West Virginia — U.S. Senate

Rachel Fetty Anderson

Supports higher taxes on wealthy

Fetty Anderson advocates for equitable tax distribution, calling to eliminate loopholes for wealthy borrowers and increase marginal rates on top earners. She emphasizes protecting workers' rights to unionize and fair pay while guarding against technology designed to shrink human employment.

• Eliminate the 'Buy, Borrow, Die' tax loophole.
• Increase marginal tax rates on earners making over $500,000 annually.
• Protect worker rights to unionize and ensure human labor remains the foundation of the economy.

“I support the elimination of the "Buy, Borrow, Die" tax loop-hole, the increase of the marginal tax rate of earners of over $500,000.00 per year and other changes to the tax code that permit those who work and worked to sustain their dignity on their savings and earnings when retired, facing hardship or facing inflation that minimizes the value of their resources.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Supports tax cuts and deregulation

Capito champions tax relief and conservative economic growth, highlighting her support for federal tax cuts and major reconciliation legislation. She also backed targeted tax relief, such as eliminating federal taxes on tips.

• Supported President Trump's federal tax cuts.
• Voted for H.R.1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) reconciliation bill.
• Supported S.129 (No Tax on Tips Act) creating tax deductions for tipped income.

“President Donald Trump endorsed her as "a rock-solid conservative and a fierce advocate for West Virginia" because of her support for his tax cuts and votes to confirm all three of his U.S. Supreme Court nominees that delivered a conservative majority.”

Rachel Fetty Anderson

Supports sustainable energy and polluter accountability

Fetty Anderson supports government investment in clean, renewable energy sources while insisting on ethical, clean management of coal plants where polluters bear full environmental costs. She targets cleanup funds for West Virginia's water crisis, demands polluter reparations, and calls for a moratorium on hyperscale data center development.

• Encourage investment in clean energy sources like solar, wind, and water power.
• Require clean coal plant management with real environmental costs accruing to operating companies.
• Target cleanup funds on community water projects and enact a moratorium on hyperscale data centers.

“The government must encourage investment in sustainable energy sources that minimally affect the environment and utilize free natural resources such as solar, wind and water power.”

“We will target WV cleanup funds on ready-to-go projects created by our communities. We will hold polluters accountable for harm and damages they have created.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Supports traditional energy and deregulation

Capito serves as Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and founded the Congressional Coal Caucus to defend West Virginia coal and energy production. She focuses on rolling back federal environmental regulations, including opposing electric vehicle mandates.

• Founded the Congressional Coal Caucus following state mining disasters.
• Serves as Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
• Fights federal environmental regulations, including ending electric vehicle mandates.

“As Chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, she helps set policy on public infrastructure projects and roll back regulatory overreach such as ending California’s electric vehicle mandate.”

Rachel Fetty Anderson

Supports expanded healthcare and reproductive autonomy

Fetty Anderson advocates expanding Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare to provide universal healthcare centered on medical necessity rather than corporate profit. She supports full reproductive freedom, autonomous bodily decision-making, access to birth control, and maintaining strong mandatory childhood vaccination policies.

• Invest in Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare to deliver care based on medical necessity.
• Divest federal healthcare support from non-provider corporations.
• Guarantee autonomous bodily decision-making, access to birth control, and strong childhood vaccination policies.

“We will invest in Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare to ensure that ALL Americans benefit from taxpayer investment and that these systems prioritize human health, safety and survival and elimination of 3rd party non-providers.”

“All adult humans have the same human rights regardless of the nature of their reproductive capacity including the right to appropriate educational services, autonomous decision making over their bodies, to choose or refuse medical care, including birth control, to choose their providers and to exercise their rights to privacy.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Opposes federal IVF and healthcare expansions

Capito has consistently voted against federal expansions of healthcare funding and statutory codifications of reproductive healthcare. In the Senate, she voted against codifying nationwide access to IVF and against continuing appropriations that extended Medicaid expansions.

• Voted Nay on S.4445 (Right to IVF Act) codifying access to in vitro fertilization.
• Voted Nay on S.2882 extending Medicaid programs and expanded health insurance premium tax credits.
• Supported confirmation of conservative Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.

“President Donald Trump endorsed her as "a rock-solid conservative and a fierce advocate for West Virginia" because of her support for his tax cuts and votes to confirm all three of his U.S. Supreme Court nominees that delivered a conservative majority.”

Rachel Fetty Anderson

Supports constitutional human rights protections

Fetty Anderson emphasizes that all individuals within the United States—citizens, residents, or guests—are entitled to constitutional due process and humane government treatment, though she does not outline a specific border enforcement platform.

• Guarantee government actors treat citizens, residents, and guests humanely with full constitutional due process protections.

“As an American citizen, resident or guest, your humanity is sufficient to guarantee that the government and its actors will treat you humanely and we will afford you access to the processes, protections, resources and rights granted to you by the law.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Supports strict border enforcement

Capito campaigns on strict border security measures, earning endorsement from Donald Trump for her stance. She supported the Laken Riley Act requiring mandatory detention of illegal immigrants arrested for theft crimes and opposed dismissing impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

• Voted Yea on S.5 (Laken Riley Act) requiring detention of illegal immigrants arrested for theft crimes.
• Voted Nay on motions to dismiss impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
• Voted Nay on cloture for S.4361 (Border Act of 2024).

“The Laken Riley Act (S.5) was a bill passed by the 119th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump (R) on 1/29/2025, which required the Department of Homeland Security to detain certain individuals residing in the United States without legal permission who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting”

Rachel Fetty Anderson

Supports public infrastructure and privacy

Fetty Anderson advocates for equitable infrastructure investment in West Virginia roads, bridges, and high-speed internet. She opposes turning public infrastructure over to private contractors or foreign entities that compromise citizen privacy or extract speculative profits.

• Promote equitable infrastructure investments across West Virginia.
• Expand public high-speed internet without surrendering privacy or control to private corporations.
• Block contracts with international corporations that present conflicts of interest or foreign ties.

“In the country where the internet was developed, Americans everywhere deserve the best internet resources. The American people paid for the research and development of these systems and they deserve to trust that the government has not sold, lost or compromised their privacy, safety and integrity.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Supports federal infrastructure funding and broadband

Capito leverages her leadership on the Senate EPW, Appropriations, and Commerce committees to secure federal funding for West Virginia highway, bridge, and statewide broadband projects. She also voted for major transportation reauthorizations.

• Secured federal funding for West Virginia highways, bridges, and broadband expansion.
• Leads public infrastructure policy as Chair of the Senate EPW Committee.
• Voted Yea on H.R.3935 (FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024).

“In the 119th Congress, Capito serves as a member of the Senate’s Appropriations, Commerce, and Environment and Public Works committees to help West Virginia overcome the opioid crisis and expand broadband access.”

Rachel Fetty Anderson

Supports defense-only military and diplomacy

Fetty Anderson believes U.S. military power must be restricted strictly to constitutional self-defense approved by Congress. She supports a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, opposes foreign weapon sales except for self-defense, and opposes diverting defense funds to mercenary corporate forces.

• Restrict military operations to constitutional self-defense requiring explicit congressional authorization.
• Support a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine while opposing non-defense foreign weapon sales.
• Prioritize human veteran care and end the diversion of defense spending to corporate mercenary forces.

“US military power should be reserved for self-defense. The Constitution states it is the job of Congress to declare war, not the President. No troops should ever be placed in harm's way without the approval of Congress.”

“I support a two-state solution. Both Israel and Palestine deserve to exist. I would not vote to send or sell weapons to any country except for purely self-defense.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Supports strong defense spending and foreign aid

Capito supports strong national defense authorization and foreign security assistance. In the Senate, she consistently voted for annual National Defense Authorization Acts and approved supplemental foreign military aid for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

• Voted Yea on S.2296 (NDAA FY2026) and H.R.2670 (NDAA FY2024).
• Voted Yea on H.R.815 providing emergency supplemental foreign security aid to Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

“The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (S.2296) was a bill approved by the Senate on 10/9/2025, which set forth policies for the Department of Defense programs and activities”

Rachel Fetty Anderson

Supports campaign finance restrictions and transparency

Fetty Anderson rejects campaign donations from foreign governments, foreign PACs, and corporations, calling to overturn Citizens United. She advocates for incorruptible government, defending free speech, protecting journalists, and blocking corporate donor influence over elected officials.

• Refuse campaign contributions from foreign governments, foreign PACs, and corporations.
• Oppose Citizens United and reduce corporate money in elections.
• Protect First Amendment rights, free press, and journalists from government coercion.

“Candidates should not be allowed to take money from foreign governments or corporations. Foreign governments rightly serve a foreign interest, not US interest. Corporations rightly serve a company's interest.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Supports congressional oversight and transparency

Capito supports legislative transparency and congressional oversight over executive rulemaking. She voted by unanimous consent for the Epstein Files Transparency Act and backed Congressional Review Act resolutions checking federal agency regulations.

• Supported unanimous consent passage of H.R.4405 (Epstein Files Transparency Act).
• Voted for Congressional Review Act resolutions (H.J.Res.30, H.J.Res.44) nullifying executive rules.

“The Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405) was a bill passed by the 119th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump (R) on 11/19/2025, which required the Department of Justice to publish all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution in a searchable format.”

Shelley Moore Capito

Supports Second Amendment rights

Capito is a strong defender of gun rights, earning endorsements from Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association, and the West Virginia Citizens Defense League. In the Senate, she voted to overturn ATF restrictions on firearm stabilizing braces.

• Voted Yea on H.J.Res.44 to nullify ATF restrictions on firearm stabilizing braces.
• Endorsed by Donald Trump as a champion for the Second Amendment.
• Endorsed by the National Rifle Association and West Virginia Citizens Defense League.

“As Chair, Capito works closely with President Trump to pass his agenda for which he endorsed her again for re-election – calling her a “tireless” champion for tax cuts, border security, and the Second Amendment.”