U.S. House Rep. Virginia Foxx voted in favor of legislation to amend certain surveillance authorities currently granted to the United States government.
H.R. 2048, also known as the USA Freedom Act, passed through the United States House of Representatives by a vote of 338-88 on May 13. The act, if signed into law, would make several amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance… Read more »
Gov. Pat McCrory on Friday announced four bills becoming law after receiving his signature.
The bills focus on school performance grades, handicapped parking placards, sale of deer skins and building codes. The bills don’t include any local legislators as sponsors or co-sponsors.
House Bill 358 would extend the use of a 15-point scale for school performance grades. The extension… Read more »
Phil Berger is not a man in a hurry. The North Carolina Senate leader seems to have all the time in the world — his scheduler enters his sun-drenched, wood-paneled office three, four times to get him to wrap up our interview and Berger cheerfully shoos him out. “You’re going to have to give me at least 10 more minutes,” he says in an easy Southern drawl. And why shouldn’t he have them?… Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, exactly two years after a Pennsylvania jury found abortionist Kermit Gosnell guilty of murdering late-term infants born alive.
“Late-term abortion is not health, and it’s not care,” Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., a registered nurse, said on the House floor. “This is a human rights issue.”
The… Read more »
The House voted Wednesday to ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy as Republicans delivered a key piece of the pro-life agenda and overcame an embarrassing false start earlier this year.
Dubbed the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," the legislation cleared on a 242-184 vote that largely broke along party lines, with just four pro-life Democrats joining in support and… Read more »
A sunny Saturday helped draw crowds from Jonesville and the surrounding area for the annual Jonesville Jubilee. From local skydivers putting on a show to bouncy houses for the kids, the festival had something to offer for everyone in attendance.
The event, which drew an estimated crowd of hundreds, featured local churches selling food, including port-a-pit chicken, as well as… Read more »
West Iredell High School students got instruction on a little bit of everything from U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx on Monday.
The six-term congresswoman for the 5th District visited Ms. Brooke Campbell’s personal finance class as part of an event called the SIFMA Foundation Capitol Hill Challenge, which has taken place for more than a decade and includes something called the Stock Market… Read more »
Shortly before midnight Thursday, without fanfare, the U.S. House voted to repeal a Washington D.C. law that will prohibit employers from discriminating against workers who obtain abortions or use birth control.
The 228-192 vote was symbolic venting and conservative vote-scorecard padding, at most.
That’s because Monday is the legal deadline for Congress to override the District of… Read more »
Republicans pushed legislation through the House Thursday that would revoke a District of Columbia law barring discrimination in the city against workers who have abortions, the latest clash pitting claims of religious freedom against reproductive rights.
House passage was largely symbolic because the capital city's law takes effect Saturday unless Congress first approves legislation… Read more »
“Just to let you know, we members of Congress, we actually pray all the time – most often in private, but tonight we’re here as witnesses to each other before God.”
That’s what Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., told the crowd of roughly a hundred guests at the 2015 “Washington: A Man of Prayer” service, held in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
The event, now in its fourth year, is an effort by… Read more »
