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Iredell County’s two U.S. House of Representatives members joined most of their fellow Republicans in voting for a short-term spending plan that includes the complete defunding of the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as Obamacare. Read more »

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today issued this statement upon the House of Representatives’ passage of a Continuing Resolution (H.J. Res 59) to fund the government: Read more »

Adrian President Docking Tells House Committee How Independent Colleges are Innovating NAICU Washington Update September 20, 2013 Innovations at independent colleges were front and center as the House Committee on Education and the Workforce continued its busy hearing schedule on September 18, with a look at the transformations going on within higher education, with a particular… Read more »

An unchecked SNAP program that wastes its limited resources on publicity campaigns or subsidizing those who do not qualify is unable to provide the best service to the people it is designed to help. It is the job of this Congress to ensure the program is held accountable as a steward of taxpayer dollars and as a safety net of last resort for the needy. Read more »

"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 »