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Nov 3, 2020 · Shelley Moore Capito ( Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from West Virginia. She assumed office on January 3, 2015. Her current term ends on January 3, 2027. Capito ( Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent West Virginia. She won in the general election on November 3, 2020.
May 1, 2024 · WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tonight, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, voted in support of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2024. This legislation, which passed the Senate 88-4, now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Nov 4, 2020 · CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Shelley Moore Capito has become the first West Virginia Republican to be reelected to the U.S. Senate in more than a century. Capito on Tuesday defeated progressive Democrat Paula Jean Swearengin, a coal miner’s daughter who lacked statewide political experience.
After representing West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House for 14 years (2001 to 2015), Shelley Moore Capito became the first female elected to represent West Virginia in the U.S. Senate in 2014. In her historic victory, she won all 55 counties and received over 62% of the vote.
Shelley became the first female Senator in West Virginia’s history and in 2020, was reelected with the largest margin of victory for a Republican in state history— winning more than 70 percent of the vote and all 55 counties, surpassing the previous mark she set in 2014 when she won more than 62 percent of the vote and all 55 counties.
May 12, 2021 · May 12, 2021. CHARLESTON, W.V. — Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, was juggling visits across her state and preparations to tee up a potential infrastructure deal when...
4 days ago · Shelley Moore Capito is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2014 and began representing West Virginia the following year. She was the first woman from the state to be elected senator. Capito previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (2001–15).
