CARY, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- Rep. Wiley Nickel, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Wiley Nickel (NC-13) traveled to Israel with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Leader Emeritus Steny Hoyer, and a congressional delegation of House Democrats. Over the course of a week, Congressman Nickel met with key leaders and officials, including President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Lapid, and Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh. The d more PR

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Aug. 23 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06) announced North Carolina A&T State University was selected for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative, which will award $70 million in federal funding for student research and workforce training to colleges and universities across the country, including four North Car more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) helped write H.R. 5241 as a solution to protect access to government pension plans for firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics in Western North Carolina and across the country. Federal law currently prohibits first responders who are employed full-time by nonprofit departments to access state pension plans despite the fact that they provide t more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-09) joined Rep. Greg Murphy (NC-03), along with Reps. Patrick McHenry (NC-10), Dan Bishop (NC-08), Virginia Foxx (NC-05), Chuck Edwards (NC-11), and David Rouzer (NC-07), to introduce legislation that would allow volunteer firefighters and emergency medical service (EMS) workers to join a state or local retirement system. "Firefighters and EMS workers keep our more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: Today, Representatives Kathy Manning (NC-06) and Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK), Co-Chairs of the House and Senate Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism, led a bipartisan group of 87 Members of Congress in sending a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, urging the U.S. Department of Education to take addit more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2023: Today, Senator Thom Tillis announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be awarding $24.9 million to North Carolina to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 2,674 people, 84 businesses, 117 farms,and four educational facilities in Bladen, Columbus, and Sampson Counties. All funding comes directly from the Bipartisan  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Thom Tillis recently joined Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), John Cornyn (R-TX), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D), and James Lankford (R-OK) to introduce the bipartisan, bicameral Safer Supervision Act, a bill that would better ensure that the federal supervised release system is directing its resources to most effectively reduce rec more PR