WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on May 11, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2022, which throws out important accountability measures for the federal workers' compensation program. Below are key excerpts from Republican Leader Foxx more PR

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on May 11, 2022: Three bills by U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) advanced today in the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. HR 7233, the Keeping Incarceration Discharges Streamlined for Children and Accommodating Resources in Education (KIDS CARE) Act, was approved during a subcommittee markup by a vote of 32-0. Introduced by Rep. Hudson along with Representatives Ann Kuster (D-NH) and A more PR

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on May 11, 2022: The U.S. House of Representatives passed several pieces of bipartisan financial services legislation, including three bills introduced by Committee Republicans. Among the bipartisan bills passed are Republican-led initiatives to further isolate the Putin regime from the international financial system in response to  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) led 36 of their House and Senate colleagues in calling for the repeal of a Trump-era prohibition on new lease sales for offshore wind energy projects off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida in the final text of the bipartisan innovation legislation. Included in the House-passed America COMPETES Act a more PR

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on May 11, 2022: Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS more PR