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Virginia Ann Foxx (née Palmieri) (born June 29, 1943) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. She is a member of the Republican Party.
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Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades.
But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people getting for their money?Students with loans are graduating on average with more than $25,000 in debt. The federal government pours $140 billion annually into federal grants and loans. Unemployment remains high, yet there are projected shortages in many industries with some high-tech companies already complaining about a lack of highly trained workers.Meanwhile, literacy among college students has declined in the last decade, according to a commission convened during the George W. Bush administration that said American higher education has become "increasingly risk-averse, at times self-satisfied, and unduly expensive." About 40 percent of college students at four-year schools aren't graduating, and in two-year programs, only about 40 percent of students gra...WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a bill authorizing a $30 billion fund for community banks to increase lending to small businesses.Banks that tap the fund must...
Oil and gas companies appeared to score an all-out victory over the summer when President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling and congressional Democra...
The Senate on Thursday approved a major national service bill that triples the AmeriCorps program, despite concerns from some conservatives that it could allow polit...
A North Carolina congresswoman says she made a poor choice of words when she called the infamous murder of a gay Wyoming student a "hoax" to justify passing hate cri...
Some Americans are learning a jarring lesson about unemployment as they prepare their tax returns.At a time when the newly laid-off are swelling unemployment rolls t...
A Senate hate crimes bill that would extend federal protection to gay and transgender victims is rousing the ire of social conservatives who say their right to free ...
In a symbolic vote, the House of Representatives voted Thursday against releasing the second half of the financial rescue money Congress allocated last fall. The Sen...
Only six steps separate the top of the rostrum in the House of Representatives' chamber where the Speaker presides over Congressional proceedings and the hollowed-ou...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and defenders of the health care reform law unearthed an unexpected and temporary ally Monday night: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-...
You hear him at the end of nearly every NPR broadcast.The host wraps up the news. And then on comes the mystery voice, reading the underwriting credits. The voice ut...
It's ironic. But the Democrats' grip on the House of Representatives started to loosen even before the 2008 election.That's the election where Democrats rode Preside...
WASHINGTONWASHINGTON (AP) — A $30 billion government fund would be available to community banks to increase lending to small businesses under a bill passed by the Ho...
Rep . Virginia Foxx (R-NC) challenges Tom
A hunting bill passed by the House on Tuesday makes it harder to restrict hunting and fishing on public lands and ensures that the hunter's arsenal will continue to ...
John Boehner vowed early on that as speaker, he would let the House "work its will." At the end of his first year in charge of the fractious Republican-controlled ch...
The personal financial details of as many as 5,000 college students were temporarily laid bare for other students to view on the Education Department's direct loan w...
The personal financial details of as many as 5,000 college students were temporarily laid bare for other students to view on the Education Department's direct loan w...
WASHINGTON -- The personal financial details of as many as 5,000 college students were temporarily laid bare for other students to view on the Education Department's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A $30 billion government fund would be available to community banks to increase lending to small businesses under a bill passed by the House Thursd...
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