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Rep . Virginia Foxx , (R-NC), on the President blasting her statements on student loan debt and the rising costs of a college education.
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...
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...
The House voted Thursday to let Head Start ( search ) centers consider religion when hiring workers, overshadowing its moves to strengthen the preschool program's ac...
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...
Republican leaders on a House panel are requesting that the U.S. Department of Labor turn over all records involving a $495,000 contract funded through President Oba...
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-...
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 ...
Rep . Virginia Foxx (R-NC) challenges Tom
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...
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 ...
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...