WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) released the following statement on the first anniversary of the deadly Hamid Karzai International Airport bombing which claimed the lives of 13 brave U.S. servicemembers in Kabul, Afghanistan. Among the fallen heroes was Sgt. Nicole Gee of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, who was supporting non-combatant evacuations during the U.S. withdrawal from Afgh  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) has wasted no time in holding the Biden administration accountable, particularly when she sees agencies like the Department of Labor (DOL) or the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tipping the scales in favor of union bosses at the expense of A  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06) commemorated Women's Equality Day by participating in the Women's Health Day of Action and highlighting the importance of the continued fight to protect women's reproductive rights. In 1973, Congress designated August 26 as Women's Equality Day to celebrate the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920, extending the right to vote to women nationwide.  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) sent a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) asking what steps his administration has taken to remove convicted offenders from employment in North Carolina Public Schools. * * * Governor Cooper, Recent national press reports have highlighted that a public school counselor in Fairfax, Virginia, was allowed to keep his job after a conviction for soliciting a minor. Situat  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: On Thursday afternoon, Education and Labor Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the disastrous consequences of President Biden's student loan cancellation scheme. Video and key excerpts below: We're talking real money... "This [is] a hair-brained scheme, that the   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), issued the following statement in response to the agreement announced today between the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and Chinese officials regarding inspections and investigations of audit firms based in Chi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Parents are sick of being called "domestic terrorists" and "extremists" by the Left, but they are even more sick of their children not getting the education they need. That's why Republicans are proposing solutions that promote educational freedom, increase transparency, protect students from a radical leftist agen  more