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"We've all seen how Washington's involvement in rate-setting is a recipe for uncertainty and confusion. Students deserve better," Foxx said in a statement Wednesday. The Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act ... ends the temporary fixes that have failed to strengthen our nation's student loan system and offers long-term simplicity, rate caps and an assurance that interest rates are immediately in line with the free market." Read more »

“It’s about time that bipartisanship on this issue won the day,” said Republican Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, who leads the higher-education panel of the Education and Workforce Committee. Read more »

"It's about time that bipartisanship on this issue won the day in Washington," Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, a senior Republican on the House Education Committee, said moments before the vote on the House floor. Read more »

“Campaign promises and political posturing should not play a role in the setting of student loan interest rates,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C. “Borrowers deserve better.” Read more »

Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) stated, “We’ve all seen how Washington’s involvement in rate-setting is a recipe for uncertainty and confusion. Students deserve better." Read more »

"McKenzie Chasteen represented Watauga well today," Foxx said. "I'm so happy that the Congressional Art Competition gives talented students like McKenzie the opportunity to come to their Capitol for recognition and a front row seat to the work that goes on in the People's House. Hundreds of thousands of visitors pass through the Capitol each year, and I'm glad McKenzie's artwork will be enjoyed by so many." Read more »

The House of Representatives is carefully considering how to correct immigration policies so that America’s border is secured, our laws dutifully enforced, and the draw for illegal immigration removed. I encourage you to take a moment to read a column I wrote that outlines my priorities for strengthening immigration. The text is available here and an excerpt is included below. Read more »

Wednesday evening, bipartisan regulatory transparency legislation sponsored by Representatives Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike McIntyre (D-NC) and Collin Peterson (D-MN) successfully advanced from the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act, H.R. 899, will fix loopholes within the bipartisan regulatory reform act known as UMRA. Read more »

Foxx called the current regulations "ill-conceived" and urged the full House to act to repeal them so issues of affordability, accountability, and transparency can be carefully addressed during the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Read more »

That proposal – the Smarter Solutions for Students Act authored by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) – got tangled up in gridlock and division among Senate Democrats, who were so committed to extending the status quo that they left town and let interest rates on some loans double. “Republicans took political advantage of the fissure among Democrats” to secure a victory for students and their families with a final bill that one member of the Senate majority grudgingly admits is “almost identical to that passed by a … Republican-led House.” Read more »