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inSeptember 2005, Foxx was one of 11 members of Congress to vote against^[12] the $51 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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NC mom furious after GOP lawmaker replies to 10-year-old with attack on his teacher - Alternet.org

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:{:{During the House’s marathon markup of President Donald Trump’s historic budget bill, the Chairwoman of the powerful Rules Committee lashed out at Democrats for plainly describing the legislation’s sweeping consequences. Officially dubbed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” the measure narrowly passed in the early hours of Thursday by a 215–214 vote. }:

It removes $800 billion in funding from Medicaid, would lead to $535 billion in cuts to Medicare, and is projected to cause an estimated 8.6 to 13.7 million Americans to lose their health care. It will also add $3 trillion to the federal deficit—fueled by tax breaks heavily tilted toward the wealthy and the nation’s first-ever $1 trillion defense budget.}:

“I am concerned about what has been said about this bill and what it’s going to do,” Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) told the members of her committee Wednesday night. “The extreme comments that have been made about it, and how I believe that it is scaring people out there in the country unnecessarily.”

“The words I’ve heard, particularly today, are ‘cut,’ ‘rip,’ ‘gut,’ ‘kill,’ ‘cruel,’ ‘stealing food,’ ‘losing coverage,’ ‘jammed through,’ ‘biggest transfer of wealth from vulnerable to wealthy people,’ ‘irresponsible’.”

“That is not the way we ought to be talking about this bill.”

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Many appear to disagree.

MSNBC columnist Michael A. Cohen, just after the bill passed Thursday morning, wrote: “What we do know about the legislation the GOP is calling the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is genuinely terrifying.”

“What makes this situation even worse is that Republicans, from the president on down, are consistently lying about what the bill would do,” Cohen charged.

“The House Republican budget plan would eviscerate Medicaid and food assistance and shift resources toward the wealthiest Americans,” the Center for American Progress (CAP) warned ten days ago, adding that it “would implement the largest cuts to both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history—kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance and taking food away from hungry children.”

“It would raise household electricity costs while trapping most middle-class and poor students in greater student loan debt to afford a higher education,” CAP’s Bobby Kogan, Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy wrote. “And it would make all these changes as a means to partially offset tax breaks that disproportionately go to the richest Americans, giving households in the top 0.1 percent a multihundred-thousand-dollar tax break on average while increasing deficits by trillions of dollars. Taken as a whole, the bill would add trillions of dollars to structural deficits despite these enormous cuts to critical services.”

“If enacted,” Kogan warned, “this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.”

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“Taken as a whole, this bill would harm Americans—particularly the most vulnerable people—and leave the country worse off. It would lead to preventable deaths by taking health care away from millions of people. It would worsen food insecurity by taking food away from the hungry, particularly kids.”

“Budgets showcase our morality because they force governments to decide how to prioritize limited resources. The House Republican budget plan would shift funding away from the sick and hungry and, instead, toward the wealthiest Americans.”

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) responded to Foxx, saying, “In other words, ‘please don’t call this bill what it is or say what it does’.”

Watch the video below or at this link.

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During Wednesday’s heated House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Chairman Jim Comer and his Republican colleagues blocked a vote on Democratic Ranking Member Gerry Connolly’s motion to subpoena Elon Musk. The Director of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been accused of systematically dismantling federal agencies one by one, while his associates have allegedly gained access to the private data of potentially millions of Americans, as well as vast amounts of federal government information—including, reportedly, some classified material.

In Wednesday’s hearing on “Rightsizing Government,” Ranking Member Connolly was quickly blocked when he attempted to subpoena the person in charge of all those efforts testify before them.

The Oversight Committee’s mission is to “ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and all its agencies,” according to its website. “We provide a check and balance on the role and power of Washington – and a voice to the people it serves.”

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Connolly had filed formal notice on Monday requesting that Comer “invite” Elon Musk “to appear as a witness.”

“Who is this unelected billionaire that he can attempt to dismantle federal agencies, fire people, transfer them, offer them early retirement, and have sweeping changes to agencies without any congressional review, oversight, or concurrence?” Connolly asked on Wednesday. “Mr. Chairman, given his prominence and his importance, I move that the committee subpoena Elon Musk to come to before it as a witness at the earliest possible moment.”

But Chairman Comer quickly squelched the Democrat’s motion, declaring it was “not debatable.”

A direction to “table the motion,” apparently from Comer, came, as Connolly asked, “Mr. Chairman, why don’t we want to debate Elon Musk coming in and talking to us about his work and how he’s enriched himself by 64 billion dollars?”

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) then moved to formally block the motion, sparking a chaotic exchange as members talked over one another while Comer reprimanded a Democrat he deemed “out of order.”

U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) blasted Comer: “You will not even entertain a motion to bring him (Elon) in front of the Oversight Committee?”

“Yes, let’s have order in this country,” she exclaimed before adding, “Mr. Elon Musk is out of order!”

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Comer accused her of “demagoguery.”

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U.S. Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL) wrote, “I’m in Oversight Committee right now. Ranking Member Connolly just called for a vote to subpoena Elon Musk. Republicans out-number us on this committee, but many aren’t in the room. We’ll see who wins this vote. We deserve transparency and answers.”

Just minutes later he added: “Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.”

Responding to a video of the event Connolly wrote: “You read that right – blocked without debate. If Republicans are such big fans of Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of our government, why are they so afraid to hear from him? Because they know you, the American people, aren’t gonna like what he has to say.”

“They will stop at nothing to cover up Elon Musk’s lawlessness,” he added.

In a press release, Chairman Comer accused Democrats of “hyperventilating and sensationalizing the Trump Administration’s efforts to advance necessary reforms,” while he vowed to “continue working with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on solutions to make federal operations more efficient and effective for all Americans.”

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Watch the videos above or at this link.

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foxx Slams the Woke Virus Infecting American Society, Harming American Savers

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18, 2024

WASHINGTON– Today, as part of House Republicans’ fight to save Americans from wokeism, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of H.R. 5339, the Protecting Americans’ Investments from Woke Policies Act. The bill protects Americans’ savings from radical left-wing policies by ensuring financial advisors are focused on maximizing returns in retirement plans.

Chairwoman Foxx's remarks (as prepared for delivery):

“I rise today in full support of the Republican fight against the woke progressive agenda. The Committee on Education and the Workforce is proud to lead debate on the Protecting Americans’ Investments from Woke Policies Act, or H.R. 5339, a bill that would confront and dispatch of one of the most nefarious and hidden forms of wokeness.**“Wokeness comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s a problem when it’s pushed at your local public school. It’s an existential threat to the country when it’s pushed by the institutions that police how we think, what we say, and where our money goes.

“Wokeness destroys everything it touches, including the value-neutral institutions that America used to take for granted. First, wokeness conquered academia. Then, it conquered the media. The final frontier of the woke mind virus is the banks and capitalism itself.

“You may say, what—banks are woke? They’re driven by things like profit motive and the markets. Well, think again. Under the guise of a practice known as Environmental, Social and Governance investing, or ESG for short, banks are responsible for woke social engineering on a scale that history’s authoritarians could only dream of.

“In essence, a big bank or asset manager will take your hard-earned pension or 401(k) and invest it in radical progressive causes. These ESG funds exclude businesses deemed insufficiently woke.

“What may disqualify a company from receiving woke capital is including, but not limited to: too many white, straight men in the boardroom, too much profit in the oil and gas industry, or too many politically incorrect takes by your CEO on X, formally known as Twitter.

“That the S&P 500’s ESG Index delisted a green company like Tesla only proves the point that ESG is nothing but a woke power grab. Concerns about the environment are secondary to enforcing bland progressive conformity.

“What’s more, ESG factors guide about one fourth of all assets under management or $30 trillion, yet these funds underperform when compared to their conventional peers.

“Take this from the Financial Times: ‘Over the past 12 months, global sustainable equity funds made an 11 per cent return, compared with 21 per cent for conventional stock funds, according to a May report from JPMorgan.’*

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all 26 Republicans on the powerful House Oversight Committee have refused to sign a simple, two-sentence statement denouncing white supremacy.

"We, Members of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, together denounce white nationalism and white supremacy in all its forms, including the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory. These hateful and dangerous ideologies have no place in the work of the United States Congress or our Committee," the statement (copy below) from Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reads.

It comes after several Oversight Committee Republicans "invoked dangerous and conspiratorial rhetoric echoing the racist and nativist tropes peddled by white supremacists and right-wing extremists," during a February hearing on the "border crisis," Ranking Member Raskin said in a March 5 letter to Committee Chair James Comer (photo, top.) The Washington Post first reported on Raskin’s letter.

"In particular, some Members repeatedly described the number of migrants arriving at the border as an 'invasion,' and even went so far as to falsely accuse the Biden-Harris Administration of implementing a plan 'to deliberately open our border' for purposes of 'changing our culture'—mirroring language often used by MAGA extremists who believe that pro-immigration policies are designed to replace white populations with non-white immigrants and other racial minorities," Raskin's letter says.

Congressman Raskin is a former constitutional law professor who gained national prominence as the impeachment manager during the second impeachment of Donald Trump.

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"As I explained to you at the hearing," his letter to Comer continues, "such language borrows from the 'Great Replacement' theory, the central dogma of contemporary white supremacy that has been repeatedly invoked by white nationalists to justify violent acts of domestic terrorism, including the mass murders of dozens of Americans at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a Walmart in El Paso, Texas."

All 21 Democrats on the Oversight Committee signed the statement, and all 26 Republicans refused. A Committee spokesperson called the statement a "distraction," according to The Independent.

the 26 Republican Representatives who refused to denounce white supremacy and white nationalism are (in order of appearance on the statement): James Comer, Jim Jordan, Mike Turner, Paul Gosar, Virginia Foxx, Glenn Grothman, Gary Palmer, Clay Higgins, Pete Sessions, Andy Biggs, Nancy Mace, Jake LaTurner, pat Fallon, Byron Donalds, Kelly Armstrong, Scott Perry, William Timmons, Tim Burchett, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lisa McClain, Lauren Boebert, Russell Fry, Anna Paulina Luna, Chuck Edwards, Nick Langworthy, and Eric Burlison.

See a copy of the signed/unsigned statement below or at this link.

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a deal between Democratic and Republican committee leaders would help school meal providers facing higher food costs as well as ease a transition from federal government policies that provided universal free meals to many children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

:{Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking member John Boozman, R-Ark., and House Education and Labor Chairman Robert:(style="font-family:Merriweather"):}: C. Scott, D-Va., and ranking member Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., announced an agreement and legislation that would provide higher lunch and breakfast per-meal reimbursements for the 2022-23 school year.

The bill would provide 40 cents in federal reimbursement per lunch and 15 cents in reimbursement per breakfast meal above the annual adjustment for inflation. The next adjustment is July 1.

The two committees have jurisdiction over child nutrition programs, including the national school lunch and breakfast programs. To pay for the policies, more than $3 billion would be rescinded from three pandemic relief bills.

Foxx said the deal balanced costs and needs to “uphold our responsibility to taxpayers and abide by the principle that aid should be targeted and temporary while also helping students truly in need.”...

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Rep. Virginia Foxx

According to the Center for Public Integrity, Rep. Virginia Foxx bemoaned during a 2011 floor debate that environmentalists "we, human beings, have more impact on the climate and the world than God does." She also reportedly referenced books by climate change skeptics.

When contacted for comment, Foxx's team provided a statement that in part condemned "overly prescriptive federal regulations or extreme proposals like the Green New Deal."

"While human activity, including greenhouse gases, obviously has an impact on the environment, feedbacks in the Earth system create large uncertainties with respect to climate projections," Foxx said in a statement. "That said, government decisions about how to best respond must be made in the appropriate context of new technologies, distributional effects, and economics."

League of Conservation Voters score: 3%

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everywhere around us there is evidence of climate change, from the :{:{increase in winter storms:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: such as New England’s late January :{:{blizzard:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, to California’s recent record-breaking :{:{winter heat wave:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:. Meanwhile, the world’s biggest oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP, whose products directly fuel global warming, have done little to counter the disastrous trend. While they have made :{:{promises:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: that sound constructive on the surface, a cursory examination reveals them to be hollow. Perhaps worried about their deception being exposed, the executives and board members of these fossil fuel companies snubbed members of Congress at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform :{:{hearing:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: on February 8, 2022.

The hearing was entitled “Fueling the Climate Crisis: Examining Big Oil’s Climate Pledges.” Lawmakers were interested in whether companies were actually enacting their widely touted climate actions and were following up from a :{:{hearing:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: last fall organized by the same committee which focused on the corporate cover-up of the climate crisis. The top oil executives did show up to that hearing in what was considered a historic appearance, and were subjected to a :{:{rare level of interrogation:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: during which they generally refused to take responsibility for their actions.

We can only assume they did not want a repeat of such harsh scrutiny at the February hearing. Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) in her opening statement that these companies “have spent millions to advertise these plans [to combat climate change] and greenwash their images.” Surely, they would want to publicize the work they were supposedly doing to mitigate the climate crisis. But, according to Maloney, “when the committee invited board members of these companies to come in today and explain their pledges, they declined to appear on the date we requested.” She added, “[n]one of them showed up today. Not a single one.”

For decades, oil and gas companies engaged in :{:{outright denial:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, saying there was no such thing as global warming. ExxonMobil in particular was caught having :{:{buried:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: its own internal research. Now that the game is up, the company has recast itself as a leader on the climate by :{:{claiming to support the Paris Accord:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: and embracing the idea of “net-zero emissions.”

To promote the fantasy of how it will curb climate change, ExxonMobil launched a slick-looking :{:{website:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: featuring a quote by CEO Darren Woods, saying, “We respect and support society’s ambition to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, and continue to advocate for policies that promote cost-effective, market-based solutions to address the risks of climate change.” This sentence could only have been written by a committee of lawyers and public relations experts.

First, in Woods’ worldview, society is aiming for reduced emissions, not his company, which apparently sees itself as above society.

Second, “net-zero emissions” is a pie-in-the-sky goal that looks really good on paper, until it becomes apparent that it is based on entirely :{:{unproven, untested, emerging technologies:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: that may or may not work. The idea is akin to saying that it’s okay to litter all over your neighbourhood if you also pick up trash elsewhere in the future because the net amount of trash you will have thrown onto the street will someday be zero. Oh, and the technology for picking up trash is only now being invented, so we just have to wait and see if it works.

Third, Woods says that ExxonMobil wants “cost-effective, market-based solutions”—this in spite of the fact that the predictable outcome of a cost-effective, market-based solution to meeting energy demands was climate change. Why would a market-based solution give us anything different this time around?

Fourth, the CEO says he is interested in “solutions to address the risks of climate change,” not to actually ensure that the climate doesn’t change. He also doesn’t specify whose well-being is at risk (ours) and who is risking our well-being (ExxonMobil).

Woods’ entire statement can be summed up as “net-zero” logic, spewing enough sincere-sounding fallacies about fixing climate change while balancing them out with just enough vagueness so as to provide legal cover for doing absolutely nothing.

It was this sort of trickery that the recent congressional hearing was aimed at exposing. Since the oil and gas executives were too chicken to show up and face the music, the committee instead invited climate experts such as :{:{Dr. Michael Mann:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, and :{:{Tracey Lewis:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, climate and energy policy counsel with Public Citizen, to answer questions about the climate pledges. Over the course of three hours, lawmakers including Ro Khanna of California and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan delved deep into the various euphemisms that companies like ExxonMobil employ to gloss over their inaction.

The most egregious example was revealed to be ExxonMobil’s :{:{accounting trick:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: to hide its carbon footprint. Not only is the idea of net-zero emissions an unrealistic diversion, but the company also wants to apply it only to the production side of its operations, not to the oil and gas it sells. Representative Khanna it was “like an automaker pledging to eliminate emissions from their manufacturing but doing nothing to improve their cars’ fuel efficiency.”

Conservatives have risen to the defense of fossil fuel companies. Although oil and gas company executives were absent (by their own choice), Republican lawmakers such as Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and a witness named :{:{Katie Tubb from the Heritage Foundation:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: wereeager mouthpieces for the industry. The only defenses left in the face of certain climate catastrophe are couched in imperialist thinking—such as, “the industry’s health is a measure of American prestige, and curbing it will mar the U.S.’s global standing”—and false equivalencies, like, “given all the beneficial outcomes of oil and gas products, curbing fossil fuels will destroy civilization.” Congresswoman Foxx and Ms. Tubb employed both.

Foxx raised the favorite Republican idea of the United States achieving “energy independence” or “energy freedom,” which is code for gobbling up fossil fuel resources more quickly and cheaply than competitor nations, no matter what the consequences.

And Tubb bizarrely cited how her contact lenses that are made from fossil fuel products are a gift. She, “I’m very thankful for that; it’s improved the well-being and productivity of my life,” as if to say that if we want the convenience of contact lenses, we need to embrace ExxonMobil’s profit-driven desire to destroy our planet. In Tubb’s view, if it’s her lenses or life on earth, she chooses lenses.

This is exactly the logic employed by former President Donald Trump, who deftly relied on his supporters’ ignorance of how wind energy works when he :{:{claimed:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: that the television wouldn’t work as soon as the wind died down.

There was a time when the likes of Trump, Foxx and Tubb simply cast doubt on the science of climate change. Now that that doesn’t work—given how :{:{apparent:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: the change is to most of us—the response has morphed into a version of “So what? Should we live like barbarians?”

The pro-fossil fuel view is that if we want to embrace Western living standards, climate catastrophe is the price we must pay. Otherwise, we relegate ourselves to living like those unfortunate residents of third world nations who routinely live without electricity or contact lenses.

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Virginia Ann Foxx (née Palmieri;^[1][2] June 29, 1943) is an American educator and businesswoman serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 5th congressional district, which encompasses much of the northwestern portion of the state and the Gastonia area. Foxx is a member of the Republican Party and served as Secretary of the House Republican Conference from 2013 to 2017.^[3] She has been the ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor since 2019, and served as the committee's chair from 2017 to 2019.

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Early life, education and career

Foxx was born in The Bronx, New York, to Dollie (née Garrison) and Nunzio John Palmieri. She was reared in a rural area of Avery County, North Carolina. Foxx grew up in a poor family and first lived in a home with running water and electricity at age 14.^[4]

While attending Crossnore High School in Crossnore, North Carolina, Foxx worked as a janitor at the school and was the first in her family to graduate from high school.^[5] She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and later earned both a Master of Arts in college teaching (1972) and an Ed.D (1985) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.^[2][6] Foxx and her husband owned and operated a nursery and landscaping business.^[6]

Foxx worked as a research assistant and then an English instructor at Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute and Appalachian State University before moving into university administration. From 1987 until her 1994 entry into politics, she was president of Mayland Community College. Under North Carolina Governor James G. Martin, Foxx served as Deputy Secretary for Management.^[6] From 1994 to 2004, she served in the North Carolina Senate.^[7]

United States House of Representatives

Committee assignments

• Committee on Education and Labor (Ranking Member)
  • As the Ranking Member of the committee, Foxx serves as an ex officio member on all subcommittees.
• Committee on Oversight and Government Reform^[8]
• Italian American Congressional Delegation

Caucus memberships

• Republican Study Committee^[9]
• Congressional Constitution Caucus^[10]

Political campaigns

Virginia Foxx talking with constituents in Yadkinville, NC

:{Foxx was first elected to the U.S. House in 2004, defeating :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:Jim Harrell, Jr. with 59% of the vote.^[11]

Foxx was briefly targeted for defeat in the 2006 elections, but the Democrats' top choice, Winston-Salem mayor Allen Joines, decided not to run. Joines later said he lacked the stomach for the kind of race he felt it would take to defeat Foxx.^[12] Her 2006 opponent was Roger Sharpe, whom she defeated.

Roy Carter of Ashe County was Foxx's opponent in the 2008 election; she won by a substantial margin.

In 2010, Foxx was reelected with about 65% of the vote.^[13]

In 2014, Foxx was reelected with about 60% of the vote, defeating software developer Josh Brannon.^[14]

In 2016, Foxx was reelected with about 59% of the vote, again over Brannon.^[15]

In 2018, Foxx was reelected with 57% of the vote, defeating DD Adams, a council member for the North Ward of Winston-Salem.^[16]

Tenure

Foxx during the110th Congress

Hurricane Katrina

In September 2005, Foxx was one of 11 members of Congress to vote against^[17] the $51 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities (HERO) Act

The first bill Foxx sponsored that was signed into law was the HERO Act, signed by President George W. Bush on Memorial Day 2006. It allows U.S. troops to increase their retirement savings by investing a portion of their combat pay into Individual Retirement Accounts.

Electronic Pay Stub Act

The second bill Foxx sponsored that was signed into law is the Electronic Pay Stub Act, which gives federal employees the choice of receiving their pay stubs electronically. This legislation was projected to save taxpayers millions of dollars. Studies have shown that it costs 10 times more to purchase and distribute paper stubs than it does to distribute electronic stubs.^[18] This bill was signed into law in October 2008.^[19]

Troubled Asset Relief Program

Shortly after Congress approved the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Foxx identified a provision in the law that allowed her to force consideration of a measure to deny the second, $350 billion, tranche of the TARP bailout. On November 19, 2008, she introduced H.J.Res. 101, which met all the parliamentary requirements for consideration once the president requested the second tranche.^{[citation needed]}

In the next (111th) Congress, Foxx reintroduced the measure as H.J.Res. 3, and shortly before leaving office, Bush requested the second tranche, thereby activating the trigger allowing her to commandeer the House floor, although she was not a member of the majority party. Her measure passed the House 270–155; the act was never addressed in the Senate.^[20]

In a 2007 interview, Foxx said, "We have the best economy we have had in 50 years."^[21]

Opposition to LGBT rights

In April 2009, Foxx expressed opposition to the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, claiming that Matthew Shepard's murder was not a hate crime. While debating the act in the House, she called the murder a "very unfortunate incident" but claimed "we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay." She ultimately called that allegation "a hoax that continues to be used as an excuse for passing hate crimes bills."^[22] Some media outlets, including the New York Times,^[23] Washington Post,^[24] and Huffington Post,^[25] criticized her statements, as did Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz.^[26] Democratic sources claimed that Matthew Shepard's mother was present during Foxx's statements.^[26]

Foxx later retracted her comments, suggesting her use of the word "hoax" was in bad taste.^[27] She suggested that Shepard's murder was a tragedy and that his killers had received appropriate justice.^[27]

In 2010, Foxx voted against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act.^[28]

In 2019, Foxx strongly opposed the Equality Act, a bill that would expand the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and urged Congress members to vote against it.^[29]

Health care debate

When commenting on the House version of the reform bill that funds counseling for end-of-life issues, Foxx said, "Republicans have a better solution that won't put the government in charge of people's health care" and "[The plan] is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government."^[30] She later said, "we have more to fear from the potential of the Affordable Health Care for America Act passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country."^[31][32]

Turkish American Caucus

Foxx has been a member of the Congressional Caucus on Turkey and Turkish Americans since 2005. Her former son-in-law, Mustafa Özdemir, is a Turkish businessman.^[33][34]

Opposition to birthright citizenship

In January 2013, Foxx co-sponsored legislation that would stop children born in the United States to undocumented parents from gaining citizenship.^[35]

Trump impeachment

On December 18, 2019, Foxx voted against both articles of impeachment (abuse of power and obstruction of Congress) of President Donald Trump.

House security

In May 2021, Foxx became the fifth Republican representative to be fined for evading metal detectors put in place outside the chamber after the January 2021 storming of the Capitol. Foxx ran through the magnetometer, setting it off, and ignored officers attempting to prevent her entering the House floor.^[36][37][38]

COVID-19 pandemic

Foxx, along with all other Senate and House Republicans, voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.^[39]

Political positions

Abortion

Foxx opposes abortion. She voted for a bill to repeal a rule requiring state and local governments to distribute federal funds to qualified health centers, even if they perform abortions.^[40] In 2014 Foxx was asked whether there were any conditions under which she considered abortion acceptable. She replied that, even in the case of rape, incest, or the health of the mother, no exception should be made to justify abortion.^[41]

Legislation

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (H.R. 803; 113th Congress) – Foxx introduced the bill on February 25, 2013.^[42] The bill would consolidate job training programs under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) into a single funding stream.^[43] It would also amend the Wagner-Peyser Act, reauthorize adult-education programs, and reauthorize programs under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.^[43]
• Strengthening Transparency in Higher Education Act (H.R. 4983; 113th Congress) – Foxx introduced this bill on June 26, 2014.^[44] The bill would reserve $1 million from funding for the United States Department of Education to replace the current College Navigator website with a new site and change the type of information that the site would provide.^[45] The bill also would amend the requirements for the department's net-price calculator, which provides details on the costs of post-secondary education.^[45]
• Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act (H.R. 1313; 115th Congress) – Foxx introduced this bill on March 2, 2017.^[46] The bill would eliminate the genetic privacy protections of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–233); allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars; and let employers see that genetic and other health information.^[47][48]
• H.R. 150: Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2019 (GREAT Act) -- introduced by Foxx on January 3, 2019.^[49] Pertains to open data.

Texas v. Pennsylvania

In December 2020, Foxx was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.^[50]

2021 Electoral College vote certification

On January 6, 2021, Foxx was one of 147 Republican lawmakers who objected to the certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election.^[51]

Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment & Expungement Act (MORE) conflict of interest

In December 2020, Foxx voted against the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment & Expungement Act (MORE).^[52] According to financial disclosure reports, she made at least six investments inAltria,one of the world's largest tobacco companies and a leader in the burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry, since September 2020.^[53] In all, records show she has purchased somewhere between $79,000 and $210,000 in Altria stock.^[54]

See also

• Women in the United States House of Representatives

References

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In addition to emphasizing that their companies were operating in accordance with the science of the time, the executives also focused on the clean energy innovation they are doing.

“Just as when we were founded in 1879, we continue to believe in a power of human ingenuity to overcome obstacles and find responsible solutions for meeting the world’s growing energy needs to deliver a better future for all,” ChevronCEO Michael K. Wirth said at the hearing.

While the stated goal of the hearing was “to examine the fossil fuel industry’s long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming,” according to a statement from the lawmakers’ committee, the content of the hearing ranged far beyond climate disinformation to include a political referendum on gas prices, American energy independence, among many other topics.

But many of the hours of the hearing were filled with lawmakers taking the five minutes in the spotlight to address energy issues key to their own constituents.

For example, lawmakers brought up the high price of gas at the pump for consumers.

“It’s clear that this hearing is part of a Democrat-led disinformation campaign to distract from the Biden administration’s failed policies that are hurting average Americans,” Virginia Foxx, a Republican Congressperson from North Carolina said.

“As of this morning $3.39 per gallon gas is the average price of gas in America,” Foxx said. “This hurts families in my district and across the nation enough to decide which items on their grocery list they cannot buy, and what trips they can no longer afford to take.”

When Democratic presidents are in office, some Republicans will go to ridiculous extremes to blame them for anything that goes wrong. The late radio host Rush Limbaugh, for example, blamed then-President Barack Obama for Michael Jackson's death in 2009 — and similarly, Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina is blaming President Joe Biden for an increase in domestic violence in her state. And ironically, the far-right Republican did it while bragging about her vote against a bill designed to combat domestic violence.

Foxx, LGBTQ Nation reports, made the anti-Biden comments while voicing her opposition to the Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021, which would amend federal domestic violence laws.

The 78-year-old congresswoman said, "COVID-19 and President Biden's failed economic policies have dealt our nation…. government-mandated restrictions and economic challenges. It appears those negative outcomes have snowballed to exacerbate an even worse fallout…. Evidence suggests that in this pandemic environment, stress due to work, school, substance abuse, and financial struggles have added to more violence in the home. Recent statistics show that domestic violence-related homicides have increased in my home state of North Carolina."

Foxx overlooked some important facts. The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis that Biden inherited from former President Donald Trump, who discouraged social distancing measures, held superspreader events and railed against wearing protective face masks. Biden, in contrast, has aggressively encouraged Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19, stressing that the sooner things get back to some degree of normal in the United States, the better off the country's economy will be.

LGBTQ Nation's Alex Bollinger notes that Foxx "did not say exactly which statistics she was referring to, but reporting by NC Health News showed that reports of domestic violence in North Carolina increased dramatically in 2020 over 2019, before Biden became president."

Playing the culture war card, Foxx also attacked the Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021 as anti-religion — telling fellow lawmakers, "The bill also tramples the rights of faith-based providers by forcing organizations to abandon their sincerely held religious beliefs or give up helping victims through these programs."

Foxx served in the North Carolina State Senate during the 1990s, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 and chaired the House Education Committee in 2017 and 2018.

anti-legalization GOP Congresswoman cashing in on marijuana stocks

Brett Bachman Salon

 May 30, 2021

Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican with an influential post on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, has spent her Congressional career advocating against the legalization of marijuana — wh

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2015672Fossil Fuel Energy BillDirty Energy 

2015651Extreme Attack on Carbon Pollution Limits for New Power Plants (CRA)Climate Change 

2015650Extreme Attack on Carbon Pollution Limits for Existing Power Plants (CRA)Climate Change 

2015565Hardrock MiningOther 

2015549Crude Oil Export BanDirty Energy 

2015518Attacking Public Input & Environmental ReviewOther 

2015508Climate Change Resilience & AdaptationClimate Change 

2015482Safeguards ShutdownOther 

2015462Genetically Modified Food LabelingToxics/Public Right to Know 

2015458Toxic Coal AshToxics/Public Right to Know 

2015447California Water ResourcesClean Water 

2015428Forest ManagementLands/Forests 

2015427Limiting Access to the CourtsOther 

2015409National MonumentsLands/Forests 

2015408Big Oil Subsidies on Public LandsDirty Energy, Lands/Forests 

2015405Ivory SalesWildlife 

2015404Endangered Species ProtectionsWildlife 

2015402BLM Fracking ProtectionsDirty Energy 

2015401Smog PollutionAir 

2015400Social Cost of CarbonClimate Change 

2015399Grazing on Public LandsLands/Forests 

2015398National Ocean PolicyOceans 

2015397Stream Buffer ZoneClean Water 

2015384Carbon Pollution Limits for Power PlantsClimate Change 

2015362Fast Track of Trade AgreementsOther 

2015267Fisheries ManagementOceans 

2015236Prairie Chicken & Burying Beetle ProtectionsWildlife 

2015219Undermining Clean Water ProtectionsClean Water 

2015215Assault on Clean Energy and Clean WaterClean Energy, Clean Water 

2015212Attack On Clean Water ProtectionsClean Water 

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Then the Republicans took control of the Senate and the signals changed.

In February, all major higher education lobbying groups but one—the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities—sent a letter backing the “Supporting Academic Freedom Through Regulatory Relief Act,” authored by Rep. John Kline of Minnesota and Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, the Republicans who chair, respectively, the education committee and the higher education subcommittee. The bill, which has a counterpart in the Senate, would bar the regulations on for-profits, among other regulatory rollbacks.

The shift cheers the for-profits, which have seen enrollment fall amid all the bad publicity for the industry and threat of tougher oversight (one major chain, Corinthian Colleges, has been shut down entirely).

“We welcome anybody that’s interested in stopping over-burdensome regulations that are not helping students,” said Noah Black, a spokesman for the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, which records show spent $650,000 on federal lobbying last year. “We’re always happy when people agree with us.”

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. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) took on a unique enemy during a radio interview yesterday: people with student loans.

Though many politicians sympathize with those who are saddled with exorbitant student debt, Foxx, who chairs the House subcommittee on higher education, had a different take. Appearing on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, the North Carolina congresswoman recounted her own experience paying for college, where she worked her way through and graduated after seven years. Foxx then pointed to her own experience as justification for why she has “very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt.” “There’s no reason for that,” she concluded:

FOXX: I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money. He borrowed a little bit because we both were totally on our own when we went to college, totally. […] I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” You don’t have it dumped in your lap.

Listen to it:

Despite Foxx’s implication, these loans are not taken out frivolously. They are taken out because of the soaring cost of college. In other words, because the price of college is so high — and House Republicans are working overtime to cut Pell grants for one million low-income students — the amount of loans required to pay for it is also high. Indeed, student loan debt topped one trillion dollars last year, orders of magnitude larger than in the decades prior.

Still, Foxx’s distaste for large loans does not appear to extend to the mortgage sector. In Foxx’s 2010 financial disclosure statement, she owned two individual mortgage notes worth up to $250,000 each, from which she earned as much as $20,000 in payments.

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Virginia_Foxx

Virginia Foxx is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 5th Congressional district of North Carolina (map). She was first elected in 2004.

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• 1 Record and controversies
  • 1.1 Iraq War
  • 1.2 Environmental record
  • 1.3 Hurricane Katrina
• 2 Bio
  • 2.1 Congressional career
    • 2.1.1 2006 elections
• 3 Money in politics
• 4 Committees and Affiliations
  • 4.1 Committees
    • 4.1.1 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)
• 5 More Background Data
• 6 Contact
  • 6.1 Twitter
• 7 Articles and Resources
  • 7.1 Local blogs and discussion sites

Record and controversies

General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's articles on legislation. You can add information you find on how Virginia Foxx voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to cite your sources!

Iraq War

For more information see the chart of U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War.

Environmental record

For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

Hurricane Katrina

In September 2005 Foxx was one of 11 members of Congress to vote against the $51 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Katrina.[1] She cited "high potential for the waste, fraud and abuse of federal tax dollars" as her reason for opposing the aid. [2]

Bio

Foxx, born June 29, 1943, is a former member of the North Carolina General Assembly where she represented the state's 45th Senate District. A business owner from Banner Elk, North Carolina, Foxx served a total of five terms, spanning 1995 to 2004, in the North Carolina Senate, before being elected to Congress.

Due to the highly partisan makeup of the 5th district (only the 10th district is considered more Republican), the2004 primary quickly became "the most expensive congressional primary in the nation."[3] Foxx was the only woman in a field of eight candidates; most of her ugliest spats occurred with Vernon Robinson, also an outspoken social conservative. Robinson skewered all of his opponents as being liberals, and Foxx, one of the most conservative members in North Carolina's legislature, was attacked for being "pro-gay" and "pro-tax"[4]. Although Robinson was the highest vote-getter in the primary and heavily outspent Foxx (having raised more than $2million from out of state sources[5]), she decisively defeated him (55%-45%) in the runoff. By contrast, her general election campaign against Jim Harrell, Jr., which she won easily (59%-41%), was most cordial.

Congressional career

Foxx is proud of her conservative voting record. She posted on her home page (April 3, 2006): "United States Rep. Virginia Foxx (N.C.-5) is one of the nation's most conservative Members of Congress, according to National Journal. An article in the magazine's February 25th issue rates Rep. Foxx's 2005 voting record as more conservative than 91.3 percent of her colleagues." [6]

2006 elections

In 2006, the Democrats nominated Roger Dean Sharpe to face Foxx in her November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006) [7] Foxx retained her seat.

Money in politics

This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. cid=N00026166&cycle=2006

• Revolving door profile for Virginia Foxx from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
• 2006 privately funded travel profile for Virginia Foxx from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
• Personal finance profile for Virginia Foxx from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

Committees and Affiliations

Committees

• House Committee on Agriculture
  • Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
  • Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture
• House Committee on Education and Labor
  • Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness
  • Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
• House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
  • Subcomitee on National Security and International Relations

Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)

• House Committee on Agriculture
  • Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs
  • Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture
  • Subcommittee on Department Operations Oversight Dairy Nutrition and Forestry
• House Committee on Education and the Workforce
  • Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness
  • Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations
• House Committee on Government Reform
  • Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census
  • Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Drug Policy and Human Resources
  • Subcommittee on Government Management Finance and Accountability

More Background Data

• Background information on Virginia Foxx from Project Vote Smart

• Interest group scorecard ratings for Virginia Foxx from Project Vote Smart

• Voting record for Virginia Foxx from the Washington Post database

• Information on Virginia Foxx from Congress Merge

Wikipedia also has an article on Virginia Foxx. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.

Contact

DC Office:

503 Cannon House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: 202-225-2071

Fax: 202-225-2995

Web Email

Website

District Office- Boone:

240 Highway 105 Extension, Suite 200

Boone, NC 28607

Phone: 828-265-0240

Fax: 828-265-0390

District Office- Clemmons:

6000 Meadowbrook Mall, Suite 3

Clemmons, NC 27012

Phone: 336-778-2290

TollFree: 1-866-677-8968

Fax: 336-778-2290

Twitter

Virginia Foxx posts on Twitter at http://twitter.com/virginiafoxx/**

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Articles and Resources

• Official website
• Campaign website
• Open Secrets - 2006 congressional races database

Local blogs and discussion sites

• Swankville

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Career Fundraising

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Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act.Ironically, this one would create a bunch of unfunded mandates — but they would be mandates on federal agencies instead of states or private businesses. The specifics are too boring to go into, but basically it would require agencies to provide more reports on the financial impact on businesses and states of regulations and give businesses more opportunities for input.

It’s tempting to laugh this off as just another Republican exercise in daydreaming, like the 7,000th vote to repeal Obamacare. But political analysts are giving even odds that the Senate will fall into Republican hands

this November. These bills are a preview of what the GOP will do if it can. “We don’t see any indication that a Republican Senate wouldn’t pursue this dangerous and radical legislation,” says Narang. “We can’t count on the Senate playing that responsible role forever and maybe not even beyond this year.” If Obama faces a hostile Senate as well as House, he will have to give in on some things just to keep the government running. And then if a Republican wins the presidency in 2016 — watch out.

1      Education $61,368 $27,284 $34,084

3 7 Real Estate $27,314 $19,745 $7,569

4 10 Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $23,840 $12,840 $11,000

5 3 Lawyers/Law Firms $23,640 $12,140 $11,500

6 2 Health Professionals $21,808 $17,808 $4,000

7 51 Human Rights $20,750 $10,750 $10,000

8 29 Beer, Wine & Liquor $20,250 $12,750 $7,500

9 20 Food & Beverage $19,130 $4,630 $14,500

10 37 Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $18,000 $8,000 $10,000

11 16 Automotive $17,750 $10,750 $7,000

12 59 Air Transport $17,250 $250 $17,000

13 21 Commercial Banks $17,000 $2,000 $15,000

14 25 Health Services/HMOs $16,500 $7,000 $9,500

15 18 General Contractors $15,500 $11,000 $4,500

15 53 Telephone Utilities $15,500 $500 $15,000

17 22 Securities & Investment $13,750 $9,750 $4,000

18 23 Insurance $12,500 $2,500 $10,000

19 11 Business Services $12,196 $7,696 $4,500

20 27 Crop Production & Basic Processing

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Virginia Ann Foxx (née Palmieri;^[1][2] born June 29, 1943) is the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 5th congressional district, which encompasses much of the northwestern portion of the state and a portion of Winston-Salem. Foxx is a member of the Republican Party and was elected Secretary of the House Republican Conference by her colleagues on November 27, 2012.^[3]

Contents

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• 1 Early life, education and career
• 2 United States House of Representatives
  • 2.1 Committee assignments
  • 2.2 Political campaigns
    • 2.2.1 Republican Primary 2003-2004
    • 2.2.2 General election campaigns
  • 2.3 Tenure
    • 2.3.1 Hurricane Katrina
    • 2.3.2 Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities (HERO) Act
    • 2.3.3 Electronic Pay Stub Act
    • 2.3.4 Troubled Asset Relief Program
    • 2.3.5 Opposition to Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
    • 2.3.6 Health care debate
    • 2.3.7 Turkish American Caucus
    • 2.3.8 Opposition to birthright citizenship
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Early life, education and career

Foxx was born in The Bronx borough of New York City, the daughter of Dollie (Garrison) and Nunzio John Palmieri.^[4][not ^in ^citation ^given] She is of half Italian descent.^[5] She was reared in a rural area of Avery County, North Carolina. Foxx grew up in a poor family and first lived in a home with running water and electricity at 14 years old.^[6]While attending Crossnore High School in Crossnore, North Carolina, she worked as a janitor at the school and was the first in her family to graduate from high school.^[7] She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and later earned both a Master of Arts in college teaching (1972) and Ed.D(1985) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.^[2][8] With her husband, Virginia Foxx owned and operated a nursery and landscaping business.^[8]

Foxx worked as a research assistant and then an English instructor at Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute and Appalachian State University before moving into university administration. From 1987 until her 1994 entry into politics, she was president of Mayland Community College.^[9] Under North Carolina Governor James G. Martin, Foxx served as Deputy Secretary for Management.^[8]

From 1994 to 2004, Foxx served in the North Carolina Senate.

United States House of Representatives

Committee assignments

• Committee on Education and the Workforce
  • Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training (Chairwoman)
• Committee on Rules (Vice Chair)
  • Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process
• Italian American Congressional Delegation

Political campaigns

Republican Primary 2003-2004

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After 5th District Congressman Richard Burr decided he would run for the United States Senate, Foxx was first to join the race for congressman. North Carolina's 5th district is highly partisan. Because of this, the race quickly became one of the most expensive in North Carolina's history.

General election campaigns

Foxx was briefly targeted for defeat in the 2006 elections, but the Democrats' top choice, popular Winston-Salem mayorAllen Joines, decided not to run. Joines later said that he didn't have the stomach for the kind of race he felt it would take to defeat Foxx.^[10] Her 2006 opponent was Roger Sharpe, who was defeated. Roy Carter of Ashe County, North Carolina was Foxx's opponent for her seat in the 2008 election; she won by a substantial margin.In contrast to the primary, her general election campaign against Jim Harrell, Jr., which she easily won (59%-41%), was more cordial.

In November 2010, Foxx was reelected with about 65% of the vote.^[11]

Tenure

Hurricane Katrina

In September 2005, Foxx was one of 11 members of Congress to vote against^[12] the $51 billion aid package to victims ofHurricane Katrina.

Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities (HERO) Act

The first bill sponsored by Foxx to have been signed into law since 2006, the Hero Act, signed by President Bush on Memorial Day, 2006, allows U.S. troops to increase their retirement savings by investing a portion of their combat pay into Individual Retirement Accounts.

Electronic Pay Stub Act

The second bill sponsored by Foxx and subsequently signed into law is the Electronic Pay Stub Act which gives federal employees the choice of receiving their pay stubs electronically. This legislation is projected to save taxpayers millions of dollars. Studies have shown that it costs 10 times more to purchase and distribute paper stubs than it does to distribute electronic stubs.^[13] This bill was signed into law in October, 2008.^[14]

Troubled Asset Relief Program

Shortly after Congress approved the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Foxx identified a provision in the law that allowed her to force consideration of a measure to deny the second, $350 billion, tranche of the TARP bailout^{[citation needed]}. On November 19, 2008, she introduced H.J.Res. 101, which met all of the parliamentary requirements for consideration once the President requested the second tranche. In the new, 111th Congress, she reintroduced the measure as H.J.Res. 3, and shortly before leaving office, President Bush requested the second tranche, thereby activating the trigger allowing for her to commandeer the House floor, even though she was not a member of the majority party. Her measure passed the House 270-155; the act was never addressed in the Senate.^[15]

During an interview in 2007, Foxx was quoted as saying, "We have the best economy we have had in 50 years."^[16]

Opposition to Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

In April 2009, Foxx expressed opposition to the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, claiming that the murder of Matthew Shepardwas not a hate crime. While debating the act at the House of Representatives, she called the murder a "very unfortunate incident" but claimed "we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay." She ultimately called that allegation "a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing hate crimes bills."^[17] Media outlets including the New York Times,^[18] Washington Post,^[19] and Huffington Post^[20] criticized her statements.Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a congressional colleague, did the same.^[21] Democratic sources claimed that Matthew Shepard's mother was present at the time of Foxx's statements.^[21]

Foxx later retracted her comments, suggesting her use of the word "hoax" was in bad taste.^[22][23] She suggested that Shepard's murder was a tragedy and that his killers had received appropriate justice.^[22]

Health care debate

When commenting on the House version of the reform bill that funds counseling for end-of-life issues, Foxx said, "Republicans have a better solution that won't put the government in charge of people's health care," and "(The plan) is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government."^[24] She later said that "we have more to fear from the potential of the Affordable Health Care for America Act passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country."^[25][26]

Turkish American Caucus

Virginia Foxx is a member of Congressional Caucus on Turkey and Turkish Americans since 2005. Her son-in-law is a Turkish businessman, Mustafa Özdemir.^[27][28]

Opposition to birthright citizenship

In January 2013, Foxx co-sponsored legislation that would stop children born in the United States to undocumented parents from gaining citizenship.^[29]

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External links

• U.S. Congresswoman Virginia Foxx official U.S. House site
• Virginia Foxx for Congress
• Virginia Foxx at DMOZ
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Profile at Project Vote Smart
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Legislation sponsored at The Library of Congress
• Profile at SourceWatch

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