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Forget The Spin, Here’s What The SNAP/Food Stamp Reform Bill Actually Does Posted September 20th, 2013 at 6:27 AM by Donna Martinez   On Thursday the U.S. House voted to reform the nation’s food stamp program, formally known as SNAP. The vote was 217 to 210. The Hill reports no Democrats voted for the reform, and a few Republicans voted against the reform —… Read more »

Iredell County’s two U.S. House of Representatives members joined most of their fellow Republicans in voting for a short-term spending plan that includes the complete defunding of the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as Obamacare. Read more »

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today issued this statement upon the House of Representatives’ passage of a Continuing Resolution (H.J. Res 59) to fund the government: Read more »

Adrian President Docking Tells House Committee How Independent Colleges are Innovating NAICU Washington Update September 20, 2013 Innovations at independent colleges were front and center as the House Committee on Education and the Workforce continued its busy hearing schedule on September 18, with a look at the transformations going on within higher education, with a particular… Read more »

The Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act hit the House floor for a vote today under a sharply worded veto threat from the White House Read more »

President Docking Testified College’s Success to Congressional Committee WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Improving Access and Affordability through Innovative Partnerships.” “America is home to the greatest higher education system in the… Read more »

National Skills Coalition recently released a side-by-side comparison of occupational training and adult education and family literacy provisions in current law to legislation in the House and Senate to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Read more »

Indiana higher education official Ken Sauer testified before a House subcommittee in Washington on Wednesday about the importance of college transfer credits for servicemen and women and the need for more information on credit recommendations. Read more »

“Extending fairness for all by giving American families the same break from ObamaCare that businesses are getting will save taxpayers and cut the Federal deficit”, says Rep. Foxx. Read more »

UNC’s Rhinehardt Supports Servicemembers and Veterans before Congress   The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing Wednesday to examine the steps higher education institutions are taking to better support servicemembers and veterans who are working to earn a postsecondary degree or obtain valuable job training… Read more »