In an interview with The Mount Airy News, a newspaper based out of Mount Airy, N.C., (a small town best known as the inspiration for Andy Griffith’s Mayberry), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) asserts there is plenty of access to health insurance in the U.S. when the true picture is More…
It’s not too often that North Carolina U.S. Reps. Brad Miller (D) and Virginia Foxx (R) end up voting together on controversial legislation. The same can be said of Democrat Mel Watt and Republican Walter Jones. But Tuesday’s vote to renew parts of the PATRIOT Act — in a More…
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R) leads the entire North Carolina congressional delegation with $1,204,438 in cash-on-hand (COH) at the end of the 2010 fundraising cycle, through December 31, 2010. No other N.C. members were in the top 100 in COH among the entire U.S. Congress.
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Democratic U.S. Reps. Heath Shuler and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina have joined 171 other members of Congress as co-sponsors of H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Federal law prohibits government funding of abortions except in some cases including incest and rape, but H.R. 3 seeks More…
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, told The Chronicle of Higher Education recently she aims to hold hearings to examine student loan reform, which became law in 2010 with the goal of ending federal government subsidization of private More…
In reaction to the shootings in Tucson, Ariz., last weekend, where six were killed and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx (R) told the Winston-Salem Journal that members of Congress have not inspired any violence through incendiary rhetoric. She went on to assert More…
In light of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Politico reports that North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) said in the future, he will take extra precautions of his own during public events: “After the elections, I let my guard down. Now I know I need to have [my gun] More…
The North Carolina Independent News reported this week on the new chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx and her priorities for the new U.S. Congress. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took notice and included it
The 112th U.S. Congress convened Wednesday, committee assignments are now set and hearings are in the works. While much attention has been paid to what higher-profile committees in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives have planned — mainly, House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa’s investigations of the Obama administration — other More…
On a call with constituents today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) appeared to agree with callers who said that immigration constitutes an “invasion” of the United States and that one way of dealing with illegal immigrants from certain countries is to use a “drag net and round them all up.”
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