By Joselyn King, The Intelligencer
WHEELING – New U.S. Rep. Riley Moore got himself appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, and now he is backing the trade tariffs enacted by President Donald Trump as a means to right the economy.
“I will say it was harder for me to get on the House Appropriations Committee than to win my general election,” Moore told those gathered for a business leaders lunch Thursday morning at Oglebay Park’s Wilson Lodge. “And it’s for a reason.
“Everybody wants on there. I’m the only freshman Republican or Democrat in the entire Congress who is on the Appropriations Committee.”
He added that’s a good thing because his aunt, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore-Capito, R-West Virginia, is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The two can team up to work for funding for projects in the state, he added.
