The House on Wednesday passed legislation to require federal agencies to evaluate the full economic effects of regulations.
Passed 250-173, the measure would further require agencies to consult with private sector entities impacted by the proposed rules.
Under the bill, the Congressional Budget Office would be required to evaluate economic effects of regulations on state, local and… Read more »
The House passed by a vote of 250-173 the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act (H.R. 50), which is intended to protect the private sector from regulatory costs imposed by the federal government.
The legislation, introduced again this year by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), was approved over Democrats' objections in January by the House Committee on Oversight and Government… Read more »
House Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation this week to counter President Obama’s efforts to circumvent Congress by having federal agencies push the envelope in federal rulemaking.
Under Obama, the agencies have adopted various new interpretations of their rulemaking authority that effectively allow the president to legislate without lawmakers. The Republicans' legislation… Read more »
The House will likely produce a Higher Education Act reauthorization bill the first week of March, said Rep. Virginia Foxx, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Speaking at the National Council of Higher Education Resources’ 2015 legislative conference, Foxx said that through reauthorization, she and her colleagues will “do all that we can to… Read more »
With the grand opening of its new mattress store on Thursday at its manufacturing campus off North Point Boulevard, Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind is once again selling mattresses to the public.
Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind Mattress Store is at 7730 North Point Drive. The stores hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Its offerings include premium sets… Read more »
Don’t expect many more congressional hearings on Higher Education Act reauthorization, Rep. Virginia Foxx said today; lawmakers are eager to move on to the committee mark-up process.
In the next few months, Foxx said, the House and Senate will introduce separate bills that she hopes to move on parallel tracks through to conference committees.
But that doesn’t mean there will be a… Read more »
In this week’s State of the Union Address, President Obama said that the nation should follow Tennessee’s lead and provide community college for free to all students who can maintain a “C” average.
To do this, he proposed spending $60 billion over the next 10 years. However, if he really wanted to follow Tennessee’s lead, the government wouldn’t have to allocate any new money, and… Read more »
Despite new-found control in both chambers of the U.S. Congress, Republican lawmakers representing North Carolina spent more time in their seats than their Democratic colleagues Tuesday evening, at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address.
The speech, Obama’s sixth as president, found him declaring a page turned after years of war and recession and championing policies… Read more »
Virginia Foxx was sworn in to her sixth term as the representative of North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District on Tuesday, Jan. 6.
Following her swearing in, Foxx voted for John Boehner, a Republican representative from Ohio, to serve his third term as speaker of the House. Boehner was narrowly re-elected as speaker of the House, capturing 216 votes from his colleagues, after needing… Read more »
In his sixth State of the Union address, President Barack Obama laid out plans to improve the economy, public education, bipartisan efforts in Congress, cyber security and more.
Senator Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, said the president failed to work with Congress. After the speech, he told WFMY News 2 in a statement:
"The President began the year with an opportunity to work with… Read more »
