WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) sponsored H.R. 6919, the Prohibition on Imports of Russian Oil Act. The bill would prohibit Russian petroleum imports to the United States. The bill was originally introduced by Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK). Rep. Budd said in a statement: "Vladimir Putin is an international thug who is bombing innocent civilians. We need to immediately restrain Russia's ability to project power, and that m more PR

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release: The Biden administration's reinterpretation of Title IX has weakened this landmark legislation and its protection of women. For fifty years this legislation has increased women's access to athletic programs in schools, yet Democrats' dangerous re-interpretation of Title IX is putting women's sports in jeopardy. In Case You Missed more PR

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release: Modern union bosses are more akin to political magnates than workers' rights advocates. This week, Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh traveled to North Carolina to tout their pro-union agenda in the right-to-work state. In Case You Missed It via Carolina Journal, Education and Labor Committee Republican L more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Greg Murphy (NC-03) co-sponsored bipartisan Ways and Means Committee legislation that, if passed, would ban all U.S. energy imports from Russia and suspend normal trade relations with both Russia and Belarus in response to their coordinated and unprovoked attack on the sovereignty of Ukraine. "As President Putin continues his ruthless attack on the Ukrainian people, I am proud to stand with my more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) joined Reps. Chris Pappas (D-NH) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA) to introduce the Save Americans from the Fentanyl Emergency (SAFE) Act. The bill permanently schedules all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs. Background: * Fentanyl overdose was the main cause of deaths for people ages 18-45 from 2020-2021. * Fentanyl-related substances are currently temporarily scheduled as Sc more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on March 7, 2022: Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03), Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC-10), Ranking Member on the House Financial Services Committee, and Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06), Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswomen Deborah Ross (NC-02) and Virginia Foxx (NC-05) last week introduced the Reduce Exposure and the Threat of Unused Residual Narcotics (RETURN) Act. This bipartisan legislation will streamline drug mail-back programs by removing unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles that require distributors of unused drugs to destroy any returned drugs on-site. Through this legislation, distributors will be per more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and a group of Republican senators recently sent a letter to President Biden calling on him to reclaim American energy independence by approving the Keystone XL Pipeline and opening up federal lands to energy producers to increase domestic energy production in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine. "The world is in peril and we would like to work in a bipartisan man more PR