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The House of Representatives is carefully considering how to correct immigration policies so that America’s border is secured, our laws dutifully enforced, and the draw for illegal immigration removed. I encourage you to take a moment to read a column I wrote that outlines my priorities for strengthening immigration. The text is available here and an excerpt is included below. Read more »

Wednesday evening, bipartisan regulatory transparency legislation sponsored by Representatives Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike McIntyre (D-NC) and Collin Peterson (D-MN) successfully advanced from the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act, H.R. 899, will fix loopholes within the bipartisan regulatory reform act known as UMRA. Read more »

Foxx called the current regulations "ill-conceived" and urged the full House to act to repeal them so issues of affordability, accountability, and transparency can be carefully addressed during the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Read more »

That proposal – the Smarter Solutions for Students Act authored by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) – got tangled up in gridlock and division among Senate Democrats, who were so committed to extending the status quo that they left town and let interest rates on some loans double. “Republicans took political advantage of the fissure among Democrats” to secure a victory for students and their families with a final bill that one member of the Senate majority grudgingly admits is “almost identical to that passed by a … Republican-led House.” Read more »

Congresswoman Foxx on Student Success Act Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 9:32AM Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement upon the House of Representatives’ passage of H.R. 5, the Student Success Act which she cosponsored. The legislation reforms and reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: “North… Read more »

Rep. Foxx said, “Students and institutions stand to be unfairly burdened by the Obama administration’s ill-conceived program integrity regulations. The Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act will remove the barrier three of those regulations put in the way of schools working to innovate, grow, and meet the changing demands of an increasingly diverse American student body. I hope to see the House of Representatives act soon to remove these barriers as well so issues of affordability, accountability, and transparency can be carefully addressed during the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.” Read more »

Transparency and accountability are not partisan issues. Democrats and Republicans who worked together to pass UMRA in 1995 believed the American people would be served better if government issued regulations only when the cost of those regulations was fully understood. My colleagues and I still think that’s the case. And while UMRA is good, it needs to be strengthened. The Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act builds off of UMRA and goes even further to make sure government is held accountable for considering how prospective regulatory will impact small businesses and local governments. The legislation is purely about making government work better for the American people by requiring openness and honesty from Washington about the true cost of regulations, whether those costs come in dollars or in lost jobs. It is my hope the strong bipartisan support with which it was introduced will pave the way for its swift passage from the House of Representatives. Read more »

“These regulations are stifling pioneering institutions at a time when forward-thinking solutions are desperately needed,” Foxx said in a written statement. Read more »

At issue is the Supporting Academic Freedom Through Regulatory Relief Act (HR 2637), a bill introduced this month by Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina and Rep. John P. Kline Jr. of Minnesota, both Republicans, and Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, a Florida Democrat. Mr. Kline is chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Ms. Foxx is chair of its subcommittee on higher education. ... The bill takes aim at three controversial rules: the gainful-employment regulation, the state-authorization rule, and the regulations that define credit hours in connection with the awarding of federal student aid. Read more »

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Monday criticized President Obama's plan to focus on jobs and the economy over the next few weeks as a plan to give more speeches about jobs, but not to deregulate or take other steps that would help boost job creation. Read more »