The Obama administration didn't act illegally in disbursing $5 billion in funds to health insurers under an Affordable Care Act program, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said.
At a March 15 hearing on the HHS budget held by the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Reps. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) and Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) cited a Feb. 23 Congressional Research Service memo… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted to override President Obama's veto of legislation that would dismantle his deeply flawed health care law and cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
The vote to override the veto of H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, fell short of the required two-thirds majority in a… Read more »
Congress kicked off 2016 by passing a bill that repeals Obamacare and stops taxpayer funding for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
The nearly party-line vote in the House was 240-181. The bill will be sent directly to President Barack Obama's desk via the special reconciliation process.
That process allows a budget bill to pass with a simple majority, avoiding an… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted in favor of legislation that would dismantle President Obama’s deeply flawed health care law and cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
“The so-called Affordable Care Act has proved to be anything but affordable for North Carolinians, who have faced some of the largest premium increases in the country,” said Foxx. “The simple… Read more »
A visit by U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, brought more than a dozen city officials and local business people to Thomasville Area Chamber of Commerce on Friday.
Invited guests interested in hearing how national policy has affected Davidson County exchanged questions and answers with Foxx during an hour-long lunchtime meeting. Foxx – who represents a district that includes a very small… Read more »
The Thomasville Area Chamber of Commerce hosted U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, Friday for an informal forum with members of the public.
Foxx spent an hour during lunchtime meeting with small business owners and Thomasville area citizens discussing many of the issues Davidson County faces with the federal government.
“I know what it’s like to have a small business, make payroll,… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted in favor of legislation that would dismantle President Obama’s deeply flawed health care law and temporarily cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
“The so-called Affordable Care Act has proved to be anything but affordable for North Carolinians, who have faced some of the largest premium increases in the country,” said Foxx.… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, hasn’t officially announced her bid for a seventh term representing North Carolina’s 5th U.S. House District. But she left no doubt Wednesday she would seek re-election in 2016.
And though no Democratic opponent has surfaced to mount a challenge in this largely Republican district, Foxx said she anticipates a race.
“I feel certain I will have… Read more »
Virginia Foxx, who represents Ashe County in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been busy voting for a wide variety of legislation during the last week.
On Friday, July 10, Foxx cast her vote in support of House Resolution 91, also called the Veterans Identification Card Act of 2015.
According to Foxx’s spokeswoman, Sheridan Watson, this legislation will make it easier for… Read more »
For the past two years, my email inbox, mailbox and phone lines have been flooded with reports of cancelled health insurance plans, soaring premiums, increased deductibles and exasperated constituents trying to navigate the confusing Washington bureaucracy that is Obamacare.
Members of Congress have to buy their health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges along with millions of other… Read more »
