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Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) re-introduced legislation yesterday to stop technologies that are developed with the support of U.S. taxpayers from being given away to China or other countries.

U.S. Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Mark R. Warner (D-VA) today again urged the Obama Administration, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, to include areas off the coast of Virginia in the Department's upcoming leasing plan. The letter also called on the Department to revise the map of the mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to more accurately reflect Virginia’s energy resources.

Today, Congressmen Jim Moran and Gerry Connolly and Senators Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner announced nearly $116 million in Department of Transportation funding for construction of Phase I of the Dulles Metrorail project.

Today, Congressmen Jim Moran, Gerry Connolly and Senators Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner applauded House passage of language both to cap the number of parking spaces at the Mark Center and require that the Army implement the IG’s most recent recommendations.

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) yesterday joined a bipartisan group of Senators to introduce the LIHEAP Protection Act, which would restore funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

Friday, the Senate unanimously passed the Civilian Service Recognition Act of 2011 (H.R. 2061), cosponsored by Senator Jim Webb, which honors federal civilian employees who are killed while performing official duties.

Congressman Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat, today applauded the appointment of Alexandria resident Sherri Brown to the Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Women Veterans.

Following yesterday’s release of a Department of Defense Inspector General report revealing serious flaws in the Army’s Transportation Management Plan, Representative Jim Moran, Senator Mark R. Warner, Senator Jim Webb and Representative Gerry Connolly renewed their call to limit the number of parking spaces used at the building until sufficient transportation infrastructure is put in place and pressed for enactment of the IG’s recommendations -- including requiring the Army to redo their TMP.

Congressman Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat, today renewed his call for passage of the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act following the announcement that Feld Entertainment agreed to pay $270,000 in fines for alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

U.S. Senators Jim Webb (D-Va.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today announced approval of $150 million for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.