CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Alma S. Adams, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Nov. 2, 2021: Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) applauded today's move by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to file a Complaint and Motion for Injunctive Relief in Mecklenburg County Superior Court to force Colonial Pipeline to meet their obligations as the responsible party in the state's largest gasoline spill. "I applaud Governor Cooper and the Department more PR

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Alma S. Adams, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Nov. 1, 2021: Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) applauded the inclusion of Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte's only Historically Black College or University (HBCU), in Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles' $250 million Racial Equity Initiative. "For over 150 years, Johnson C. Smith University has been an engine of equity for the Charlotte region," said Congresswoman Alma Adams, founder and c more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) joined the both North Carolina U.S. Senators and 7 fellow North Carolina members of Congress to send a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Steve Dickson regarding, "Raleigh-Durham International's (RDU) ongoing efforts to undertake improvements to the airfield, terminals, ground transportation, and genera more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Nov. 2, 2021: On Monday, Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03), Ranking Member of the Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee hosted the first ever Campus Free Speech Roundtable in the U.S. Capitol. The purpose of the event was to highlight the importance of intellectual diversity in higher education and to provide lawmakers, outspoken alumni, and stakeholders with an opportunity to share t more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Recently, Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) sent a letter to the Secretary of the Defense, Lloyd J. Austin in response to the Department of Defense's (DOD) decision to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. servicemembers. In the letter, Rep. Murphy addresses the clear operational readiness and national security concerns that would be present should the DOD relieve servicemembers of duty due to COVID vac more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Nov. 2, 2021: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) released the following statement after the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) announced a $1.9 million-dollar grant to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety to combat the opioid epidemic: "Nearly every person in North Carolina has been touched in some way byopioid addiction," said Congresswoma more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting the evidence Attorney General Merrick Garland used to draft the School Board memo from the National School Board Association's (NSBA) letter. Earlier this week, Senator Tillis questioned the Attorney General on the misguided memo and argued that it will hav more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Boozman (R-AR), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced legislation to implement a temporary stay on the H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) to combat rising food prices across the nation. The Keep Food Local & Affordable Act of 2021 would keep required wage rates at 2021 rates in states already experiencing low availability of domestic workers, a more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: This week, U.S Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, and all the Republican members of the committee sought answers from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough on the vaccine mandate and how the mandate will impact the VA's ability to provide services to veterans if it terminates employees who choose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and the Senate Judiciary Committee's Republican senators wrote to President Joe Biden to oppose his administration's reported plan to offer illegal immigrants up to $450,000 per person in taxpayer dollars to settle lawsuits resulting from those individuals' violating U.S. immigration law. "At a time when respect for our country's immigration laws is at an all- more PR