WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery issued the following testimony by Mecklenburg County Board Chairman George Dunlap, on behalf of the National Association of Counties, involving a hearing on March 17, 2022, entitled "Creating a More Resilient Nation: Stakeholder Perspectives": * * * On behalf of the National Association of Counties (NACo), thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the important role counties  more PR

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, May 26 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following statement: * * * Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06) released the following statement after a shooter killed nineteen students and two adults in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. "Once again, families are experiencing unfathomable grief because a violent man, with easy access to weapons of war, orchestrated a mass shooting in an elementary school. This cannot be the violent re more PR

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. David Price, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congressman David Price (NC-04) announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health a $65 million grant to establish an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center. One of nine centers around the country established by the NIH, the Di more PR

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release and letter: Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D.'s (NC-03) and Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) sent a bipartisan letter to Acting Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) Chairman David Jones expressing concern regarding a recent FRTIB decision which could expose U.S. federal employee and service member retirement savings to Chinese companies. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio led an identical Senate version of the let more PR