WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on Oct. 24, 2023: * * * House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Department of Education's issuance of a tranche of new regulations without extending due deference to Congress' jurisdiction and oversight authorities: "Adopting a 'go it alone' strategy to advance the Ed more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release: Last week, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (NC-10) and Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee Chairman Andy Barr (KY-06) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The letter asks the GAO to examine the role U.S. federal banking agencies played in work at the Basel Committee on Bank more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release: The Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bill Huizenga (MI-04), and National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding in more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-North Carolina, issued the following statement on Oct. 23, 2023: * * * Today, Congressman Jeff Jackson released the following statement on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police receiving nearly $3 million from two Department of Justice grants to process rape kits: "For every unprocessed rape kit there is a survivor of sexual assault who hasn't gotten justice. "I'm grateful that Charlotte will receive nearly $3 million in funding from the Department of Justi more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Ted Budd sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram to express their grave concern about the flow of fentanyl into our country and communities all across our State of North Carolina. On August 31, 2023, Axios Raleigh repor more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Thom Tillis recently co-introduced the Concerns Over Nations Funding University Campus Institutes in the United States (CONFUCIUS) Act to prevent Chinese-backed Confucius Institutes on U.S. college campuses from suppressing students' freedom of speech. Confucius Institutes are education organizations funded and arranged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The institutes en more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Thom Tillis and his colleagues introduced the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act to counter the Biden Administration's radical environmental agenda and executive overreach by preventing the implementation of a proposed rule and other regulations that seek to limit consumer vehicle choice. According to data from Kelley Blue Book, the average price of an electric veh more PR