WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release and letter: House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to America asking the country to take a stand against the Biden administration's reckless student loan agenda. Since taking office, President Biden has forgiven massive amounts of student loans through backdoors--ignoring the will of more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release and letter: House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Labor Department Secretary Marty Walsh regarding ignored requests for Labor Department Chief of Staff Daniel Koh's calendar: In the letter, Foxx writes: "As Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, it is my duty more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 22, 2022: U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) was joined by 5 Members of the U.S. House to introduce the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act, a bill to prohibit the federal government from using the flawed social cost of carbon, social cost of methane, social cost of nitrous oxide, or the social cost of any other greenhouse gas metrics in the rulemaking process. U.S. Sena more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 22, 2022: Congresswoman Kathy Manning's (NC-06) bill, the Right to Contraception Act, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 228-195. This critical legislation would enshrine the right to birth control into federal statutory law to protect against restrictions on Americans' reproductive freedom. Congresswoman Manning's bill passage follows the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs  more PR

HIGHLANDS, North Carolina, July 23 -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on July 22, 2022: Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced that the James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory at Sandy Hook will receive $480,000 to support research on the effects of environmental change on marine habitats and fisheries surrounding Sandy Hook. Pallone secured the funding in a federal spending bill that President Biden signed into law. Pallone was joined  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 22, 2022: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) voted to pass the Right to Contraception Act, which establishes a statutory right to obtain contraceptives and for health care providers to provide contraceptives and information related to contraception. 99 percent of women who have been sexually active report having used some form of contraception, and 96 percent of voters support access to contrac more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released analysis showing Democrats' proposal to significantly expand Obamacare tax subsidies would add billions of dollars to the federal deficit to the benefit of wealthy Americans. The analysis was in response to a letter requesting the true  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored legislation targeting cartel "spotters". The Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act increases penalties for those who aid cartels in illegal activity by transmitting information about the positions of Border Patrol or destroying Border Patrol communication devices. "When I visited the border last year,  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release: Senator Mike Braun and Senator Rick Scott introduced the Reduce Exacerbated Inflation Negatively Impacting the Nation (REIN IN) Inflation Act. This bill would require the administration to publish the inflationary impact of executive actions before enacting them. The companion legislation was introduced by House Budget Committee R more PR