartisan bill, called the Social Security Fairness Act.
| February 14, 2022
By Tristan Lorei
Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat representing Virginia’s 7th District, was in Culpeper last week with Biden to make a pitch for a piece of the plan that has been a long time coming: the part making prescription drugs more affordable.
| February 10, 2022
By Meagan Flynn
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) appeared with President Biden in her district Thursday to speak with him about federal action to lower the cost of prescription drugs, part of Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and one of the congresswoman’s foremost priorities as she heads into a heated reelection campaign.
| February 10, 2022
By Michael Martz
President Joe Biden visited a heavily Republican rural stronghold in Virginia on Thursday to join Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, to push Congress to take action on proposals to reduce the price of insulin and other prescription drugs.
| February 9, 2022
By Jonathan Weisman
An effort to strictly control stock ownership by members of Congress is gathering momentum on Capitol Hill for the first time in a decade, fueled by politically vulnerable lawmakers who recognize the potency of signaling to voters that they will act on the perceived corruption in Washington.
| February 9, 2022
By Deirdre Walsh
Top congressional Democrats are signaling Congress could vote soon on legislation to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks. The move comes amid pressure from rank and file members from both parties arguing that voters overwhelmingly back the idea.
| February 7, 2022
By Madison McNamee
Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) wants to extend the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s child nutrition waiver authority into 2023. Currently, all waivers expire at the end of this June.
| February 7, 2022
By Ali Vitali, Julie Tsirkin, Haley Talbot
Representatives Abigail Spanberger and Chip Roy don’t often find themselves fighting on the same side. Spanberger, a moderate Democrat from Virginia, and Roy, a conservative Republican from Texas, support a bill that would ban legislators from trading stocks in public companies to keep them from profiting from the insider knowledge they're privy to on Capitol Hill.
| February 5, 2022
By Julie Gallagher
Virginia Gov. Glen Younkin is working with an outside firm to investigate the traffic jam that trapped drivers on Interstate 95 for roughly an entire day during last month’s intense snowstorm.
| February 6, 2022
By Dryden Quigley
Virginia Representative Abigail Spanberger wrote a letter to U.S. postmaster general Louis Dejoy. She has concerns about how the USPS plans to distribute the free government’s COVID-19 testing kits in a timely fashion.
| February 3, 2022
By Mike Murillo
It’s been a month since snowfall led to one of the worst traffic jam the D.C. region has ever seen, with people stuck in their cars on Interstate 95, in the cold, for hours. A month later, Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger is pushing for more information about what the state has learned about where its response before and after the storm went wrong.
| February 4, 2022
By Andrea Swalec
A member of Congress from Virginia is pushing state officials for answers on why drivers became stranded for more than 24 hours on a stretch of Interstate 95 during a snowstorm last month.
| February 2, 2022
By Jonathan Weisman
Facing stiff political headwinds and a flagging election-year agenda, the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress have found a way to distance themselves from their leaders: demanding an end to stock trading for all members of Congress, including senior lawmakers who are clearly leery.
| January 29, 2022
By Allison Brophy Champion
Culpeper-area Community Services administrators, hosting U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger on Thursday, showcased a new local clinic that aids people needing immediate help with substance-use disorder and mental-health needs.
| January 25, 2022
By Clint Schemmer
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger is leading a campaign by six House members to fight prescription-drug hikes that hurt health-care providers and tens of millions of their patients, especially in rural communities.
| January 24, 2022
By Katherine Huggins
Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Tom Rice are trying to make it easier for rural residents to charge electric vehicles and farm equipment.
| January 21, 2022
By News Staff
Thousands of Virginians say lawmakers should not be making decisions regarding the buying, trading or selling of stocks while they serve in Congress. Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger launched an online survey one week ago to hear from constituents on this topic.
| January 19, 2022
By Jennifer Rubin
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) knows how to win in a district that can tilt Republican. She won her 7th Congressional District in 2018, even though it had gone for Donald Trump for president in 2016. In 2020, voters in what will be her newly drawn district for the midterms went for Joe Biden by 6½ points; in 2021, they chose Republican Glenn Youngkin for governor by 5½.
| January 17, 2022
By Meagan Flynn
More than a year since Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) first put forth legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading stock, a flurry of action in the Senate in recent days has injected some momentum into the proposal. While it’s traditionally tough to get Congress to police itself, Spanberger and her co-lead on the legislation, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) — an odd couple, no doubt — have built a bipartisan coalition around the issue spanning the ideological spectrum after several stock-trading controversies during the pandemic raised eyebrows.
| January 13, 2022
By News Staff
Representative Abigail Spanberger helped lead a bipartisan effort to make investments in local police departments in Virginia and across the country. The Invest in Law Enforcement Act would ensure police officers in smaller communities and rural areas have resources, recruiting tools and training.
| January 3, 2022
By Audie Cornish, Noah Caldwell, Courtney Dorning
Representatives Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Jason Crow, D-Colo., reflect on the ways their military and intelligence training aided them during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.