Washington, D.C. – This week, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) made the following remarks on the floor of the House during debate about House Resolution 676, which authorizes a lawsuit by House of Representatives against President Obama. “I rise in support of this effort to restore every branch of this government to its proper constitutional bounds. This is not about politics. If there were a Republican President doing the same thing. I would feel just as strongly. This is about the Constitut...
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the House of Representatives agreed to final passage of H.R. 3230, the Veterans’ Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014: “It is critically important that we provide high-quality, timely care for those who have sacrificed so much in service to our country,” said Rep. Foxx. “There is more that must be done to reform the Veterans Administration, but this legislation is ...
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Strengthening Transparency in Higher Education Act: “Students and families must wade through massive and often conflicting amounts of information in order to make informed college decisions,” said Rep. Foxx. “The Higher Education Act (HEA) alone requires 26 different categories of information be available, and there are many additional state and federal requiremen...
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The House on Wednesday passed a bill by voice vote to streamline public data about institutions of higher education. The bill, H.R. 4983, would direct the Secretary of Education to create a "College Dashboard" website to display data from colleges' most recent academic year. The information would include the number of enrolled students, student-faculty ratio, percentage of undergraduates who received their degree or certificates, average price for students receiving financial aid, the percentage...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, President Obama signed into law H.R. 803, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), legislation authored by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx providing for a long overdue reform of the Workforce Investment Act. WIOA represents a compromise between Congresswoman Foxx’s SKILLS Act (H.R. 803) and S. 1356, the Workforce Investment Act of 2013. “President Obama’s signing of the bipartisan Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act demonstrates the good that can be done whe...
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Federal job training programs will see their biggest overhaul in 16 years after President Obama put his signature Tuesday on a law intended to streamline a tangled web of programs. It's the first major rewrite of federal job training programs since Congress passed the Workforce Development Act in 1998 — when Netscape was the Web browser of choice, résumés were on paper and largely sent in the mail and newspaper want ads were the primary way of learning of job openings. "Even back then, even in 1...
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Washington, D.C. – R.J. Reynolds High School teacher Michael T. McCulloch has completed Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s week-long Teacher in Congress Internship. Congresswoman Foxx hopes the experience will help him encourage each of his students to become active participants in their government. In remarks delivered on the House floor, Congresswoman Foxx spoke highly of Mr. McCulloch: “I commend Mr. McCulloch for his commitment to teaching the next generation about the revolutionary ideas on whi...
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Federal legislation to streamline job training and make it more relevant to employers’ needs – a bill with some “made in North Carolina” elements – is headed to President Barack Obama’s desk. U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican from Banner Elk who chairs the House committee education and its subcommittee on higher ed and workforce training, was one of the authors of the legislation. It also includes parts of the AMERICA Works Act, which was introduced by U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat from Gr...
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Republicans and Democrats in Congress say they got something done: A bill with overwhelming support in the House and Senate, which will streamline and improve workforce training, on Friday was on its way to the president's desk for his signature. U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, was one of the authors of the legislation. It also includes parts of the AMERICA Works Act, ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Legislation to update the Workforce Investment Act, overdue for reauthorization for more than a decade, is headed to the President’s desk following overwhelming bipartisan support from both houses of Congress. H.R. 803 the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) represents a compromise between Congresswoman Foxx’s SKILLS Act (H.R. 803), which passed the House of Representatives in March of 2013 with bipartisan support, and the Workforce Investment Act of 2013 (S. 1356),...
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