Candidate · U.S. Senate
Shelley Moore Capito
What this job does: One of West Virginia's two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and approve or reject the president's picks for federal judges, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet. A term is six years.
- Current office
- U.S. Senator from West Virginia
- Lives in
- Charleston
Background
- Born in Glen Dale, West Virginia, in 1953; lives in Charleston. source: capito.senate.gov
- Earned a B.S. from Duke University and an M.Ed. from the University of Virginia. source: capito.senate.gov
- Worked as a college counselor at West Virginia State College and as director of the Educational Information Center for the West Virginia Board of Regents. source: capito.senate.gov
- Represented Kanawha County in the West Virginia House of Delegates. source: capito.senate.gov
- Elected to the U.S. House in 2000 and served seven terms for West Virginia's 2nd District; elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014 and re-elected in 2020. source: capito.senate.gov
- Serves on the Senate Appropriations; Environment and Public Works; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and Rules and Administration committees, and chairs the Senate Republican Policy Committee. source: capito.senate.gov
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