WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on July 13, 2021, after the Senate voted to confirm Julie Su as the deputy secretary of Labor: * * * "The global pandemic and forced shutdowns have upended businesses, workers, and jobs. "It is more important than ever for the Department of Labor leadership to promote freedom and opportunity not coercion and red tape, while effecti more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on July 13, 2021: The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), sent a letter to Chairwoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) urging her to require Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to testify at next week's hearing alongside Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge. Committee Republican more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. David Price, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 13, 2021: Congressman David Price (NC-04), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that his Community Project Funding request for RTP-BIO, an investment in a biotechnology career development collaboration across Durham and Wake Counties, has advanced in the House as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill. The bill more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. David Price, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 13, 2021: Congressman David Price (NC-04), Chairman of the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee (T-HUD), announced that four of his Community Project Funding requests have advanced in the House as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 T-HUD Appropriations Bill. The bill was passed in Subcommittee yesterday with the four projects included. Th more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. David Price, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 12, 2021: The Fiscal Year 2022 (FY 22) Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies funding bill passed through subcommittee. The legislation funds agencies and programs in the Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as well as several related agencies. For FY 22, the bill provides funding of $84.1 billion, an increase of $8.7 bill more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following opening statement on July 13, 2021, at a hearing for the nominees for the Education Department: * * * The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held its nomination hearing for Catherine Lhamon to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, Elizabeth Brown to be General Council of the De more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on July 13, 2021, after voting against advancing from the committee the nomination of Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as the National Labor Relations Board general counsel: * * * "At the same time President Biden was promising unity in his January inaugural address, his staff was engaged in the unprecedented, partisan firing of NLRB  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the statement on July 13, 2021, after the Senate voted 50-47 to confirm Julie Su as deputy secretary of Labor: * * * "Under Ms. Su's leadership, California suffered one of the largest cases of unemployment insurance fraud in our nation's history. After failing to implement recommended reforms upon taking office, Ms. Su instead eliminated important saf more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following joint statement with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware: * * * U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), co-chairs of the Senate Human Rights Caucus, released a joint statement expressing support for the pro-democracy demonstrations in Cuba: "As co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Human Rights Caucus, we express solidarity with the peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Cuba. "Decades of authoritarianism more PR