By Mike Barnhardt - Virginia Foxx was glad to be in Davie County on Monday.
As the Fifth District’s newest member of Congress, she had just spent her first few days in Washington. There were orientation sessions which mostly gave “doom and gloom” foreca
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By Mike Barnhardt - Virginia Foxx was glad to be in DavieCounty
on Monday.
As the Fifth District’s newest member of Congress, she had just spent her first
few days in Washington.
There were orientation sessions which mostly gave “doom and gloom” forecasts of
what to expect.
And there was the matter of getting around the highly-secured city of Washington, D.C., and the even tighter security in the CanonOfficeBuilding where she is in
Office 503.
Yet, she remained optimistic as she traveled across the district Monday,
learning what the people want and need.
“It’s going to be a challenge to get things done, but we’re part of the
greatest government in the world, in the greatest country of the world ... and
we have an opportunity to make it better. That’s humbling,” she said.
Foxx saw on the first day the partisan ways of the U.S. House and Senate. She’s
been appointed to the agriculture, government reform and education reform
committees.
To Wayne Webb, she should do something about the cost of health care.
A business owner who has provided health care coverage at no cost to his
employees, Webb has seen the costs escalate to where that’s not possible.
“Every year we’re getting beat down with increases and there’s no way to fight
it,” Webb said. “We need help ... with the insurance companies or with tax
credits.”
Webb said he won’t hire anyone who can’t pass a test for use of illegal drugs.
That’s not easy,
because about 70 percent of those applying for a job at his business can’t ...
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