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Both members of Iredell County’s contingent to the U.S. House of Representatives were hoping a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court would take some of the wind from the sails of the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as "Obamacare." Through emails, both said they were disappointed on Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled, in a case known as King v. Burwell, that federal tax… Read more »

Up until Thursday morning, insurance agent Mark Thacker took calls from clients wondering what would happen to their health coverage if the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a key part of the Affordable Care Act. Today, Thacker’s clients can wonder no longer. In the second landmark decision on the Affordable Care Act in the past three years, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold… Read more »

The Obama administration has abandoned a plan for the federal government to rate colleges and universities, opting instead to give consumers more tools and information to draw their own conclusions. The announcement Thursday shifted the course of an initiative that had drawn sharp criticism from the higher education community soon after President Obama announced it on Aug. 22,… Read more »

A House employment subcommittee pushed Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez on Wednesday to explain how a proposed fiduciary duty regulation for financial advisers who work with retirement savers will affect adviser-client relationships and the quantity of lawsuits advisers deal with. The department's plan is to make advisers act in the best interest of their customers if they get paid to… Read more »

The U.S. House voted Tuesday to give itself more time to try to salvage President Barack Obama’s faltering trade agenda. House members will now have until July 30 to reconsider a vote on trade-adjustment assistance that failed last Friday. House leaders originally planned to bring up the issue early this week. The House voted 236 to 189 for the extension, including it in a rule for… Read more »

Utah’s Jason Chaffetz caught the eye of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP leaders last year when he traded reciprocal home district visits with the ranking Democrat on the bitterly divided House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. On Armed Services, Mac Thornberry of Texas continued to cement his credentials as one of the GOP’s top defense wonks by leading a task… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-5th) talks to the Class of 2015 U.S. Service Academy appointees in her Clemmons office Friday. U.S. 5th District Representative Virginia Foxx is holding a telephone town hall tonight. It comes at a time when Foxx is preparing another run for office and another challenge from within her party. The difficult balance of privacy versus security is likely to be… Read more »

Even as a House committee gave it a procedural go-ahead, a funding bill that contains several provisions sought by the trucking industry would likely face a veto, the White House said Monday. The annual appropriations package for the Transportation and the Housing departments (HR 2577), also known as the T-HUD bill, includes policy riders that would extend a suspension of the restart… Read more »

In the gravel and sand of Estonia’s Central Training Area, members of United States congress visited Team Estonia May 29, on day one of a three-day platoon live-fire exercise. “Today Anvil Troop, 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade part of 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Brigade, is preparing for a three-day… Read more »

Members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation sent a letter Thursday to the head of the Federal Aviation Administration asking the agency to speed up allocating funds for a new control tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The FAA is planning to open the new tower – which will be much taller and able to see all of the airport’s runways more effectively – in… Read more »