WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Following a letter led by Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) and signed by 22 of her House colleagues last December, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) this week announced several measures to reduce the growing backlog of immigration applications, which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and has left millions of immigrants' lives in limbo. Two of the changes announced by USCIS wer more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) announced that the U.S. Post Office located at 806 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, North Carolina has been successfully renamed the Oberlin Village Post Office. For several months, Congresswoman Ross urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to change the post office's name to the Oberlin Village Post Office, which more accurately conveys its geographic location and recognizes the more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) accepted the Guardian of Seniors' Rights Award from the 60 Plus Association, one of the nation's leading non-partisan organizations dedicated to protecting the rights of America's senior citizens. Rep. Budd said in a statement: "I'd like to thank the 60 Plus Association for this award. Protecting the rights of seniors, securing Social Security and Medicare's solvency, and eliminatin more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) hosted a roundtable discussion on the importance of protecting parental rights. Following the meeting, Republican Leader Foxx said: "Ideologically driven K-12 curriculum is unacceptable. Efforts to reform K-12 education should focus on increasin more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement: * * * Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement in response to the Senate's failed cloture vote on President Biden's nomination of David Weil to run the Wage and Hour Division at the Labor Department: "David Weil's open hostility to economic opportunity and innovation re more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on March 31, 2022: * * * Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement in response to the passage of H.R. 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which imposes socialist drug controls, worsens the root problem of high insulin prices, and raises the cost of health care coverage  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) reacted to the Democrats' introduction of workforce development legislation: "The majority's decision to bypass a bipartisan opportunity is truly unfortunate. I will continue working toward substantive reforms for America's workforce development more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to H.R. 6833, the so-called Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would bring our country one step closer to a socialist health care system. Key Excerpts from Republican Leader Foxx's Remarks: "Americans are r more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: On the House Floor, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) condemned the Left's reinterpretation of Title IX to erase women from sports. Republican Leader Foxx's Remarks: "The strides women have made across all corners of the sports world deserve to be celebrated, not torn to piece more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) released the following statement on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court: "Earlier this week, I met with Judge Jackson to discuss the experience and judicial philosophy she would bring to the Supreme Court if confirmed. "My top concern going into our meeting was ascertaining Judge Jackson's position on radical proposals to pack  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, recently co-introduced legislation that would protect children from sexual exploitation by enhancing the penalties for possessing child pornography and by preventing judges from sentencing offenders below federal guidelines. The epidemic of child pornography in the United States is growing exponentially. Just over a decade a more PR