WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on Dec. 21, 2021, on President Biden's COVID-19 remarks: * * * "The Biden administration's focus on wrong-headed policy, like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) authoritarian vaccination-and-testing diktat, has directly contributed to the COVID-19 testing shortage now plaguing the country. "But rather than ad more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news on Dec. 21, 2021: Many institutions of higher education are not taking the threat of China seriously. A recent report by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies (FDD) makes clear that Confucius Institutes (CIs) are not the only way the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) is trying to gain a foothold in the United States. There are multiple othe more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2021: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) led a letter with 22 House colleagues urging Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Mayorkas and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Jaddou to reduce processing delays for spousal work authorizations. As a result of this backlog, tens of thousands of immigrant spouses across the country - many of them highly educated w more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 17 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) announced that Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) will receive $ 14,698,288 in new federal funding under the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This funding can be used to improve runways and taxiways, for terminal development, and for noise prevention programs. "The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is delivering the investments our more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2021: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) sent a follow-up letter to the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) Marty Walsh to reiterate numerous concerns about DOL operations, including how the majority of DOL em more PR