WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 28, 2022: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) introduced the Build More Pipelines Act. The bill codifies the Trump Administration's rule limiting state-based regulatory roadblocks to pipeline contraction. Rep. Budd's Build More Pipelines Act is the House companion to Senator Shelley Moore Capito's (R-WV) Section 401 Certification Act. Original co-sponsors of the bill include Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Alex Mo more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 28, 2022: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) received the Hero of Main Street Award from the National Retail Federation (NRF). The award honors a bipartisan group of lawmakers for their support of public policies important to the retail industry and its millions of small businesses. Rep. Budd also congratulated Sean Brownlee of Ravenox from Burlington, NC. He was named one of the NRF's Retail Champions for 202 more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on July 28, 2022: * * * Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the U.S. economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter and the country jumping headfirst into a recession: "This administration tried its damnedest to reinvent the definition of a recession at the more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 28, 2022: The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) to update our nation's critical 911 infrastructure. "The time it takes to dial 911 can mean life or death, especially in rural communities throughout North Carolina. Yet much of our country continues to rely on 50-year-old technology to support this critical system more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release and letter on July 28, 2022: The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), the top Republican on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Tom Emmer (MN-06), and the top Republican on the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03), sent more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 28, 2022: GOP Doctors Caucus Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-02) introduced the Travel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act to examine the impact of nursing agencies on the health industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the bill would instruct the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study and report to Congress on any p more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) introduced the Asylum Accountability Act, legislation that would significantly sharpen the penalty for those who fail to appear in immigration court by permanently barring absconding illegal immigrants from gaining a benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The surge of cro more PR