WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Alma S. Adams, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: The Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus announced a new weekly podcast, "The HBCU Caucus Podcast." Episodes of the podcast are available at anchor.fm, Spotify, and anywhere you get your podcasts. "I'm happy to announce the HBCU Caucus Podcast," said Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12), founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus. "Right now, our HBCUs are having a  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) applauded the Education Department's announcement today that it will not give preferential treatment to federal grant applicants with the intention of pushing Critical Race Theory. The announcement comes after Foxx urged Secretary Cardona to wit  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following opening statement on July 15, 2021, during a markup of four bills covering issues related to family violence, job applicant discrimination and equity in education: * * * "The last time the full Committee conducted official business there was an unfortunate incident. One of the Republican Members was insulted and slandered while asking the Sec  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. David Price, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Congressman David Price (NC-04), senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that his Community Project Funding Request for the Community Violence Interruption Project, a gun violence intervention program in Durham County, has advanced in the House as a part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. The bill passed   more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. David Price, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Congressman David Price (NC-04), Chairman of the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, (T-HUD) announced the full passage of the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY 2022) T-HUD Appropriations Bill by the Appropriations Committee. "Updating our nation's aging infrastructure, including our housing stock, is central to our economic recovery  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Congressmen G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) and Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15) introduced the bipartisan Helping Ensure Access to Local TeleHealth, or the HEALTH Act, which codifies Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services rendered by community health centers and rural health clinics. The bill also allows these health facilities to continue to utilize audio-only telehealth visits for  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03), Scott Peters (CA-52), Bobby L. Rush (IL-01), and Neal Dunn (FL-02) introduced the Facilitating Innovative Nuclear Diagnostics (FIND) Act to expand patient access to advanced nuclear diagnostic imaging technology. Medicare's reimbursement plan limits patient access to new and innovative imaging tools that can be used to improve diagnosis of life-threa  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and 15 of their colleagues introduced legislation to impose human rights sanctions on the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the regime's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi. "America must hold Iranian leaders accountable for decades of violence, terrorism, and human rights abuses, and Ayatollah Khamenei and Ebrahim Raisi should   more