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The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday to end public financing of presidential campaigns and political-party conventions. The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, would eliminate the box on tax retur Read more »

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina, said on Tuesday that one of her priorities for higher education in the new session of Congress would be to question the amount and scope of regulation that the U.S. Education Department applies to Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) is ready to take on annoying politicians. Foxx introduced a bill this month directing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to apply its Do Not Call Registry to the despised phenomenon that candidates of all stripes have come Read more »

Fifth District Congresswoman Virginia Foxx said she and the new Republican Majority in the U.S. House are ready to flex their muscle after they are sworn into office on Wednesday. She said the GOP will take charge of the 112th Congress and make sweeping Read more »

U.S. Rep. Viriginia Foxx was sworn in Wednesday as a member of the 112th Congress. But unlike her last two oaths, this one places Foxx back into the majority with her fellow members of the Republican Caucus. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx will take over the chairmanship of a subcommittee focused on higher education, her office announced today. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a conservative Republican from North Carolina who has questioned some of President Obama's education priorities, will lead the higher-education subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 112th Congress, the congresswoman announced on Tuesday. Representative Foxx, a former community-college president and professor, said in a statement that she… Read more »

During some brief remarks at the White House on Monday, President Obama said work being done on a tax-cuts package by the U.S. Senate "proves that both parties can, in fact, work together to grow our economy and look out for the American people." But tha Read more »

The diplomatic cable dump by WikiLeaks has caused a wide variety of reaction from lawmakers. Fifth District Congresswoman Virginia Foxx said the Obama administration needs to do more to prevent these leaks. Read more »

It has been two weeks since the election that saw the Republicans make significant gains in the U.S. Congress and the North Carolina General Assembly. North Carolina U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, who will now be in the majority party, said the new majority wil Read more »