WASHINGTON House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to two higher education regulations the administration finalized earlier today:
Today’s announcement continues the administration’s pattern of micromanaging higher… 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 »
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to reauthorize the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act (SOAR), which creates vouchers for a certain number of K-12 students in the District of Columbia. But what will happen after the House's passage of H.R. 10 is unclear.
The Opportunity Scholarship program is a political favorite of House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio,… Read more »
Congress, the Pentagon and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have been clamoring for years that increased competition is the most effective way to reduce wasteful defense spending. Yet the practice of awarding contracts on a sole source basis is pervasive throughout the Defense Department. In fact, about half of the $3 trillion the department expects to spend during… Read more »
There’s plenty of uncertainty about who will be leading the House — but not quite as much on where they’ll lead. One of the biggest priorities of the new speaker has already been decided, thanks in part to [Wednesday’s] vote to turn up the heat on Planned Parenthood. Now five investigations into the ghoulish organ harvesting business, members say the only thing they’re left with is more… Read more »
Nearly 20 leading Republicans are urging their colleagues to refrain from making any rash decisions after the surprise exit of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership race on Thursday.
In a letter sent to GOP lawmakers, the Republicans, including Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan, and Reps. Jeff Miller, Peter Roskam and Lynn Jenkins, said the conference needs to reevaluate its message and… Read more »
During her keynote address, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-Banner Elk, N.C., compared women to ants — the insect that can, improbably, lift 5,000 times its weight.
“Women, like ants, often take on tasks that seem impossible,” she said. “But these little tasks that seem impossible really make a difference.”
Hosted by U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, the Sixth District Women’s… Read more »
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives today passed a resolution introduced by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., that creates a special House panel to investigate abortion practices at providers such as Planned Parenthood and the sale of unborn children’s tissue.
“The creation of this panel ensures the House exercises one of its most fundamental constitutional responsibilities, oversight… Read more »
The House voted Wednesday to set up a special panel to probe whether Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are following the law when harvesting fetal tissue for research.
Buoyed by Republicans, the chamber voted 242-184 to set up a select committee that could shine a light on the controversial women’s health provider for months, after a conservative-led bid to strip its… Read more »
The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to create a special panel to investigate Planned Parenthood and its procurement of fetal tissue as the GOP continued pressing an issue that has galvanized conservatives since secret videos surfaced this summer.
The near party-line vote was 242-184, as Democrats dismissed the probe as a wasteful political exercise by the GOP. It was unclear if… Read more »
