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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for Tuesday February 07, 2023 ( 3 items )  

McHenry Announces Tenth District Congressional App Challenge Winner
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (TNSres) -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC-10) announced Mooresville's Yunjia Quan as the winner of the Tenth District's 2022 Congressional App Challenge. Yunjia created Habit Cash, a motivational productivity-oriented software to combat burnout and lack of motivation. Yunjia also wrote a Whitepaper for a digital token, 'Habitcoins'. Users of Habit Cash can earn Habitcoins while studying and trade  more

Rep. Foxx: 'College-for-All' Mentality Failed Students
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor to highlight the Promoting Employment and Lifelong Learning (PELL) Act, which expands career-focused, skills-based education programs. Chairwoman Foxx's Remarks: "The college-for-all mentality failed our country's students. "It failed students who paid or b  more

Tillis, Republican Colleagues Challenge Biden WOTUS Rule
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and 48 of his Senate Republican colleagues recently introduced a formal challenge to the Biden Administration's Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule through a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval. The resolution comes after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced a new rule in December 2022rep  more