Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s Fifth District, including Watauga County, voted with a 246-177 majority on House Bill 6094 on Sept. 28 to delay the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule for six months.
The DOL rule, scheduled to take effect in December, makes anyone earning up to $47,476 a year eligible for overtime pay. The salary cutoff now is… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., has introduced legislation that ensures Congress has the opportunity to take action when mandatory programs exceed their cost estimates.
“Washington has a serious spending problem and increases in mandatory spending are the largest cause of our worsening fiscal outlook. These programs often come in significantly over budget and Congress… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted to delay the effective date of the Department of Labor’s controversial overtime rule for six months.
“All too often the executive branch enacts policies that sound wonderful but impose unintended consequences and burdens that make the lives of hardworking Americans more difficult,” said Foxx during remarks on the House floor. “This… Read more »
The clock is ticking on efforts to fend off the overtime rule, despite 21 states' lawsuit against the Department of Labor (DOL) and, in a separate effort, small businesses seeking a delay in the effective date. Unless the states can block it or the National Federation of Independent Business can get it delayed, the rule is less than three months away from taking effect on Dec.… Read more »
Rep. Virginia Foxx, who confirmed her candidacy to chair the House Education and the Workforce Committee this week, said in an interview that she'd use that role to give a high priority to providing more information to college students through an update of the Higher Education Act.
Foxx, the panel’s third-ranking Republican behind Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, is seeking to… Read more »
When ITT Tech announced last week that it was closing its doors, blaming aggressive regulations by the federal government, it was more evidence to many in the for-profit college sector that the Obama administration aims to regulate their sector out of existence.
Even if that claim is debatable, many observers with views across the ideological spectrum see the administration taking a… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted in favor of legislation that strengthens whistleblower protections, reforms the disability benefits appeals process at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and provides additional authority to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reprimand employees for performance or misconduct.
“As I travel North Carolina’s 5th District, I hear… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today praised House passage of legislation to strengthen career and technical education.
“For far too long, there has been a discrepancy in what students are learning in the classroom and what employers say they need in the workplace,” said Foxx, chair of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and a former community college president. “This… Read more »
For far too long, there has been a discrepancy in what students are learning in the classroom and what employers say they need in the workplace. The passage of the bipartisan Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act in 2014 was an important step for the millions of Americans who are looking for work and for the employers who have job opportunities that remain vacant due to the skills gap.… Read more »
Rep. Virginia Foxx, a blunt-talking conservative often at odds with the Obama administration, is vying to be the next chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, she told POLITICO.
Foxx, who served on the Republican Party’s platform steering committee, is widely assumed to be in line to take over the chairmanship if Republicans maintain control of the House.
In a… Read more »
