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Slow it down. Each 5 mph you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $0.15 per gallon for gas. Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. Potential Gas Savings: $.12-$.82/gallon Read more »

U.S. Rep.Virginia Foxx (R-5) met with local nonprofits last week to tour what will soon be the Family Resource Center of Watauga County, a joint venture by OASIS and WAMY Community Action to create a center serving those in need in the High Country. The F Read more »

Almost $5 million will be given to Yadkin County from the Federal Government towards building the on-again, off-again 5-D reservoir. Yadkin County commissioners and Rep. Virigina Foxx, R-Banner Elk announced the awarding of the money Thu Read more »

The greatest danger to the American republic is not foreign enemies. It is the view that has grown this decade that if two people cannot agree on certain issues, they must be enemies. Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC-5) wants to press the “mute” button on unwanted political calls. She has reintroduced a bill to stop the automated campaign calls, called “robo-calls,” to people who don’t want to receive them. Foxx testified before the Committ Read more »

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx is urging those who are in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure to take advantage of a newly created help-line through which homeowners can receive free financial counseling. Read more »

Inside schools across the state and the country this week there's something going on and not just the usual reading, writing and arithmetic. Community leaders are reading to students as part of American Education Week. Read more »

On Tuesday night, Representative Virginia Foxx held the Fifth District’s first-ever telephone town hall. In advance of the event, constituents received mailers and email notices about the event, inviting them to call in and “participate in her candid conv Read more »

On Tuesday, Oct. 30, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-5th District) will hold a first-of-its-kind “telephone Town Hall” conference with Fifth District constituents. Read more »

This week Congress will vote on an override of the president’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The issue of children’s health care has been highly politicized by some who realize that making accusations about not protecting Read more »