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School is out for the summer, but Davie High School history teacher Daric Beiter just spent two weeks in the nation’s capital learning more about how the government works. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx today voted for the final version of a bill (H.R. 1) that will enact several recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. The bill contains provisions that allow for the screening of seaborne cargo as well as strong pr Read more »

Representatives Virginia Foxx and Patrick McHenry yesterday secured $1 million in federal funding for the Statesville Regional Airport, which is included in the Fiscal Year 2008 U.S. Department of Transportation Appropriations bill. The fund Read more »

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx today praised an agreement reached last night that will protect Americans who report suspicious activity to authorities. The agreement, which will be included in a bill that implements recommendations of the 9 Read more »

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx today praised the government’s announcement that the 2007 federal budget shortfall will be $40 billion lower than anticipated. The deficit has been cut in half in just the last three years, and is at its low Read more »

Congress today passed a bill sponsored by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx that honors the Appalachian State University football team’s second consecutive national championship win. Foxx introduced the bill in January shortly after the ASU Mo Read more »

Watauga County resident and Blowing Rock native Pearce Godwin last Friday finished a seven-week internship in Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s Washington, D.C. office. Godwin, a 2004 graduate of Watauga High School, is a rising senior at Duke University wher Read more »

The Fourth of July is a time to do more than just take in the fireworks and parades. It is also an opportunity for me to reflect on the Founding Fathers’ experiment in liberty and the sacrifices they made to secure our freedoms. As they struggled to bre Read more »

“This defeat for the immigration bill signals that the American people have made it clear that under no circumstances do they support legislation offering amnesty to illegal aliens. The Senate finally heard the American people’s voices and voted to put t Read more »

In a move intended to keep the United States’ taxpayer dollars out of the hands of groups that promote abortion, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx voted in support of an amendment to restore the Mexico City Policy. The Mexico City Policy, first ena Read more »