WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, passed her bill, the Securing Global Telecommunications Act through the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support. "Our country's strategic international competitors, Russia and China, are working to dominate tech and telecom around the globe by setting industry standards to favor their industries. Thi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (TNSawa) -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) has received the Digital Future Award from the Crypto Council for Innovation. "The Crypto Council for Innovation's Digital Future Award recognizes policymakers who have shown a willingness to learn from and interact with the digital assets industry, have been consistently engaged in key issues, and demonstrated a collaborative approach to an issue that has a broad, bipartis  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), joined by many colleagues, introduced the Simplified Joint Consolidation Separation Act (H.R. 8909), which will establish a more efficient process for separating joint consolidation loans to ensure timely relief for borrowers. Foxx's legislation is a commonsense  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following news release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor in opposition to S. 1098, the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act, because of its flawed design, inability to provide borrowers stuck in joint consolidated loans immediate relief, and failure to protect taxpayers: "While I fully supp  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Patrick McHenry (NC-10), the Leader of House Republicans' Task Force on Jobs and the Economy, announced the Task Force's recommendations to restore the U.S. economy through sound money, fiscal discipline, and budget enforcement. "President Biden and House Democrats are spending like drunken sailors at the expense of American taxpayers," said Republican Leader McHenry. "Due to their reckle  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) spoke on the House floor in support of the Simplified Joint Consolidation Separation Act, a Republican alternative to S. 1090. While Rep. Murphy supports the original intent of S. 1090, which permits married borrowers to urgently separate their loans, he has major concerns about this legislation becoming yet another tool for the Biden Administration to forgive mass lo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02), Nanette Barragan (CA-44), and Ann Kuster (D-NH) introduced the bipartisan Biologics Competition Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to evaluate the process by which interchangeable biological products are approved to be used in pharmaceuticals. In many cases, these interchangeable products are more affordable, i  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Last week, President Biden signed into law the Senate companion to Congresswoman Deborah Ross' (NC-02) bipartisan legislation to ensure that survivors of child sexual abuse are able to seek justice in court without being barred by statutes of limitations. Congresswoman Ross introduced the legislation with Representatives Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Guy Reschenthaler (PA-14), and Maria Salazar (FL-27). She  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. David Rouzer, R-North Carolina, issued the following opening remarks on Sept. 20, 2022: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member David Rouzer (R-NC) from today's hearing entitled, "The Clean Water Act at Fifty: Highlights and Lessons Learned from a Half Century of Transformative Legislation". Thank you, Chair Napolitano. I appreciate your holding this hearing, and I would also like to thank our witnesses for be  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Alma S. Adams, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2022: Congresswomen Alma Adams (D-NC-12) and Ashley Hinson (R-IA-01) in the House and U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced the introduction of a bipartisan resolution recognizing "National Stillbirth Prevention Day" today, September 19. The legislation was introduced in the United States House of Representatives and Senate today. Text  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2022: Representatives Richard Hudson (NC-08), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), and Bob Gibbs (OH-07) today introduced the Know Before You Owe Federal Student Loan Act, legislation that would require Institutes of Higher Education (IHEs) to counsel students before any federal loans are disbursed. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced companion legislation i  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to President Biden questioning his Administration's many policies that contradict his announcement that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. "I watched with great interest your 60 Minutes int  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release and letter: Recently, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Senate Republicans expressed concerns with the establishment of a permanent government drug price-setting program, funded by billions of taxpayer dollars in the partisan Inflation Reduction Act, and raised questions regarding federal health agencies' plans for program implementation. In a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Gary Peters (D-MI), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) introduced the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2022 to reauthorize a nationwide law enforcement program focusing on the reduction of violent crime. "We are seeing an increase in crime across our co  more