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Just last fall, the House Education and Workforce Committeeheld a hearing on college data where Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chair of the Committee, acknowledged the “tremendous problem” of students who do not fit in the shrinking first time, full time box. Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx is encouraging high school students from North Carolina's Fifth Congressional District to submit entries for the 2013 Congressional Art Competition. Read more »

U.S. Rep .Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., was present at the dinner to help award the organization’s Republican of the Year award. Before Foxx assisted with the award she took a moment to discuss her work in Washington, D.C. Read more »

"Though citizens are able to stop receiving telemarketing calls, politicians made sure to exempt political robocalls from the power of the Do Not Call Registry. If these calls weren't such a nuisance, their blatant exclusion would be laughable. Removi Read more »

Foxx is sponsoring a bill that would repeal requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act - passed in the 1930's - from highway projects. She says that requires union-level wages be paid by contractors working on highways. She says it is not necessary to charge Read more »

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx was in Statesville on Friday in part to show support and gather information for what is being called the SKILLS (Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills) Act. Prior to attending a private meeting with Statesville R Read more »

It is a rare occurrence that republican House members agree with the President on a particular issue. But it occurred earlier this week during the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce (Putting America Back to Work: Reforming the Nation's Wor Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) is the lead sponsor of the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act, which is meant to improve upon the Unfunded Mandates Act (UMRA) that President Clinton signed into law. That act was meant to force agencies to esti Read more »

But on Tuesday morning, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who chairs the Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee, included a promise from the president's 2012 State of the Union address as she rolled out hearings on her job-training bill. Read more »

President Obama's State of the Union address and his speech at the University of Michigan made broad sweeping comments about education and the issue of rising college costs. Read more »