{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398982", "Incoming House Education Leader Is a Bold Conservative Reformer", "2016-12-05", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Incoming House Education Leader Is a Bold Conservative Reformer \r\n   \r\n    \r\n      By Paul Crookston, National Review \r\n      \r\n  \r\n    \r\n      f \r\n      t \r\n      #\r\n      e\r\n      \r\n      \r\n    \r\n    \r\n      \r\n        Washington,\r\n        December 5, 2016\r\n      \r\n       \r\n    \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n    \r\n      \r\n      \r\n      \u201cMeet the Congresswoman Poised to Tear Up Obama\u2019s Education Legacy\u201d blares a Politico headline above a piece on Virginia Foxx, the incoming leader of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. And it\u2019s not wrong. A representative of North Carolina\u2019s fifth congressional district, Foxx has thoroughly repudiated the top-down approach to education reform preferred by previous administrations. Her selection signals that Republicans in Congress want to continue devolving authority over education to the states, and that they may end up pushing the ambitious Trump administration in that direction.\u00a0With a conservative education secretary in Betsy DeVos, Foxx will have a natural ally in the White House. Foxx has long argued that the Constitution does not indicate that the federal government should lead on education. In an interview with Inside Higher Ed, Foxx was asked, \u201cYou don\u2019t see any role for the federal government in encouraging [free community college] efforts at the state and local level?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d she replied. \u201cWhy should we? We have a $20 trillion debt. Why should we go into debt to pay for what the states should be doing?\u201d\u00a0Many on the right have been worried that a Trump\u2019s administration would try to force education policy on the states from on high. For now, at least, that fear seems to be unfounded.http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442690/virginia-foxxs-conservative-education-reform-agenda-congress\u00a0\r\n    \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n    \r\n      f \r\n      t \r\n      #\r\n      e", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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"], "primary_key_values": ["http://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398982"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3011510018259287, "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"}