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The House Education and the Workforce Committee on Thursday approved the Smarter Solutions for Students Act (H.R. 1911). Introduced by John Kline (R-MN) and Virginia Foxx (R-NC), this bill would tie both subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford student loan rates to the 10-year Treasury note, plus 2.5 percent, and end the rate differentiation between the two types of loans. It would also tie PLUS loans for parents and graduate students to the 10-year Treasury note, plus 4.5 percent. (See the table below for what students and their families would pay under these proposals.) Read more »

"To steal a line from Rep. Virginia Foxx, the gentlewoman from North Carolina: This is our shocked face." Read more »

"Student borrowers shouldn't have to ride the roller coaster of political largesse wondering every year whether Congress will intervene in time to adjust their rates," Foxx said. Read more »

“ObamaCare’s proponents promised it would lower health care costs, expand insurance coverage, and certainly not raise taxes. But even prior to its full implementation, President Obama’s health care overhaul has proved a hindrance, not a help, to health care access and economic recovery." Read more »

ObamaCare hinges on twenty-one tax increases, many of which hit the middle class, and goes so far as to empower the IRS as its primary enforcer. That is a problem. Read more »

“[I]n our justice system premeditating and exacting the demise of babies is only a crime if a child is fully outside the womb,” stated Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC). “We would do well as a society to consider what deciding murder based upon geographic technicalities reveals about our collective conscious.” Read more »

“Washington has a spending problem. Every time the federal government approaches its debt limit, like clockwork, big spending politicians – from the White House down – begin threatening ‘default’ unless the government is able to continue with its spending binge. Such gamesmanship is a disservice to everyone." Read more »

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement upon the passage of the Full Faith & Credit Act (H.R. 807), which Foxx cosponsored, from the House of Representatives. Read more »

We should all ponder that while multiple murder charges against Kermit Gosnell were up for debate, no one ever questioned whether Gosnell's intent was to kill each of his infant victims. Of course their death was his intent – such is the case wi Read more »

Kline introduced his bill with subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.). Just last week, GOP leaders said Kline would soon introduce a bill, and Congress would consider it shortly as a way to fix the problem. Read more »