The State Board of Elections on Monday unanimously set the calendar for a new election in the 9th Congressional District as follows.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 7:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The filing period for candidates running in the special election in North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District begins Monday, March 4 and ends Friday, March 8.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) released the following statement regarding the launch of U.S. airstrikes in Syria.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 8:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tonight at the National Citizen Leadership Conference (NCLC), Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) will be presented the 1st Annual Congressional Leadership Award by American Promise, the nation's leading advocacy group for overturning Citizens United v. FEC.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 @ 9:34 am
By: Russell Allen
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This week Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) was presented with the Guardian of Small Business award
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2016 @ 1:31 pm
By: Russell Allen
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted for H.R. 4676, the Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act, which would make it illegal for pension poachers to take advantage of a legal loophole that allows them to avoid criminal charges.
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2016 @ 4:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, Congressman Jones (NC-3) urged U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to apply robust scrutiny to communist Chinese bids to take over American defense manufacturers.
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 8:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week the Vietnam Veterans of America thanked Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) for cosponsoring H.R. 1769 - the Toxic Exposure Research Act.
Published: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 11:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones called on House Armed Services Committee (HASC) leadership to convene an oversight hearing before April on the waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money in Afghanistan.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 10:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) commented on a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) which estimates that the federal deficit will climb to $544 billion this year, up $105 billion over last year’s deficit.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 6:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) has signed onto a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Interior, asking for all correspondence relating to federal lands that were considered, analyzed, or designated as national monuments since January 20, 2009.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This morning, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against the $1.1 trillion, 2,009-page omnibus spending bill that does nothing substantive to curb the thousands of Middle Eastern refugees entering the United States.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 12:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) issued this statement on the passing of Dorothy 'Dot' Helms
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) made a statement about voting no on the budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 3762
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 3:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, Congressman Jones received the Defender of the American Economy Award from the U.S. Business and Industry Council for opposing Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), popularly known as Obamatrade.
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 12:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against legislation – H.R. 702 – that would revoke the 40-year old law that prohibits the export of U.S. oil to foreign countries like China, Russia, and much of the Middle East.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 5:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In response to today’s 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to block the Obama EPA’s controversial ‘Waters of the United States’ (WOTUS) regulation, Congressman Jones released the following statement
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones is calling on members running in the coming leadership elections to withdraw from the elections if they are guilty of misdeeds that, if made public, would be embarrassing to the Republican Conference and the House of Representatives
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 7:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is demanding answers regarding the Pentagon's policy of permitting homosexual Afghan men to rape young boys on U.S. military bases, and taking punitive action against U.S. service members who try to stop the rapists.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 4:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against H.R. 719 – a Senate-passed spending bill that would fund federal government operations through December 11th, 2015 at an annualized rate of $1.017 trillion.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 7:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) continued his long-standing fight against taxpayer-funded abortion by voting for H.R. 3495, the Women’s Public Health and Safety Act.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) joined his colleague Congressman Don Young of Alaska in cosponsoring H.R. 330, the Marine Access and State Transparency (MAST) Act.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 7:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) and Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-3) are again urging Speaker John Boehner to bring up an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for debate and vote.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 @ 6:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Friday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) became an original cosponsor of a resolution to begin impeachment proceedings against EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy for committing perjury.
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 @ 2:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, Congressman Walter B. Jones and several congressional colleagues joined forces to call on the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers to meet its statutory mandate to perform an assessment of the maintenance dredging needs along the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of legislation that would require congressional approval of federal rules that impose significant burdens on the American economy. H.R. 427.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 6:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) became an original cosponsor on H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, which would immediately prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds.
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 9:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) became a cosponsor of H.R. 3011, Kate’s Law, introduced by Congressman Matt Salmon (AZ-5).
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 11:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones released this statement on the resignation of Katherine Archuleta as director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Published: Sunday, July 12th, 2015 @ 5:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A celebrity member of the NCGOP establishment sent along to us this article from The Weekly Standard — edited by Bill Kristol, who invested heavily in the 2014 primary challenge against Walter Jones — expressing frustration with “missing an opportunity” to finally GET Walter Jones.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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On Tuesday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a 15-member panel created through Obamacare to cut Medicare payments.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 2:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It now goes back to the Senate for further action, which is expected next week.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2015 @ 6:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against legislation (H.R. 2393) that would repeal country of origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork, chicken, and ground meat and poultry products.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1335 – the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2015 @ 2:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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