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 that said the funds were supposed to go to the U.S. Treasury for administration costs and that the Obama administra...
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U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, and North Davidson Middle School Principal Amy Hyatt look over seventh-grader Brady Gum's shoulder during his computer skills class Monday. Mat Batts/The Dispatch Two Davidson County schools played host to U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, on Monday, showcasing many of the tools and projects taking place in their classrooms each day. During their newly created “Armor Hour,” members of North Davidson High School's student council spoke with Foxx and Davidson County S...
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted in favor of legislation that revises a number of existing programs to expand access to, and opportunities for, hunting, fishing and recreational shooting on federal lands. H.R. 2406, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act of 2015, also eliminates red tape, safeguards against new regulations impeding outdoor sporting activities on public lands and protects Second Amendment rights. It passed the House by a vote of 242-161. “Fe...
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today released the following statement regarding the Obama administration’s declaration that it will not enforce provisions in the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act combating the boycotts, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel: “It is the responsibility of the president of the United States to uphold the letter and intent of the laws passed by Congress. The Obama administration’s actions are outrageous, and I am deeply concerned wi...
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America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave. When you stop to think about it, it’s amazing that men and women choose to serve in our armed services, knowing full well that their sacrifice could be tremendous – and even require their life. But still they volunteer. They do so because America – her ideals, her people and her way of life – is worth defending. The entire nation owes our military personnel and veterans a huge debt of gratitude, and ensuring that debt is prope...
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Republican lawmakers are using the occasion of John B. King Jr.'s nomination to become secretary of education to revisit the controversy over the Education Department's enforcement of campus sexual assault law. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) broached the subject in a House hearing Wednesday (and swiftly posted the video to her Twitter). And it's likely to surface again today on the Senate side — probably, insiders say, from HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, who has a close relationship with ...
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North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx questioned the Education Department's overreach when it comes to campus sexual assault during a hearing on Wednesday. The congresswoman directed her question to Dr. John King, the acting secretary of the Education Department, who is currently going through the confirmation process to officially become head of the department. "I'm very concerned about what's happening within your department's Office for Civil Rights and its impact on college campuses acr...
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., is encouraging high school students in North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District to submit entries for the 2016 Congressional Art Competition, which is a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize talented young artists and promote the valuable role meaningful art plays in our society. “Every year our country’s top young artists have the chance to display their work in the United States Capitol where it will be seen by visitors from arou...
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Rep. Virginia Foxx said in a heated exchange with Acting Education Secretary John B. King Jr. this morning that she thinks the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is out of line. Foxx, the leading candidate to become the next chair of the House education committee, said that “for too long, the OCR has gone around Congress,” and she isn’t sure about the “legitimacy and effectiveness” of the agency’s actions. And “the office has used the Dear Colleague process and implied threat of inve...
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today released the following statement regarding President Obama’s plan to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and transfer up to 60 prisoners to the United States mainland: “Bringing dangerous terrorists to the American homeland has been consistently rejected by bipartisan majorities in Congress. President Obama’s stubborn insistence on fulfilling an ill-advised campaign promise to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay distracts fro...
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