WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on March 4, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Comptroller General Gene. L. Dodaro requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the Department of Education's failure to respond timely or completely to several Committee oversight requests, including t  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on March 4, 2024: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) newest report recommending that the Department of Education make improvements to how it estimates the costs of the Direct Loan portfolio, as well as to its reporting o  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC), Senator Ted Budd (R-NC), and Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) sent a letterto the U.S. Army Secretary and Chief of Staff requesting updates and progress reports on the Joint Deployment Warfighting Complex (JDWC) at Fort Liberty. The JDWC would represent a consolidation of the XVIII Airborne Corps into a new and modern headquarters. The members said: "It is our unders  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: In case you missed it, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) held a bipartisan roundtable last week with Jewish students from Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia, University of California, Berkeley, Rutgers, Stanford, Tulane, and Cooper Union about their expe  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 5 -- Rep. Alma S. Adams, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on March 4, 2024: Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. announced today the appointment of Davidson resident Ben Sheppard to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point this week for the Fall 2024 Semester. Ben Sheppard, a senior at William Amos Hough High School, received personal congratulations from Rep. Adams, in which she informed him of his appointment to the renowned New York institut  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Rep. Valerie Foushee, D-North Carolina, issued the following statement: * * * Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (NC-04), released the following statement after voting to pass a Continuing Resolution that will extend current Fiscal Year 2023 government funding levels through March 8, 2024, with certain appropriations ending on March 22, 2024. "Once again, House Republican's inability to govern has brought us dangerously close to a government shutdown, jeopardizing the  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Rep. Valerie Foushee, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (D-NC) and Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced the Empowering Mass Participation to Offset the Wealthy's Electoral Role (EMPOWER) Act, legislation to modernize the presidential public financing system to help publicly funded candidates compete. The bill is the House companion to Senate legislation introduced by Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-  more