West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito explains why real infrastructure is important

Published May 10, 2021 12:00am ET



LANSING, West Virginia — Shelley Moore Capito, the first woman U.S. senator from West Virginia and the daughter of the late Gov. Arch Moore, said she remains confident President Joe Biden is taking seriously the infrastructure outline she and several other Republicans submitted to the White House.

“I came up with a Republican plan, working with the other ranking members on committees to formulate a Republican response, ” Capito said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. She was referring to her work with fellow Republican Sens. Roger Wicker, Pat Toomey, Mike Crapo, and John Barrasso of Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Wyoming, respectively. They are the ranking members, respectively, on the committees for transportation, banking, finance, and energy.

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