Congresswoman and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) and Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) introduced legislation Tuesday that would repeal President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Published: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 3:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. House Education Committee Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, is taking aim at the Biden Administration’s recently announced student loan forgiveness action, stating the executive branch is “trampling the rule of law.”
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2023 @ 3:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) will announce her plans to seek reelection in 2024 at the North Carolina Republican Party Convention in Greensboro (June 8-11, 2023).
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Assistant State Attorney Jason Poje, a 20-year veteran prosecutor in Chicago, torched George Soros-backed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx this month in his resignation letter and slammed the city’s “stupid” leaders who he said had set the city “on a course to disaster.”
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 10:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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C-SPAN has new rankings for the most-talkative members of the U.S. House, and one of North Carolina’s longest tenured representatives has made the top 10 list.
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 @ 11:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Jamie Foxx helps detain assailant fleeing offstage after the attack
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 3:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Foxx committed to winning 10th term, reclaiming U.S. House majority
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 7:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today Dr. Virginia Foxx, Congresswoman for North Carolina's 5th congressional district, endorsed Dr. Joan Perry for Congress in the NC-3 Special Election to fill the seat of the late Congressman Walter Jones.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 6:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tina Tchen, who was former First Lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff, has been in the news quite a bit lately, mostly for her role in getting charges dropped against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett.
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 10:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Kevin Graham, the president of the Chicago police union, sent a letter on March 15 to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting a federal investigation into Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, alleging that Foxx interfered in the police's investigation of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett.
Published: Monday, April 1st, 2019 @ 7:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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Tuesday morning, the Cook County State's Attorney's office announced that they'd dropped all 17 charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in an odd "plea deal," allowing Smollett to escape trial on accusations that he orchestrated a false hate crime against himself and lied to Chicago police in
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2019 @ 9:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. House of Representative on Friday, July 13, voted to close a loophole in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, which requires agencies to curtail the regulatory costs on local governments and businesses
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Charlotte mayor and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx today endorsed Hillary Clinton in Iowa.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 10:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We're not big fans of The Politico around here. In fact, we affectionately refer to it in-house as The PoS-tico.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 @ 8:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Walter Jones's primary foes are working hard to paint him as a liberal and a "Pelosi Republican."
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 4:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Each year, you have all kinds of groups ranking members of Congress according to their voting records. The Club For Growth, for instance, champions the concepts of limited government and fiscal conservatism.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The John Locke Foundation's 25th anniversary attracted national attention this month when U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, read a statement on the U.S. House floor celebrating the milestone.
Published: Thursday, February 12th, 2015 @ 6:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A day after President Obama unexpectedly unveiled a plan offering more than $34 billion in subsidies for community college tuition to millions of Americans, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, chastened the president for his "bad habit" of creating programs without funding mechanisms.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pretty much as soon as the polls closed on Election Day 2014, the political prognosticators began laying bets on what will happen by Election Day 2016. At the national level, attention quickly focused on the seemingly endless parade of Republicans seeking to take on Hillary Clinton.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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US Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-5) is making use of the cromnibus talking points disseminated by Boehner & co.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 @ 8:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ever wonder why so few elected officials question the actions of their party leaders or the actions of their respective chambers? Ever wonder why politicians spend SO MUCH time fundraising?
Published: Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 @ 11:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There’s a great piece over at Forbes talking about how The White House is considering expanding the subsidies in ObamaCare to include not just the uninsured but ALSO UNION MEMBERS.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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NCGOP HQ and McClatchy spent the day trumpeting the hiring of Todd Poole as the state party's new executive director. I would be willing to bet that a lot of Republicans in Davidson County are not cheering the news.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 9:28 am
By: Brant Clifton
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one of the Tea Party's vanguards - has released its latest scorecards evaluating lawmakers on how they vote in terms of the limited government agenda. Lawmakers were assigned percentage-based scores ranging from 1(liberal) to 100 (perfect conservative).
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 5:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Big Barry has nominated two guys -- who happen to be liberal black Democrats, like himself -- from North Carolina for important jobs in Washington.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Charlotte Mayor Redd Foxx is movin' on up -- just like The Jeffersons and The Clampetts.
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Jay Parmley, the former executive director of the NC Democratic Party who helped bring discussions of mano y mano 'crotch-punching' to the state's local papers and newscasts, is getting an up-close-and-personal look at the economic situation he and his allies helped create.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 10:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The astonishing transformation of people’s religious beliefs in the United States has happened so suddenly that most of us are in a state of shock.
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2012 @ 8:18 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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Within hours of the June 28 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court affirming that the federal Affordable Care Act is constitutional, Republicans in Congress launched an attempt to get rid of the health care legislation.
Published: Sunday, July 8th, 2012 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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