WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2022: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) voted for House measures to provide more resources to police departments across North Carolina. H.R. 6448, the Invest to Protect Act, increases Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants to local and tribal governments with fewer than 125 law enforcement officers. H.R. 5768, the VICTIM Act, creates a new $1 billion grant program within the DOJ's  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release: The House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing with the CEOs of America's largest retail banks. Republicans believe Americans deserve to hear how these financial institutions plan to support their customers through troubling economic headwinds caused by Democrats' failed economic agenda, instead of far-left talking p more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2022, and letter: Ahead of today's hearing with the CEOs of America's largest retail banks, Committee Republicans--led by Patrick McHenry (NC-10)--sent a letter to Amalgamated Bank. Committee Republicans are objecting to the bank's efforts to hijack our financial system to force companies to track law-abiding American more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Rep. David Rouzer, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2022: Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07) today announced the City of Boiling Spring Lakes has been awarded federal grant funding under the Defense Community Infrastructure Pilot Program (DCIP), included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, to restore four dams damaged by Hurricane Florence in 2018. "Four years ago, Hurricane Florence devastated Boiling Spring Lakes and destro more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Following the Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v. EPA, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, James Comer (KY-01), and the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, Kay Granger (TX-12), s more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) and Congressman Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (GA-01) introduced bipartisan legislation that will increase patients' access to pharmaceuticals by cutting unnecessary bureaucracy within the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The Improving Access to Safe Medicines Act will ensure that the DEA makes timely decisions on whether to de-schedule drugs recommended by the Food and Dru more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2022: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development has awarded Robeson County and Scotland County a $25 million grant to improve broadband and comes from the bipartisan infrastructure package which Senator Tillis helped negotiate and pass into law. The grant will be used to help the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation  more PR