WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), grilled Education Secretary Miguel Cardona for his department's lack of preparedness to handle millions of student loan borrowers returning to repayment. The  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, issued the following statement on June 27, 2023: * * * Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra's threat to withhold Medicaid funding from states that rejected sex reassignment surgeries and the use of puberty blockers on minors: "Secretary Becerra's rogue public comments about blackmailing the American people with their own ta  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on June 27, 2023: * * * Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, which gave workers the right to choose whether to pay fees to a union or not: "Five years ago, Janus v. AFSCME yielded a monumental victory fo  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Rep. Kathy Manning, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06) celebrated the announcement of North Carolina receiving $1.5 billion in federal funding to expand high-speed internet. This funding is authorized through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Congresswoman Manning helped to pass in the 117th Congress. "Reliable internet access is a necessity in today's world - it is vital to ensuring tha  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, issued the following statement on June 27, 2023: * * * Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, has introduced the Protecting Endowments from Our Adversaries Act (PEOAA). The measure aims at pressuring large university endowments to purge their investment portfolios of Chinese entities deemed a threat to U.S. national security. The bill imposes a 50% excise tax on such investments when a  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Thom Tillis recently co-introduced the Protecting America's Distribution Transformer Supply Chain Act, legislation to repeal the Department of Energy's authority to propose, finalize, implement, administer, or enforce any energy efficiency standard for distribution transformers for the next five years. "The Biden Administration's war on American energy continues to make it harder to produce af  more