Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-1), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, made the following statement today after the release of the Department of Defense's proposed budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017:
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, along with Governor Terry McAuliffe, U.S. Representatives Bobby Scott, Randy Forbes, Rob Wittman, Gerry Connolly, Robert Hurt, Dave Brat, Don Beyer and Scott Rigell released the following statement welcoming the groundbreaking of a Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) at Fort Pickett in Blackstone, Virginia.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) voted yesterday in favor of H.R. 3662, the Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act. The measure would enhance Congress's oversight role and prevent the President from removing individuals and entities from a restricted list maintained by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control until the Administration has certified that those individuals and entities are no longer financing terror, abusing human rights, or involved in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
WASHINGTON – The Office of Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) is now accepting submissions for the 2016 Congressional Art Competition. All high school students living in Virginia's First Congressional District are eligible and welcome to participate in the competition, themed "America the Beautiful."
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) today introduced a bill to clarify and protect certain due process rights of federal employees serving in sensitive positions. The bill would overturn a 2013 federal court decision that stripped many federal employees of due process rights to independent review of an agency decision removing them from a job on national security grounds. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision, Kaplan v.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) released the following statement today after Congressman Scott Rigell (VA-2) announced that he would not seek reelection to Congress at the end of this term:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) released the following statement today after President Obama appeared before a joint session of Congress to deliver his final State of the Union address:
WASHINGTON – Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-1) released the following statement today, after voting in favor of the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act:
"Today, I voted to send a bill to President Obama that would repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) released the following statement in response to President Obama's announcement that he will use executive order to restrict American gun ownership:
Washington, DC – With the clock ticking on the federal government's fiscal calendar, Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) and Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) are preparing legislation to protect federal employees from a government shutdown. The Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act would guarantee back pay for all furloughed workers in the event of a shutdown.