WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) unveiled a new and detailed accounting of the pervasive degradation of First Amendment rights on college campuses across the nation. This hostile takeover of postsecondary education by political activists, woke faculty, and partisan administrators has established a dan more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Wiley Nickel, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2023: Today, during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol, Congressman Wiley Nickel (NC-13) introduced the No Budget, No Pay Act. The legislation would hold Members of Congress financially accountable if Congress does not agree to a budget resolution or pass regular appropriations bills on a timely basis. Congressman Nickel introduced the No Budget, No Pay Act with original cospons more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2023: Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) today announced that Blue Ridge Southern Railroad in Haywood County will be awarded $12.6 million in funding through the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program. "As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I'm pleased to announce that $12.6 million will be awarded to Blue Ridge Southern R more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, issued the following statement on Sept. 21, 2023: * * * Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after reintroducing the Spending Safeguard Act, legislation that would clamp down on Washington's reckless and wasteful spending binges with commonsense budgetary reforms: "Washington has proven time and again that it is simply incapable of being a good steward of hardworking taxpayer dollars - history c more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) requested a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of the Department of Education's (ED) work to return student loan borrowers to repayment. With s more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release: The House Financial Services Committee passed eleven pieces of legislation out of Committee that strengthen national security, protects Americans' financial privacy, and prevents the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) without explicit authorization from Congress. More information on all eleven bills reported out of the Financi more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release: The House Financial Services Committee, led by Chairman Patrick McHenry (NC-10), is holding a markup of measures to strengthen American national security, protect Americans' financial privacy, and prohibit the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Read Chairman McHenry's opening remarks as prepared for delivery: "Today, we will more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Valerie Foushee, D-North Carolina, issued the following opening statement on Sept. 20, 2023: * * * Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (NC-04), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee, delivered the following opening remarks at the Subcommittee Hearing titled, A Bar Too High: Concerns with CEQ's Proposed Regulatory Hurdle for Federal Contracting. You can watch the hearing here (https://www more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Today, Representatives Deborah Ross (NC-02), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Doris Matsui (CA-07), Terri Sewell (AL-07), and Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) led 139 House Democrats in a letter to House and Appropriations Committee leadership requesting that they advance responsible appropriations legislation free of poison pill provisions and adequately fund non-defense discretionary programs at the caps agreed to in  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Senators Thom Tillis, Marco Rubio (R-FL), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and J.D. Vance (R-OH) recently introduced the Protecting Conscience in Healthcare Act, which prohibits government agencies and federally-funded health facilities, such as hospitals and health clinics, from requiring employees to participate in activities that promote radical genderideology. "This common-sense legislation protects heal more PR