Shelley Moore Capito

U.S. Senator, WV

WV Senate · Republican

Shelley Wellons Moore Capito ( KAP-ih-toh; born November 26, 1953) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from West Virginia. A member of the Republican Party, Capito served from 2001 to 2015 as the U.S. representative from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. She is the daughter of three-term West Virginia governor and six-term U.S. representative Arch Alfred Moore Jr. Capito was first elected to the Senate in 2014, becoming the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from West Virginia and the first West Virginia Republican to win a full term in the Senate since 1942. She was reelected in 2020. Capito has chaired the Environment and Public Works Committee since 2025, and is the dean of West Virginia's congressional delegation.

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Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 80
Ballots cast: 79
Participation: 98.8%
Yea / Nay: 27 / 52

Yea27

Nay52

Absent1

Abstain0

80 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

52 votes recorded as “Nay”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
FEHB Protection Act of 2025	house	4111	Nay
FEHB Protection Act of 2025	house	3992	Nay

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.