WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after introducing the SOAR Act Improvements Act, legislation that makes targeted improvements to the only federally funded school choice program in the nation to help children from low-income families in Washington, D.C. succeed.
“School choice has the power to improve the lives and trajectories… Read more »
OAK RIDGE, N.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx will hold a U.S. Service Academy Day on Saturday, September 6th, from 10am-12pm at Oak Ridge Military Academy in the Bonner Gymnasium. Representatives from all five U.S. Service Academies will be on hand to answer questions and provide information on their respective application processes. This event is open to all students,… Read more »
BANNER ELK, N.C. – Today, Representatives Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced the bipartisan Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, legislation that prohibits colleges and universities from receiving federal student aid if they engage in commercial and academic boycotts dictated by those in the boycott-sanction-divest (BDS) movement.
“The antisemitic… Read more »
BANNER ELK, N.C. – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding Columbia University’s $200 million agreement with the Trump administration.
“Last April, on the steps of Low Library at Columbia University, I stood alongside Speaker Johnson, several of my Republican colleagues, and Jewish students to call attention to the university’s invertebrate… Read more »
BANNER ELK, N.C. – Today, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in support of Israel’s deterrence of Iran’s ongoing attacks and the Iranian people’s pursuit of freedom from their country’s own tyrannical government.
“Iran’s political regime continues to pose a significant threat to peace, stability, and civil society across the entire world – Israel’s recent… Read more »
Since the day the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was constituted, so-called liberal “pundits” within the mainstream media have whipped themselves into a self-induced, apoplectic frenzy. They sprang to their bully pulpits and preached of a forthcoming apocalypse — as if to suggest that an injection of accountability and transparency within the federal government is a… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after signing on as an official cosponsor to the Helene Small Business Recovery Act, legislation authored by Representative Chuck Edwards that provides a technical fix to loan duplications of benefits issued for survivors of Hurricane Helene:
“Following a disaster, the federal government should… Read more »
In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, adopting tactics of the minority will never yield substantive wins for the majority. Caving to that temptation will backfire and undercut our own ability to govern and legislate. The agenda of President Donald Trump, along with the mandate that was given to this majority, will be circumvented entirely – a result that should never… Read more »
Purveyors of the status quo in Washington, and those who are scattered across every state throughout the country, are watching in real time as the bureaucratic goliaths they faithfully champion take a one-two punch of accountability. This root and branch overhaul by President Trump and his administration is exactly the prescription the nation needs at this moment. It’s a proper course… Read more »
MAYODAN, NORTH CAROLINA – In partnership with the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx invites all Vietnam-era veterans residing in North Carolina's 5th Congressional District to be honored in a Vietnam War Commemoration Pinning Ceremony and receive a Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin. The ceremony will be held at 12:30PM on April 4th at the… Read more »
