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"Reforms in this legislation put stronger protections in place to ensure SNAP money is reserved just for those Americans who qualify for food stamps and isn’t wasted on government public relations campaigns or lottery winners. Additionally, consistent with the bipartisan belief that the solution to poverty is found through work, and not just aid, the Nutrition Reform & Work Opportunity Act reinstates Clinton-era SNAP work requirements." Read more »

The Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act hit the House floor for a vote today under a sharply worded veto threat from the White House Read more »

President Docking Testified College’s Success to Congressional Committee WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Improving Access and Affordability through Innovative Partnerships.” “America is home to the greatest higher education system in the… Read more »

Constitution Day may have just passed, but we read an article this morning highlighting the role North Carolinians played at the Constitutional Convention. In fact, our state's three delegates to the convention all signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787 and are all included in the famous convention portrait that now hangs inside the United States Capitol. A copy of the painting… Read more »

National Skills Coalition recently released a side-by-side comparison of occupational training and adult education and family literacy provisions in current law to legislation in the House and Senate to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Read more »

Indiana higher education official Ken Sauer testified before a House subcommittee in Washington on Wednesday about the importance of college transfer credits for servicemen and women and the need for more information on credit recommendations. Read more »

Today Congresswoman Foxx led a Higher Education Subcommittee hearing entitled "Improving Access and Affordability through Innovative Partnerships." Members of the Higher Education and Workforce subcommittee heard testimony about some of the ways post-secondary education institutions are meeting the needs of their changing student bodies through forming partnerships with private sector… Read more »

“Extending fairness for all by giving American families the same break from ObamaCare that businesses are getting will save taxpayers and cut the Federal deficit”, says Rep. Foxx. Read more »

Today is the 226th anniversary of the adoption of our U.S. Constitution by the delegates to Philadelphia’s Constitutional Convention. Written on only four pages and divided into seven original articles, the delegates achieved arguably the most difficult step in any revolution: creating a framework to order and preserve the freedom they fought a revolution to win. Revolutions are stitched throughout the fabric of human history, but the miracle of the American Revolution is that 237 later, we are still self-governing – 224 years of those upon the foundation of our original United States Constitution, the world’s longest surviving written charter of government. Read more »

UNC’s Rhinehardt Supports Servicemembers and Veterans before Congress   The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing Wednesday to examine the steps higher education institutions are taking to better support servicemembers and veterans who are working to earn a postsecondary degree or obtain valuable job training… Read more »