{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "where state = \"NC\" and year = 2012 sorted by date descending", "rows": [["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338446", "Redistricting Information for Surry, Stokes, and Rockingham counties", "2012-12-28", "2012", "2012-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Due to congressional redistricting, beginning January 3rd, the counties of Surry, Stokes, and Rockingham will no longer fall within the boundaries of North Carolina\u2019s 5th Congressional District that is represented by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx. Foxx, who has represented Surry, Stokes, and Rockingham since 2005, today released the following statement and accompanying audio clip for residents regarding the change:\n\n\u201cIt is an honor to represent the people of North Carolina\u2019s 5th District in the United States House of Representatives.\n\n\u201cBut due to redistricting, the 5th District I serve will no longer include the counties of Surry, Stokes, and Rockingham. Beginning January 3rd, residents of those counties may contact their new Representative, Howard Coble, for assistance with any federal matters.\n\n\u201cEven though the boundaries of the District have changed, you are welcome to stay in touch by signing up for my newsletter at www.foxx.house.gov.\n\n\u201cThank you, it has truly been a pleasure serving as your Representative.\u201d\n\nRadio stations are welcome to use all or portions of the accompanying audio clip.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:51Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338445", "Foxx, GOP Will Not Gamble with the U.S. Economy, Jobs", "2012-12-20", "2012", "2012-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "House Votes Again to Resolve Fiscal Cliff, Put an End to the President\u2019s Politics of Class Warfare\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) tonight issued the following statement upon the passage of the Permanent Tax Relief for Families and Small Businesses Act of 2012(H.J.Res. 66) from the House of Representatives:\n\n\u201cThe House of Representatives cast another vote this evening to resolve the fiscal cliff and spare families and small businesses from job-killing tax increases. House Joint Resolution 66 permanently protects millions of American taxpayers from tax increases demanded by the President and Congressional Democrats.\n\n\u201cSince May, House Republicans have acted in good faith to generate ideas to avert the fiscal cliff. Our balanced proposals have been designed to protect American jobs while the President\u2019s counter-offers have not, consisting of endless stimulus spending and tax increases to stoke the flames of class warfare.\n\n\u201cThe President has indicated that if his tax demands are not satisfied, he will allow the country to endure the greatest tax increase in our nation\u2019s history.\n\n\u201cThe President might be comfortable playing political games while taxes increase on every American, but Republicans are not. Families and job creators cannot afford such a hit. They need certainty to plan for the future which is what Republicans are working to deliver with the Permanent Tax Relief for Families and Small Businesses Act.\n\n\u201cAdmittedly, this legislation is not a perfect solution, but rather the latest Republican effort to protect jobs and American taxpayers to the greatest extent possible from the insatiable tax appetite of the President and Democrat Senate.\n\n\u201cRather than fixating on a sliver of the Clinton-era tax rates, the President would better serve the country working to shrink the federal government to a Clinton-era size. America\u2019s catastrophic national debt demands it. It\u2019s time for the President to get off his post-election laurels and govern.\u201d\n\nInstead of kicking the tax can down the road with short-term patches, H.J.Res. 66 permanently protects 99.81% of the American people from a $3.91 trillion tax hike scheduled to take effect this January. Included in H.J.Res. 66 are the following permanent tax reductions for families and small businesses:\n\n$1.9 trillion: Permanently stopping the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) from hitting more middle class families;\n\n$875.7 billion: Permanent extension of current income tax rates for everyone making less than $1 million;\n\n$388.2 billion: Permanent death tax relief;\n\n$282.5 billion: Permanent extension of capital gains and dividend tax rates for everyone with less than $1 million in income;\n\n$220.1 billion: Permanent extension of the $1,000 child tax credit;\n\n$162.7 billion: Permanent repeal of personal exemption phase-out (PEP) and Pease limitation;\n\n$59.5 billion: Permanent marriage penalty relief;\n\n$28.8 billion: Permanent extension of education and other family tax relief; and\n\n$45.7 billion: Permanent extension of section 179 expensing for small businesses.\n\nIn addition to H.J.Res. 66, this evening the House of Representatives reaffirmed its support for comprehensive, strategic spending cuts to stop defense sequestration by passing H.R. 6684, theSpending Reduction Act of 2012. President Obama promised the sequester would not take effect, but has presented no alternatives to avert its trigger.\n\nFrom May to December, Foxx cast seven separate votes on H.Con.Res. 112, H.J.Res. 66, H.R. 8, H.R. 9, H.R. 6684, H.R. 6365, and H.R. 5652to either avert the fiscal cliff or stop the defense sequester.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:51Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338444", "Foxx, House GOP Say Fiscal Cliff Solutions Should Protect Americas Future", "2012-12-13", "2012", "2012-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "House Republicans Highlight the Effects of the Fiscal Cliff on America\u2019s Families\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), GOP Conference Secretary, and members of the House Republican Conference were joined Wednesday by students and children at the capitol to address the immediate need to solve America\u2019s debt crisis in order to spare future generations the consequences of today\u2019s unsustainable spending. Fiscal cliff negotiations should be about people, not politics. House Republicans drew on their experience as parents and grandparents to make the case for resolving the spending-driven debt crisis for the sake of America\u2019s young people.\n\nVideo, photos, and text from the event are below:\n\nVideo Remarks: Congresswoman Virginia Foxx.\n\nText Excerpts: Congresswoman Virginia Foxx.\n\n\u201cDebt problems of a 16.2 trillion dollar proportion don\u2019t get solved without real savings. And while the President\u2019s offers have plenty of Washington budget gimmicks, real savings are disappointingly absent. That concerns me.\n\n\u201cMy grandkids are just starting to think about college and what they might want to be when they\u2019re older.\n\n\u201cI worry for them because a country saddled with debt is not a country where job growth abounds. A country that spends 1 trillion dollars more than it takes in every year is not a country that\u2019s going to make it easier for young people to find jobs to support themselves, move out of their parents\u2019 home, and pay for their college investments.\n\n\u201cI want more for my grandchildren than a shaky job market and mountains of debt they didn\u2019t incur. I want to leave them a country as strong and prosperous as the one I grew up in.\n\n\u201cSo I can\u2019t, in good conscience, support any so-called solution that leaves the real work of controlling spending for another day. That\u2019s not what parents and grandparents do. We fix problems. We don\u2019t back away from them.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cDebt is no more \u201cpatriotic\u201d today than when the President first ran in 2008.\n\n\u201cThe debt problem we face may not be entirely of our own making, but every day we don\u2019t control spending the problem gets worse for our children and grandchildren. Somebody has to deal with it. It should be us.\u201d\n\nVideo Remarks: Protecting America\u2019s Future News Conference in its entirety.\n\nPhotos: Images from the news conference are available here.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:51Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338443", "Foxx Statement on November Jobless Report", "2012-12-07", "2012", "2012-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Congresswoman and GOP Conference Secretary Virginia Foxx, R-NC, issued the following statement on today's jobless report:\n\n\u201cMillions of Americans are still struggling to find work to provide for their families in this uncertain job market.\n\n\u201cUnemployment figures alone don\u2019t accurately reflect the fragile state of our economy. 7.7 percent unemployment suggests progress that the more than 540,000 Americans who gave up looking for work last month would dispute.\n\n\u201cThe fiscal cliff is approaching. As we work to avert it, Congress must be resolved to protect jobs, not place more in jeopardy by taxing small businesses and wasting money on ineffective government stimulus.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:51Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338442", "Budget Advice from the Feds?", "2012-12-06", "2012", "2012-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "- By Congresswoman Virginia Foxx\n\nThe federal government\u2019s Financial Protection Bureau is instructing Americans to avoid debt this holiday season by setting a budget and sticking to it. Great advice. Also hilarious given the source.\n\nNo one can take issue with the substance of the advice published by the taxpayer-funded Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. However, I do wish the federal government was aware of its own hypocrisy in playing budget sage. Washington is hardly the place from which hardworking citizens should be seeking budget advice.\n\nFor three and a half years, Washington has operated without a budget to map out how it spends your money. This is not for lack of trying on the part of Republicans in the House of Representatives. Every year, we crunched numbers and subjected ourselves to criticism by taking tough stands on spending priorities. But every budget we passed during this 1300-day span stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate, even though that chamber has not once presented a spending proposal of its own. Furthermore, President Obama\u2019s budget, which would entrench Washington\u2019s unsustainable habits of overspending while ignoring costly entitlement reforms, has not found a single vote of support in either house.\n\nWith neither strong financial leadership from the Executive, nor a roadmap for fiscal solvency guiding the ship of state, Washington has unsurprisingly just capped its fourth consecutive fiscal year of spending $1,000,000,000,000 more than it takes in. And the sobering fact in all of this is that while government spending has only increased, tax revenue today is roughly equal to what it was in 2006.\n\nThe rapid rise in national debt, stemming from wasteful \u201cstimulus\u201d expenditures, bank bailouts, and rapidly growing entitlement bills (read more on that in my short column Defending Medicare for Future Generations), has brought us to where we are today \u2013 staring down a steep fiscal cliff of Washington\u2019s own making.\n\nSo what do we take from the Financial Protection Bureau\u2019s advice to create a holiday spending plan, keep track of what you spend, avoid impulse purchases, and keep those troublesome credit cards at home? Simply this: do as Washington says, not as it does.\n\nThere is certainly no end to the irony in Washington.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:51Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338441", "A Day Set Apart for Thanksgiving", "2012-11-21", "2012", "2012-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "May you and your family enjoy a safe and happy Thanksgiving.\n\nAs we celebrate this definitive American holiday and all the blessings we lay claim to as citizens of our great country and state, let's not forget to show our appreciation for the men and women who are standing watch. While we sit down to dinner with our families, thousands of our troops will be separated from theirs, deployed throughout the world for our protection. At home, many others will be patrolling our streets and responding to emergencies all to ensure our domestic security. These people don't hear thank you enough, so if given the chance, let's tell them.\n\nAmerica is a free land and our people are as devoted as ever to the principles of liberty and justice for all. For the richness of our heritage and for the men and women among us willing to give of themselves to secure a prosperous future for our nation, we thank Almighty God.\n\nHappy Thanksgiving,", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:46Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338440", "Foxx Still Accepting Ticket Requests for 2013 Presidential Inauguration", "2012-11-20", "2012", "2012-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Deadline to request tickets is December 7th\n\nFor more than two hundred years America\u2019s citizens have participated in the Inauguration ceremonies for the President and Vice President of the United States\u2014from the first Inauguration of George Washington in 1789 to today, as Washington, D.C. prepares for the 57th quadrennial Presidential Inauguration. The Presidential swearing-in ceremony is a distinctive celebration of America's strong tradition of democracy and the peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTickets to the 57th Inaugural Ceremony are provided free of charge and are distributed through the offices of Members of Congress. Residents of the Fifth Congressional District interested in attending the event on January 21st should contact Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to request preferred tickets. Foxx's office is accepting ticket requests through December 7th, although tickets are not required to attend.\n\nRequests for up to four tickets per household may be submitted through December 7, 2012 at Congresswoman Foxx\u2019s website, www.foxx.house.gov/inauguration-day.\n\nEach Congressional office receives a limited number of tickets to distribute to constituents. Due to the high volume of requests, tickets will be dispersed via lottery. For those drawn, tickets must be picked-up in person at Congresswoman Foxx\u2019s Washington, D.C. office the weekend before the inauguration.\n\nFifth District constituents should be aware that no website or ticket outlet advertising the sale of inaugural swearing-in tickets is authentic. Tickets are free and are only available through members of Congress.\n\nTo get more information about Inauguration Day, please visit www.foxx.house.gov/inauguration-day.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:46Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338438", "America Should Continue to Stand with Israel", "2012-11-16", "2012", "2012-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Virginia Foxx today issued the following statement in regard to the escalation of terrorist violence in Israel:\n\n\u201cThe nation of Israel is America\u2019s friend and closest ally in the Middle East. Already this year, Hamas has attacked the Israeli statewith a violent barrage of more than 900 rockets and missiles, most heavily in the past few days.\n\n\u201cAfter initiating an attack yesterday that claimed the lives of three civilians, including a pregnant woman, Hamas today targeted Israel\u2019s capital city, Jerusalem.\n\n\u201cWhen confronted with radical terrorism, Israel is absolutely justified in taking defensive action to protect its citizens. The United States would certainly do no less, and should continue to stand withIsrael while we pray for a peaceful end to the violence and destruction plaguing their land.\u201d\n\nToday, the House of Representatives considered and passed with Foxx\u2019s support House Resolution 813 \u2013 \u201cExpressing vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security, and survival of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state with secure borders, and recognizing and strongly supporting its right to act in self-defense to protect its citizens against acts of terrorism.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:46Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338439", "Foxx: House Republicans are \"Solution-Driven\"", "2012-11-16", "2012", "2012-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Congresswoman Foxx delivered the following remarks during the news conference introducing House Republican Leadership for the 113th Congress. Foxx was elected by her peers in the House to serve in the capacity of Conference Secretary:\n\n\"You have heard people over and over use the words \"team,\" \"working together,\" and \"solutions.\" Those are going to be our mantra.\n\n\"We do want to help the American people get back on their feet through creating jobs and we will work together to do that. We are solution?driven, and that is the direction we will be going.\"\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:46Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338437", "Foxx Elected GOP Conference Secretary for 113th Congress", "2012-11-14", "2012", "2012-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Congresswoman Virginia Foxx issued the following statement today after being elected Secretary of the House Republican Conference for the 113th Congress. Secretary is one of eight elected leadership positions within the GOP Conference:\n\n\u201cI am humbled by the support of my colleagues and am eager to begin working with them as Conference Secretary to advance substantive policy solutions that will get our country back on a path to prosperity.\n\n\u201cThe House Republican Conference, at its best, functions as a vehicle in Congress to accomplish good for our nation. Conference works alongside its members to refine policy, foster dialogue, and encourage stellar constituent service back home. And a strong Conference can generate and galvanize support behind principled policy ideas that are equal to the task of solving our nation\u2019s challenges and getting Americans back to work. It is an honor to be able to serve as Secretary to accomplish those ends.\u201d\n\nFoxx made the decision to run after being encouraged to consider the position by outgoing Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (TX), and Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (WI). Representative Tom McClintock (CA) nominated Foxx for Secretary. His motion was seconded by Representative Rob Woodall (GA) and Representative Scott Garrett (NJ).\n\nFoxx\u2019s term as Conference Secretary will last for the duration of the 113th Congress.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:46Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338436", "This nation will remain the land of the free...", "2012-11-11", "2012", "2012-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "\"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.\"\n\nOn this Veterans Day, the thanks of a grateful nation is with all of America's uniformed servicemembers, past and present, and with their families.\n\nA famous William Harvard quote reads, \u201cThe greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.\u201d He is right. And the freedom of which he speaks is only possible because of the brave men and women throughout our history who have answered our country's call to serve in her defense.\n\nToday is all about those men and women - the ones who have volunteered to give their all, if that is what is asked of them, for our country. They comprise our Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy. And they are supported by families who carry their burden of service with them.\n\nThe American people are unmatched in their willingness to sacrifice for the freedom of others. Ours is the first nation in the history of the world that goes to war only to defend and to liberate\u2014never to conquer. In our campaigns, we seek to build dignity, and we seek to build friendship \u2013 for lasting peace, and for the furtherance of freedom.\n\nFor those who've taken oaths to leave the comfort of home and the embrace of family to partake in that dangerous but noble work, we are truly indebted.\n\nToday we honor them and reflect upon the magnitude of what they have given. May we come to give half as much.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:46Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338435", "The Presidents Policies are Wrong for the Economy", "2012-11-02", "2012", "2012-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to today's jobless report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:\n\n\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s go-to policies are wrong for this economy and our country as today\u2019s jobless report confirms.\n\n\u201cNearly twenty-three million un or underemployed Americans are struggling to provide for their families under the weight of higher gas prices, more expensive groceries, and rising debt. They cannot wait for the President to keep stalling recovery with his misguided policies.\n\n\u201cFor the first two years of his term, President Obama was unchallenged in enacting his ideological agenda \u2013 one that was short on job creation and heavy on big government spending in the form of Stimulus and Obamacare. But his preferred policies have not worked. They have fallen short of their own promises and paved the way for this, the longest, slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.\n\n\u201cThe President\u2019s partisan ideas have been tried and they have failed. The severity of our economic challenges demand something better than politics-as-usual from the White House. The House of Representatives\u2019 thirty-plus bipartisan job creation bills are a good place for the President to start.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:46Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338434", "Medicare Open Enrollment", "2012-10-18", "2012", "2012-10", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Dear Friends,\n\nI would like to share some important information regarding Medicare with you and with any seniors that you know.\n\nLike last year, the 2012 open-enrollment period for Medicare started and will end a little earlier than it has in prior years: October 15th through December 7th. This is the only time during the year, except in unique circumstances, whencurrent Medicare enrollees are able to make changes to their existing coverage.\n\nChanges Medicare members may consider making during this period include:\n\nChanging to or from a Medicare Advantage Plan, or selecting another Medicare plan that better meets your needs; and\n\nJoining a Medicare prescription drug plan, or switching from one prescription drug plan to another.\n\nFor assistance in weighing insurance options, seniors, family members, and caregivers are welcome to contact Medicare by calling 1-800-MEDICARE (633-4227) or visiting Medicare\u2019s website www.medicare.gov. At this online portal you will find enrollment instructions, detailed explanations of the various Medicare coverage plans, resources to learn about the health providers in your area that collaborate with Medicare, and the various medical treatments andservices covered by Medicare plans.\n\nIf you are having problems contacting Medicare or are experiencing difficulties working with Medicare on your current coverage, please contact James in my Clemmons, North Carolina office at 1-866-677-8968. We\u2019re happy to help. And as always, you can keep up with the latest news and track the work I\u2019m doing on your behalf to hold government accountable and get Americans back to work by visiting my website www.foxx.house.gov.\n\nAs this information is time sensitive, please consider sharing it with the senior citizens you know.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:43Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338433", "ICYMI: Foxx Honored as \"Guardian of Small Business\"", "2012-09-27", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "ICYMI: VIRGINIA FOXX HONORED AS \u201cGUARDIAN OF SMALL BUSINESS\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) was recognized by the National Federation of Independent Business as a \u201cGuardian of Small Business\u201d for her strong voting record in support of lower taxes and stopping harmful regulation.\n\nCongresswoman Foxx Receives the NFIB Guardian Award from the Federation\u2019s President and CEO Dan Danner.\n\n\u201cOur government needs to be working to make it easier for small businesses to grow and create jobs if we are going to experience a real and robust economic recovery,\u201d Congresswoman Foxx stated. \u201cMy husband and I started our own North Carolina small business many years ago and I vote with that perspective in mind. Entrepreneurs should not have to face senseless taxes and regulatory uncertainty on top of the slew of challenges they already confront each day.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe record shows that Rep. Foxx is a true champion of small business, having stood strong on the key small-business votes in the 112th Congress,\u201d said NFIB President and CEO Dan Danner. \u201cThis award reflects our members\u2019 appreciation for supporting the NFIB pro-growth agenda for small business.\u201d\n\nA copy of the NFIB official news release is below:\n\nU.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx Honored as Guardian of Small Business by NFIB\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation\u2019s leading small business association, today names U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC-5) a Guardian of Small Business for her outstanding voting record on behalf of America\u2019s small-business owners in the 112th Congress\n\nNFIB President and CEO Dan Danner praised Rep. Foxx for \u201cstanding for small business.\u201d In presenting the group\u2019s coveted Guardian of Small Business Award, Danner said, \u201cSmall-business owners pay close attention to how their lawmakers vote on the issues affecting their businesses and employees and stand by those who stand for them.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe record shows that Rep. Foxx is a true champion of small business, having stood strong on the key small-business votes in the 112th Congress,\u201d said Danner. \u201cThis award reflects our members\u2019 appreciation for supporting the NFIB pro-growth agenda for small business.\u201d\u2026\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338432", "Mocksville Boy Scout Pursues \"Citizenship\" Badge with Foxxs Help", "2012-09-25", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Mocksville Boy Scout Pursues \u201cCitizenship in the Nation\u201d Badge with Help from Rep. Foxx\n\nMocksville Boy Scout John Woodard III traveled to Washington, D.C. with his parents John Sr. and Joan to visit Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) at the United States Capitol and earn his Boy Scout \u201cCitizenship in the Nation\u201d merit badge.\n\nRepresentative Virginia Foxx, John Woodard Sr., Joan Woodard, Boy Scout John Woodard III, and House Speaker John Boehner (Photo Attached, High Resolution Available Upon Request)\n\n\u201cI am very proud of John and the initiative he showed in coming to our nation\u2019s capitol to see our republic at work,\u201d Representative Foxx stated. \u201cIt takes a tremendous amount of commitment to become an Eagle Scout, and I have no doubt that John possesses the discipline and determination needed to reach the Scouts\u2019 highest rank.\u201d\n\n\u201cThank you to Representative Foxx for being so kind,\u201d John added. \u201cI appreciate this wonderful opportunity and learned so much.\u201d\n\nJohn accompanied Representative Foxx on the floor of the House of Representatives for legislative debate and official votes. Representative Foxx also arranged a meeting for John and his parents with House Speaker John Boehner, who took a photo with the family and signed a memento for John.\n\nThe \u201cCitizenship in the Nation\u201d merit badge is one of 21 that must be earned for a Scout to achieve the rank of Eagle. Eleven-year-old John hopes to earn his Eagle pin before he reaches high school.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338431", "Stop the War on Coal, Mining Jobs", "2012-09-21", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Foxx Votes to Protect North Carolina Mines and Miners from Government Overreach\n\nRepresentative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today voted to help end the Obama Administration\u2019s war on coal and support North Carolina\u2019s energy and mining industry from oppressive government regulations. The Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act (H.R. 3409) passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 233 \u2013175.\n\n\u201cThe President\u2019s war on coal is a threat to thousands of American jobs, many in my home state of North Carolina,\u201d Congresswoman Foxx stated. \u201cThe regulatory assaults propagated by this Administration will only help to make high energy costs rise higher.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act provides some necessary accountability to the President\u2019s regulators and will keep them from unilaterally crippling the domestic coal industry.\u201d\n\n\u201cAmerica wants energy security. The Keystone Pipeline, coal, and coal-fired plants play a role in getting the country to that point. The President and his regulators should be less invested in subsidizing coal projects in China and more involved in supporting American mines and the jobs they provide.\u201d\n\nH.R. 3409 is comprised of a series of bills that aim to stop the unaccountable EPA from imposing a liberal cap-and-tax agenda on the American people through the auspices of the Clean Air Act.\n\nSpecifically, the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act will prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing regulations under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act that will:\n\nAdversely impact U.S. coal mining employment;\n\nCause a reduction in coal revenue to governments through regulation of coal mining;\n\nReduce the amount of coal available for domestic consumption or export;\n\nDesignate any area as unsuitable for surface coal mining and reclamation operations; or\n\nExpose the U.S. to liability for taking the value of privately owned coal through regulation.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338430", "Foxx, House Vote to Keep Bipartisan Welfare Reform Strong", "2012-09-20", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Congresswoman Virginia Foxx today praised the successful passage of House Joint Resolution 118 from the House of Representatives. The legislation will prevent President Obama from unilaterally imposing an alternative policy to the successful bipartisan welfare reforms of 1996.\n\n\u201cThe President might not like Article 1 of the Constitution, but he can\u2019t ignore it. His latest attempt to side-step Congress and undermine the successful bipartisan welfare reforms of 1996 will not be tolerated by the members of this House.\n\n\u201cRepublicans have a clear record of strengthening the work requirements at the heart of the 1996 welfare reform bill, and we stand with the 83 percent of Americans who want to see them upheld, and not undermined through the substitution of a weaker policy.\n\n\u201cRather than weakening welfare\u2019s work requirements, the President should acknowledge the success of these bipartisan reforms and focus himself on removing tax and regulatory barriers from the private sector so that Americans can find jobs.\u201d\n\nHouse Joint Resolution 118 will counter the overreach of the Executive by:\n\nDisapproving of the President\u2019s regulatory effort to weaken welfare reform;\n\nPreventing the administration from implementing its plan to waive the work requirements of the 1996 welfare reform law; and\n\nPreserving the critical reforms of \u201896 that helped lift millions of American families out of poverty.\n\nAn identical measure to H.J. Res. 118 is being considered in the Senate.\n\nFour Facts About Today\u2019s Vote to Preserve Key Welfare Reforms\n\n(Courtesy of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce)\n\nToday the House will consider a joint resolution disapproving of the Obama administration\u2019s attempt to undermine welfare reform. Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) joined Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) in introducing H.J.Res. 118 to block this latest example of executive overreach and preserve policies that have helped millions of low-income families.\n\nHere are four facts about today\u2019s vote on H.J.Res. 118:\n\nFact #1. The resolution protects bipartisan reforms that have successfully helped families in need.\n\nFor the first time in our nation\u2019s history, the 1996 welfare reform law promoted work as an essential component to helping low-income families achieve self-sufficiency. The results exceeded expectations: The number of individuals on welfare dropped by 57 percent; poverty among single-mothers fell 30 percent; black children living in poverty dropped to its lowest level in 2001. These facts point toward successful policies that should be strengthened through future bipartisan cooperation, not unilaterally weakened through executive fiat.\n\nFact #2. The resolution reins in the president\u2019s unlawful and unprecedented waiver scheme.\n\nThe welfare reform law provides limited and explicit waiver authority to the administration. Nowhere does that waiver authority include the law\u2019s work requirements. According to the Government Accountability Office, no administration has ever granted a waiver of the work requirements \u2013 until now. In fact, the Department of Health and Human Services has previously denied requests by states to waive the work requirements citing its lack of authority to grant such a waiver.\n\nFact #3. The resolution demonstrates the right of Congress to review the president\u2019s welfare waiver rule.\n\nNot only does the administration lack the legal authority to grant waivers of the welfare work requirements, it is trying to advance its controversial waiver scheme through an end run around Congress. The Government Accountability Office has declared the administration\u2019s waiver plan is a rule under the Congressional Review Act and must be submitted to Congress for review. However, the Obama administration has refused to follow even this basic legal process.\n\nFact #4. The resolution stops a flawed rule that will lead to more government dependency.\n\nBefore the 1996 welfare reform law, many families were trapped in a cycle of dependency and poverty. Individuals in need of assistance spent an average of 13 years on welfare. By undermining the centerpiece of welfare reform, the president\u2019s waiver plan will unwind the progress we\u2019ve made in moving families off welfare and into the workforce. Recent reports on food stamps provide a startling warning. After President Obama suspended the work requirements in the food stamp program, the number of able-bodied adults receiving food stamps doubled.\n\nThe facts are clear: today\u2019s vote on this important resolution will protect policies that have helped millions of families in need and rein in the president\u2019s unlawful executive overreach.\n\nTo learn more about H.J.Res. 118, click here.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338429", "Constitution Day. Read it. Live it. Defend it.", "2012-09-17", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Today the United States Constitution is 225 years old. What a day for We the People to celebrate!\n\nOurs is the shortest and oldest written Constitution of any major government in the world. It is also the most revolutionary.\n\nEstablished within are the principles of individual liberty, limited government, and equality of every person before the law.\n\nThe republic created thereby requires tending. As citizens we do not take for granted the freedoms protected by our Constitution. We cherish them. We also remember those Americans throughout history who have sacrificed greatly, and those who continue to risk everything, to support and defend the Constitution and pursue a more perfect union.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338428", "NO MORE SOLYNDRAS", "2012-09-14", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "FOXX: NO MORE SOLYNDRAS\n\nFor the Sake of Taxpayers, the Inept Largesse of Big Government Bureaucrats Has Got to Stop\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), a member of the House Energy Action (HEAT) Team, today spoke out in defense of taxpayers and in support of the No More Solyndras Act (H.R. 6213) in the House of Representatives. H.R. 6213 passed with a bipartisan vote of 245-161.\n\n\u201cThe Obama Administration\u2019s energy policies have failed the American people,\u201d Congresswoman Foxx stated. \u201cKeystone was squashed, but a half billion taxpayer dollars were approved to be wasted in support of now-bankrupt Solyndra.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe inept largesse of Big Government bureaucrats has got to stop. The No More Solyndras Act will help impose protections for taxpayers against the politically-motivated spending binges that stream from this Administration.\u201d\n\nNo More Solyndras\n\nTo watch Rep. Foxx\u2019s floor statement, click here.\n\nCourtesy of the House Energy & Commerce Committee:\n\nThe \u201cNo More Solyndras Act,\u201d draws upon the lessons of the House Energy & Commerce Committee\u2019s investigation into the Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, the California solar panel manufacturer that ultimately went bankrupt last September.\n\nHere are some of the startling facts discovered during the committee\u2019s investigation into the Obama administration\u2019s highly touted stimulus \u201csuccess story\u201d:\n\n1) The White House ignored its own experts\u2019 warnings.\n\nThe administration was warned that Solyndra was a bad bet from the beginning. One Obama administration Office of Management and Budget (OMB) employee wrote in an email in March of 2009 that the Solyndra \u201cdeal is NOT ready for prime time.\u201d Another DOE employee prophetically warned that Solyndra would be out of cash in September 2011 \u2013 the exact month that the company was raided by the FBI and its doors were shuttered.\n\n2) Solyndra\u2019s rushed approval was for a previously scheduled press event.\n\nDocuments obtained by the committee show the White House rushed to approve the loan in spite of the warning signs to coincide with the press event for Solyndra\u2019s groundbreaking. An e-mail between OMB staff noted, \u201cGiven the time pressure we are under to sign-off on Solyndra, we don\u2019t have time to change the model\u2026\u201d As scheduled, Vice President Biden appeared via satellite at the groundbreaking ceremony just days later and touted Solyndra\u2019s ability to create \u201cpermanent jobs.\u201d\n\n3) DOE failed to monitor Solyndra\u2019s financial condition.\n\nWhile a 2010 SEC filing showed Solyndra had never reported a profit, was experiencing negative cash flows, and had cancelled a $300 million initial public stock offering, the DOE failed to adequately monitor Solyndra\u2019s financial condition. After this filing, and after Solyndra laid off employees, Republican members on the House Energy and Commerce Committee began asking questions about the Solyndra loan. Solyndra later attempted to mislead members of the committee by producing a document in July of 2011, entitled \u201cExceeding Expectations: Solyndra Today\u201d that claimed the company\u2019s financial condition was improving.\n\n4) The Obama administration stonewalled the committee\u2019s investigation.\n\nAfter OMB\u2019s refusal to provide any of its communications and internal documents regarding Solyndra, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations was forced to issue a subpoena in July 2011, for documents pertaining to the loan. Four months later, after the White House refused to respond to the committee\u2019s request for documents, the committee issued two subpoenas to President Obama\u2019s and Vice President Biden\u2019s Chiefs of Staff for Solyndra-related documents.\n\n5) Solyndra went belly up precisely when predicted.\n\nOn September 6, 2011, Solyndra, the company that President Obama heralded as \u201cleading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future,\u201d filed for bankruptcy, resulting in the loss of nearly 1,900 jobs. Just 2 days later on September 8, 2011, the FBI raided the Fremont, California company. Regrettably, the bankruptcy wouldn't have come as a surprise to the Obama administration. In an August 2009 email, DOE staff warned that Solyndra would be out of cash in September 2011: \"(T)he issue is cash balances\u2026 (T)he model runs out of cash in September 2011 even in the best case\u2026\" (See Footnote 191 for The Solyndra Failure HERE.)\n\n6) No regrets.\n\nIn an interview on October 3, 2011, ABC News asked President Obama whether he had any regrets over the Solyndra deal. The president replied, \u201cNo I don\u2019t,\u201d and simply that, \"hindsight is always 20-20.\" Several months later the president doubled down on deflecting responsibility for Solyndra\u2019s failure by stating, \u201cBut understand: This was not our program, per se.\u201d Even as recently as July of 2012, the Acting Executive Director of the DOE Loan Program Office called the program responsible for Solyndra an \u201cenormous success.\u201d\n\n7) The Department of Energy\u2019s restructuring of the Solyndra loan violated the law.\n\nThe committee\u2019s investigation discovered that DOE knowingly violated the law when it restructured the terms of the loan guarantee and put the interests of wealthy investors ahead of taxpayers. The committee also found DOE employed the \u201cClinton Defense\u201d in distorting the definition of the word \u201cis\u201d in the statute to legally justify subordination. OMB\u2019s oversight and review of Solyndra\u2019s restructuring occurred under then-director, now White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew\u2019s tenure. Despite warnings from an agency analyst that saving Solyndra could cost taxpayers more than allowing the solar company to fail, Lew failed to stop the restructuring when he had the opportunity. (See section VII of The Solyndra Failure HERE.)\n\n8) It wasn\u2019t just Solyndra.\n\nDocuments obtained by the committee exposed a startling relationship between Solyndra and another stimulus-backed project. Solyndra was a key supplier for Prologis\u2019 Project Amp, a solar panel installation project and the recipient of a partial loan guarantee for $1.4 billion. The committee\u2019s investigation showed the White House was well aware of Solyndra\u2019s deteriorating financial condition when it allowed DOE to move forward with Project Amp. DOE would later use the relationship between Project Amp and Solyndra as a key bargaining tool to push for a second restructuring while directly engaging in last minute negotiations between Solyndra and the Project Amp sponsor. Additionally, other DOE loan guarantee recipients under the same loan guarantee program have either failed or are running out of cash. It is this program that the \u201cNo More Solyndras Act\u201d phases out.\n\n9) Solyndra backers had close political connections to the White House.\n\nAs reported by ABC News, \"One of Solyndra's major investors was George Kaiser, an Oklahoma billionaire who raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama during the 2008 election.\" ABC also reported that \"Kaiser is one of several Obama campaign supporters who had a stake in companies that later received federal loans\u2026\" George Kaiser was closely involved in important decisions related to Solyndra through the life of the loan guarantee. According to the committee\u2019s report, \u201cIndividuals connected to the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) \u2014 whose primary investment arm, Argonaut, was Solyndra\u2019s largest shareholder \u2014 played important roles in a series of critical discussions and negotiations with DOE. George Kaiser, whose fortune funds the GKFF, was closely involved in financial decisions related to Solyndra, often authorizing key disbursements and restructuring proposals, as well as in Solyndra\u2019s lobbying, public relations, and government procurement strategies in Washington.\u201d (See page 4-5 of The Solyndra Failure HERE)\n\n10) As Solyndra\u2019s bankruptcy unfolds, it\u2019s like rubbing salt into the taxpayers\u2019 wound.\n\nWhile American taxpayers are stuck footing the bill for the Solyndra failure, Solyndra\u2019s private investors, including George Kaiser, now stand to gain hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks from Solyndra\u2019s bankruptcy.\n\nFor more information on the \u201cNo More Solyndras Act,\u201d click here.\n\nTo view the committee report, The Solyndra Failure, click here.\n\nTo view The Solyndra Failure\u2019s supporting documents, click here.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338425", "A Successful Policy like the 1996 Welfare Reform Merits Defending", "2012-09-13", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Foxx Praises Committee Passage of Resolution Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today praised the passage of House Joint Resolution 118 from the Education and Workforce Committee. H.J. Res. 118 will preserve federal work requirements for welfare programs from being dismantled by President Obama\u2019s Health and Human Services Department.\n\n\u201cMembers of the House Education & Workforce Committee did what we had to do today to protect successful welfare reforms from being gutted by the Obama Administration,\u201d Congresswoman Foxx stated. \u201cThe bipartisan welfare reforms of the mid-nineties were centered around work requirements for capable individuals. That particular commonsense reform helped pave a way for many Americans and their families to escape cyclical poverty, and got many of them off the welfare rolls altogether. A successful policy like that merits defending.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhy the President and his HHS Secretary decided to attempt to undermine the success of welfare reform is beyond me. Only Congress can change public law, not the Executive. The majority of members stand with the 83 percent of Americans who want to see welfare work requirements upheld.\u201d\n\nThe success of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act is well documented:\n\nThe number of individuals on the welfare rolls dropped by 57 percent;\n\nPoverty among all single mothers fell by 30 percent;\n\nPoverty among black children dropped to its lowest level in 2001; and\n\nEmployment and earnings among single mothers increased significantly.\n\nH.J. Res. 118 will:\n\nConvey the disapproval of Congress for the Obama Administration\u2019s attempt to bypass the legislature and weaken welfare reform;\n\nPrevent the Administration from implementing its unilateral plan to waive the work requirements of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law; and\n\nPreserve critical reforms that have helped lift millions of American families out of poverty.\n\nBackground\n\nOn July 12, 2012 the Obama Administration\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services issued an information memorandum announcing it would be unilaterally waiving the work requirements central to the 1996 Welfare reforms enacted by a Republican Congress with the support of President Bill Clinton.\n\nThe 1996 Welfare Reform Act includes a clause that specially prohibits the Executive Branch from changing the work requirements established within the law.\n\nThe Government Accountability Office\u2019s General Counsel, Lynn H. Gibson, weighed in on the Executive\u2019s unilateral action on September 4, noting that the memorandum issued by HHS on July 12 \u201cis a statement of general applicability and future effect, designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy with regard to TANF\u2026 Accordingly, the Information Memorandum is a rule under the Congressional Review Act.\u201d As a rule, he continued, the HHS policy directive \u201cmust be submitted to Congress and the comptroller general before taking effect.\u201d\n\nH.J. Res. 118 will advance to the full House of Representatives for consideration next week. An identical version of the resolution is moving through the Senate.\n\nIn addition to her support of H.J. Res. 118, Foxx is a cosponsor of H.R. 6140, the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act. Like H.J. Res. 118, this legislation would specifically prohibit the President\u2019s Health and Human Services Secretary from acting outside the limits of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act by waiving work requirements.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338426", "Foxx: President Should Stop Holding Defense Hostage to Advance Class Warfare Agenda", "2012-09-13", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Foxx Supports National Security & Job Protection Act to Avert Coming Defense Cuts\n\nRepresentative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) voted today to support the most recent House Republican proposal to avert the devastating Defense cuts scheduled to take place in January. The National Security and Job Protection Act (H.R. 6365) is the 2nd piece of legislation to be passed through the House of Representatives that would spare the military from the brunt of these cuts.\n\n\u201cThe President and Congressional Democrats have got to stop holding defense hostage in order to advance their class warfare agenda,\u201d Congresswoman Foxx stated.\n\n\u201cAt minimum, the President should submit a plan to the American people for how he expects our military to absorb these cuts without compromising national security. He\u2019s failed to do even that.\u201d\n\n\u201cRepublicans are ready and willing to work with the President to maintain our strong military in the midst of this uncertain world. I urge the Senate to leave tax demagoguery for another day and immediately take up the National Security and Job Protection Act and send it to the President.\u201d\n\nThe following are some of the effects the Defense sequester will have, if allowed to persist by President Obama:\n\n200,000 soldiers and Marines will be separated from service, bringing forces well below pre-9/11 levels;\n\nAbility to respond to contingencies in North Korea or Iran will be jeopardized;\n\nThe ground force will be at its smallest since 1940;\n\nThe U.S. fleet will have fewer than 230 ships, its smallest level since 1915;\n\nThe Air Force will have its smallest tactical fighter force in history;\n\nThe nuclear triad that has kept the U.S. and 30 of its allies safe for decades will be in jeopardy; and\n\nTwo BRAC rounds of base closings.\n\nWhat Military Leaders are Saying about the Coming Sequester:\n\nDefense Secretary Leon Panetta:\u201cIf the maximum sequestration is triggered, the total cut will rise to about $1 trillion compared with the FY 2012 plan. The impacts of these cuts would be devastating for the Department\u2026 Facing such large reductions, we would have to reduce the size of the military sharply. Rough estimates suggest after ten years of these cuts, we would have the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest number of ships since 1915, and the smallest Air Force in its history.\u201d\n\nGeneral Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:, \u201c[S]equestration leaves me three places to go to find the additional money: operations, maintenance, and training. That\u2019s the definition of a hollow force.\u201d\n\nGeneral Ray T. Odierno, Chief Of Staff, United States Army: \u201cCuts of this magnitude would be catastrophic to the military\u2026My assessment is that the nation would incur an unacceptable level of strategic and operational risk.\u201d\n\nAdmiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations:\u201cA severe and irreversible impact on the Navy\u2019s future.\u201d\n\nGeneral James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps:\u201cA Marine Corps below the end strength that\u2019s necessary to support even one major contingency.\u201d\n\nGeneral Norton A. Schwartz, Former Chief of Staff, United States Air Force:\u201cEven the most thoroughly deliberated strategy may not be able to overcome dire consequences.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338427", "Foxx Statement on Foreign Aid Funding in House Continuing Resolution", "2012-09-13", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement concerning unacceptable foreign aid commitments in the Continuing Resolution considered today in the House of Representatives:\n\n\u201cAs my voting record to-date shows, I have acted time-and-again to ensure funding for critical federal obligations, but the tragic events of this week demand a review of our policies regarding foreign aid.\n\n\u201cUnder the current circumstances and without the proper safeguards, it is absurd to commit American taxpayers to support foreign countries and entities that fail to secure our diplomats or are unapologetically hostile to our liberties or our allies abroad.\n\n\u201cBecause the Continuing Resolution does not resolve my concerns with foreign aid, I could not support it at this time.\n\n\u201cIt is my hope that when the short-term funding bill expires in six months\u2019 time Congress will take action to better control and restrict funding for objectionable foreign assistance.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338424", "Foxx Condemns Attack Against American Diplomats in Libya", "2012-09-12", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement today:\n\n\"I am outraged and saddened by the deplorable attack waged by a violent mob against the American diplomatic embassy in Libya on the evening of September 11th.\n\n\"My prayers are with the families of those we lost yesterday in Benghazi, including that of our Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Today, the nation certainly mourns with them.\n\n\"The United States government cannot tolerate violence against our diplomats, and we must take appropriate action to secure our interests and our citizens whenever and wherever they are threatened throughout the world.\"\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338423", "September 11: No American Will Ever Forget that Day", "2012-09-11", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Foxx Statement on Anniversary of September 11th\n\n\u201cNo American Will Ever Forget What Happened to our Nation\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina) issued the following statement today in recognition of the 11th anniversary of the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2011:\n\n\u201cNo American will ever forget what happened to us \u2013 to our nation - eleven years ago today.\n\n\u201cWe remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we watched the tragedy of September 11th unfold. But we also recount how in the midst of fear and uncertainty, so many Americans acted as heroes and gave of themselves for the sake of their country and their city, and to help their fellow man.\n\n\u201cThe darkness of that day did not prevail, nor will it. An attack meant to bring us to our knees instead brought us together, and prompted a generation of protectors \u2013 Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines \u2013 to rise up in defense of freedom and in pursuit of peace.\n\n\u201cSo today, in our thoughts and prayers we lift up the families of the fallen in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania; we give thanks for the bravery of first responders who ran toward the burning buildings, and away from safety; we honor the men and women whose last moments were committed to love of country and their fellow man; and we pray for the safety of those men and women still deployed throughout the world on the mission that began that day.\n\n\u201cMay we live worthy of their legacy.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338421", "Foxx Congratulates Winston-Salems Whitaker Elementary on National Blue Ribbon Award", "2012-09-07", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Whitaker Named One of Nation\u2019s 269 Finest for Preparing Students for Future Success\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC \u2013 05) is proud to congratulate Winston-Salem\u2019s own Whitaker Elementary School on its designation today as one of the United States\u2019 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools. The announcement of Whitaker\u2019s achievement was made today by Education Secretary Arne Duncan.\n\n\u201cWhitaker Elementary School has made Winston-Salem and all of North Carolina proud,\u201d Congresswoman Virginia Foxx stated. \u201cIts status as a National Blue Ribbon School reflects countless hours of hard work on the part of students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Congratulations to each of them! It is wonderful to know that children are being so well prepared at Whitaker Elementary School for bright, successful futures.\u201d\n\n\u201cSchools honored with the National Blue Ribbon Schools award are committed to accelerating student achievement and preparing students for success in college and careers,\u201d U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. \u201cTheir work reflects the conviction that every child has promise and that education is the surest pathway to a strong, secure future.\u201d\n\nWhitaker Elementary, and other honorees, will be recognized at a November awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. Whitaker\u2019s principal, Mrs. Brenda Herman, and one Whitaker teacher will be invited to the event where they will receive a National Blue Ribbon Schools placard and a flag to signify the school\u2019s great achievement.\n\nSchools were designated as Blue Ribbon based upon the marked improvement in standardized test scores achieved by their student bodies, or by overall national excellence in reading and math test performance.\n\nEducation Department heads from each of the fifty states nominate public schools for Blue Ribbon recognition. The Council for American Private Education nominates private schools.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338422", "368,000 Americans Give Up on Finding Work", "2012-09-07", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "President\u2019s Policies of Overspending and Imminent Tax Increases are Wrong Match for Economic Recovery\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today released the following statement upon the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 announcement that only 96,000 jobs were added in the month of August while nearly four times as many Americans left the workforce altogether:\n\n\u201cLast month, 368,000 of our fellow Americans lost their confidence in the job market and gave up their search for work, making August the 43rd straight month with national unemployment above 8%.\n\n\u201cSadly, not since the Great Depression has an economic recovery been so delayed and hampered by misguided government policies. The 12.5 million Americans still actively looking for work, to no avail, deserve better from their government than the adventures in overspending, overtaxing, absent budgets, and bureaucratic bloat that have defined this Administration.\n\n\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s lack of understanding with regard to the private sector has led him in the wrong direction at every turn. His \u201cStimulus,\u201d Obamacare, heightened regulations, and squandering of taxpayer dollars on crony-capitalist ventures such as Solyndra have brought us to this point. And as today\u2019s unemployment numbers show, a different strategy is needed to turn the economic tide\n\n\u201cRather than doubling down on the same wrongheaded policies of spending more and raising taxes on nearly 1,000,000 small businesses, which will cause an additional loss of 710,000 private sector jobs, the President should let go of his tax fixation, commit to tax stability for all Americans, and demand action on the 36 Republican jobs bills being ignored by his friends in the Senate.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338420", "National Debt Surpasses $16 Trillion", "2012-09-04", "2012", "2012-09", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "A powerful and prosperous nation should not be shackled by interest and debt\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC \u2013 05) made the following statement today upon hearing the announcement from the United States Treasury Department that publicly held national debt has surpassed $16 trillion:\n\n\u201cPresident Obama made a promise to cut the national deficit in half. But in fewer than four years, under his leadership and with his big-spending policies, our deficit has grown and national debt has expanded at an unprecedented rate to the historic high of $16 trillion.\n\n\u201cCrossing the $16 trillion threshold, as our country did today, should give each and every American pause. A powerful and prosperous nation should not be shackled by interest and debt.\n\n\u201cAmerican families work hard to manage and minimize their debt, aiming ultimately for debt freedom. Choices are made to reduce spending, cost compare, work harder and longer, and forgo niceties, all because families know debt stands in the way of household thriving and peace-of-mind in retirement. But rather than work with Congressional Republicans to apply those commonsense principles, President Obama has overseen a government growth and spending binge on failures such as \u201cStimulus,\u201d Obamacare, and Solyndra.\n\n\u201cThe fact that our children and grandchildren are on the hook for this debt is a shame. And just as no parent would wish a debt-ridden future upon their children, so too do we as citizens want better for our country.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:34Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338419", "Foxx: \"We Need More Americans Working, Not Fewer\"", "2012-08-01", "2012", "2012-08", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "President\u2019s Tax Hike Plan Will Cost 710,000 Jobs the Country Cannot Afford to Lose\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) stood up for American taxpayers today and voted twice to stop ALL scheduled 2013 tax increases. A bipartisan majority in the House voted with Foxx to defeat President Obama\u2019s tax plan that would increase taxes on 940,000 small businesses next year. Immediately after, by a bipartisan vote of 256 \u2013 171, the House passed the Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act (H.R. 8) to maintain current tax rates for all Americans.\n\n\u201cRaising taxes will make it harder for small businesses to grow and create jobs,\u201d Congresswoman Foxx stated. \u201cAny plan that seeks to increase taxes on the American people in order to blunt the consequences of Washington\u2019s overspending ought to be a non-starter, especially in this dragging economic recovery.\n\n\u201cWe need more Americans working, not fewer. But the President\u2019s tax hike plan will cost an estimated 710,000 jobs our country cannot afford to lose. That is why I cast my vote today in support of the Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act and tax relief for ALL Americans.\n\n\u201cWashington\u2019s money problems are the result of years of choices to overspend on failures like \u201cStimulus,\u201d Obamacare, Solyndra, and bailouts. They do not exist because the American people are not taxed enough.\n\n\u201cThere is a great deal Congress can do to remove obstacles to private sector job creation. In addition to passing the more than thirty jobs bills awaiting consideration in the Senate, both houses need to reform the United States Tax Code to make it simpler, flatter, and fairer \u2013 not a loophole haven for corporate lawyers. The Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act we passed today lays the groundwork for pursuing such reforms.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:30Z"], ["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338417", "Foxx: Federal Bureaucrats Should Know the Cost of Their Dictates", "2012-07-26", "2012", "2012-07", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Legislation by Foxx to Require Transparency & Accountability Regarding Government Mandates Passes House\n\nRepresentative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 4078, the Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act of 2012, by a vote of 245-172. The legislation is comprised of seven separate regulatory relief bills, including Representative Foxx\u2019s H.R. 373, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act.\n\n\u201cEvery year Washington imposes thousands of rules on the private sector and local governments. Hidden in those rules are costly mandates that make it harder for small businesses to hire.\n\n\"At the very least, policymakers and unelected regulators should know the cost of their dictates. The Unfunded Mandates Information & Transparency Act will help restore honesty and transparency to federal mandates and ensure Washington bureaucrats are held accountable for seeking public input and considering the negative consequences, in dollars and in jobs, prospective mandates will impose on the economy.\n\n\"Five years of work went into advancing this legislation. And as millions of Americans remain unemployed, it is my hope the Senate acts immediately to lessen the load unfunded mandates place on job creators.\u201d\n\nFor more information on Representative Foxx\u2019s Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act see the attached fact sheet and the following coverage by the Washington Times (Season for Relief from Big Government: More Transparency Would Help Curb Untracked Spending) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (Cut Down on Unfunded Mandates: Part I, Part II, Part III).\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:25Z"]], "truncated": false, "filtered_table_rows_count": 29, "expanded_columns": [], "expandable_columns": [], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "units": {}, "query": {"sql": "select url, title, date, year, month, party, chamber, state, member_name, bioguide_id, domain, scraper, source, date_source, text, has_text, collected_at, updated_at from releases where \"state\" = :p0 and \"year\" = :p1 order by date desc limit 101", "params": {"p0": "NC", "p1": "2012"}}, "facet_results": {"party": {"name": "party", "type": "column", "hideable": false, "toggle_url": "/press/releases.json?state=NC&year=2012", "results": [{"value": "Republican", "label": "Republican", "count": 29, "toggle_url": "http://dpwillis-congress-press-search.hf.space/press/releases.json?state=NC&year=2012&party=Republican", "selected": false}], "truncated": false}, "chamber": {"name": "chamber", "type": "column", "hideable": false, "toggle_url": "/press/releases.json?state=NC&year=2012", "results": [{"value": "House", "label": "House", "count": 29, "toggle_url": "http://dpwillis-congress-press-search.hf.space/press/releases.json?state=NC&year=2012&chamber=House", "selected": false}], "truncated": false}, "state": {"name": "state", "type": "column", "hideable": false, "toggle_url": "/press/releases.json?state=NC&year=2012", "results": [{"value": "NC", "label": "NC", "count": 29, "toggle_url": "http://dpwillis-congress-press-search.hf.space/press/releases.json?year=2012", "selected": true}], "truncated": false}, "year": {"name": "year", "type": "column", "hideable": false, "toggle_url": "/press/releases.json?state=NC&year=2012", "results": [{"value": "2012", "label": "2012", "count": 29, "toggle_url": "http://dpwillis-congress-press-search.hf.space/press/releases.json?state=NC", "selected": true}], "truncated": false}}, "suggested_facets": [], "next": null, "next_url": null, "private": false, "allow_execute_sql": true, "query_ms": 263.9430700801313, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}