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

U.S. Reps. Richard Hudson (NC-08) and Virginia Foxx (NC-05) helped a Republican majority House pass a provision to defund the Affordable Care Act on Friday. Read more »

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 »

“Today we had an opportunity to move our government away from shut down and our country and economy away from Obamacare. This was the right step to take. The Senate must now do its part to pass this legislation.” 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 »

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 »

Oversight of the Executive Branch and its federal agencies is one of Congress’s primary responsibilities – whether the issue is the botched handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, the Justice Department’s prying into journalists’ communications or the partisanship of the IRS. Consistent with that duty, the House of Representatives is conducting intensive investigations into the IRS’s admitted abuses of power. Read more »

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said the U.S. tax code is now four times longer than the Bible. She spoke Friday at a “Countdown to Tax Day” press conference organized by Americans for Tax Reform. “I want to point out that the tax code is four times more than our Bible. And if you look at it, not only is this impossible in terms of the size of it, but look at the fine… Read more »

Tax day has come around again, and with it a startling claim about the amount of time Americans spend doing their taxes each year. According to U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., it takes United States taxpayers a total of 6.1 billion hours to file their taxes. That adds up to more than 695,000 years. "6.1 Billion hours a year, just to figure out how much money the government is going… Read more »