Washington D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx introduced H.R. 5672, no-cost, bipartisan legislation to correct a technical limitation preventing the rollover of tax-deferred retirement funds into existing SIMPLE IRA accounts. Representative Foxx released the following statement after introducing the legislation:
“This legislation will simplify Americans’… Read more »
Washington D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) voted in favor of H.R. 4, the Jobs for America Act, which passed on a 253 to 163 bipartisan vote. Rep Foxx spoke on the House floor in support of the measure:
“Each year Washington imposes thousands of pages of rules and regulations on America’s private sector employers as well as state and local… Read more »
Washington D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) made the following remarks after President Obama’s speech about ISIL:
“ISIL is a vicious terrorist group that controls significant land and resources, has repeatedly called for the destruction of the United States and has publicly killed two U.S. citizens in the most brutal way imaginable. I am glad that the… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
