WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Representatives Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Mayra Flores (R-TX), and Greg Steube (R-FL) announced the introduction of the Justice for Victims of Open Borders Act, a bill that would reform grant disbursements through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) so that states must give priority to victims of violent crimes committed by people who are in the United States illegally. "The Biden administration's cataclysmi  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 4 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warning that the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) reported plans to retire its entire fleet of F-15 fighter jets in Okinawa, Japan, without replacing them with a permanent presence undermines e  more

HIGH POINT, North Carolina, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06) and North Carolina Governor Cooper visited Kid Appeal, a child care center in High Point, North Carolina, to highlight the use of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan, which Congresswoman Manning helped to pass in 2021. "I proudly voted to send federal funding home to North Carolina through the American Rescue Plan. This critical funding su  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release and letter: Representatives Kathy Manning (NC-06), and Joe Wilson (SC-02), respectively the Vice Chair and the Ranking Member of the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism Subcommittee, led a bipartisan group of Members of Congress in calling on the Biden Administration to support convening a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) focused on Iran's human right  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on Nov. 3, 2022: * * * Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to a new proposal put forth by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that would allow its own officials to subvert the will of American workers based on purely subjective grounds: "When union bosse  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release and letter: The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (R-NC), and the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, Pat Toomey (R-PA), sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler. Following the Inspector General (IG) report released last month, the Republican Lea  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release and letter: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) sent a letter to President Joe Biden after recent reports revealed that the United States has only a 26 day supply of diesel fuel, the lowest level since 2008. * * * November 3, 2022 To: The Honorable Joseph R. Biden Jr., The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden: Recent reports have highlighted an alarming shortage of diesel f  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release and letter: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services requesting updated actions the department is taking to address the surge in pediatric respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that have been overwhelming children's hospitals across the country. * * * November 3, 2022 To: The Honorable Xavier Becerra, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independenc  more