Virginia Foxx

Attack on Antiquity

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Preserve Land Freedom for America Act, National Parks, Antiquities Act, Virginia Foxx, Conservation, Politics News

This is a case of Republicans yearning to separate Obama from previous White House occupants in a pejorative way as part of their political vendetta against him. It is true there is nothing new about Congress' periodic push back against unilateral presidential authority to create national monuments.

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Virginia Foxx: First Woman to Ever Pay for College

Edward Murray | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Occupy Chapel Hill, Federal Student Loans, Occupy North Carolina, Virginia Foxx, Student Loan Bubble, College Tuition, Higher Education Cost, Political Humor, Higher Education Tuition, Student Loans, Virginia Foxx Student Loans, Federal Loans, Education News

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx is the chairwoman of the Higher Education & Workforce Training Subcommittee. It turns out that Virginia Foxx knows about as much about the specifics behind the student loan crisis as Red Foxx, who is dead.

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8 Ways The Government Is Grappling With Student Loans

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.30.2012

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) thinks Congress should change the law to allow borrowers to have their debt from private student loans wiped clean when fili...

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Bill Would Boost Access to VA Loan Program for Surviving Military Spouses

Chris Birk | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Surviving Spouses, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Loan Guaranty Program, Virginia Foxx, Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, VA Loans, Business News

Thousands of surviving spouses currently ineligible for VA home loan benefits would gain access to the program if a U.S. House bill passed Wednesday b...

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Vote To Cut Food Aid Splits GOP

Politico | David Rogers | Posted 08.16.2011

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Already on the defensive, scores of House Republicans joined with Democrats on Wednesday to beat back repeated conservative attempts to make still dee...

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Virginia Foxx Proposes To Cut Breast-Feeding Support Funds

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Infants, Women Infants Children, Wic, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Breastfeeding, Virginia Foxx, WIC Cuts, Politics News

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) introduced an amendment to a House spending bill yesterday that would zero out funding for a peer counseling and support p...

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House Votes To Ban Funding For Abortion Training

AP | By JIM ABRAMS | Posted 07.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to ban teaching health centers from using federal money to train doctors on how to perform abortions, the late...

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Congress Puts a Fox in Charge of the Higher Ed Henhouse

Bob Samuels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Higher Education, Virginia Foxx, College News

It is now clear that the new Republican leadership has purposely put in power people who will try to dismantle any program supported by the Obama administration.

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Republicans FAIL To Defund NPR

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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With additional reporting by Ryan Grim. WASHINGTON -- The Republican campaign to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was...

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Why Virginia Foxx Won Blue America's Craziest Republican Contest This Month

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crazy Extremists, Billy Kennedy, Virginia Foxx, Campaign Finance Reform, Citizens United, Nc-05, Politics News

At the end of July, Blue America and our pals at the Americans Fir America PAC launched the first in a series of videos that highlights what kind of...

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Presenting the Immigration Hall of Shame

Amy Novick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lamar Smith, Immigration, Immigrants, Brian Bilbray, Tom Tancredo, Steve King, Immigration Reform, Jan Brewer, Chuck Grassley, J.D. Hayworth, Sharron Angle, Arizona Immigration Law, Virginia Foxx, Gene Taylor, Politics News

We unveiled this week our Hall of Shame, ten of the biggest obstructionists to immigration reform who are running or have run for office this year.

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Republicans Voting 'No' On Health Care Reform At Their Own Peril

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republican challengers may see a Democratic vote for health care reform as a genuine opportunity to unseat an incumbent, but Republicans could find th...

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Billy Kennedy Will Be Declaring His Candidacy For Virginia Foxx's Seat On Monday

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm wondering if Billy Kennedy may not be the kind of extraordinary person -- someone who will go to Washington and never really become one of them.

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Virginia Foxx: Obama Lectured Us. But I Got His Autograph

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Flame-throwing conservative Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) was not a big fan of President Barack Obama's appearance before the House Republican caucus re...

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Rep. Foxx Cites Fake Quote, Claims Obama Campaigned on Making the Country Worse

Matt Finkelstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Pied Piper, Obama Right-Wing Smears, Health Care Reform, North Carolina, Medicare, Virginia Foxx, Barack Obama, House Health Care Bill, Obama Smears, Politics News

During the health debate, Foxx quoted from an anti-Obama poem called "The Pied Piper" that doesn't appear to be real, which went viral in the right-wing blogosphere earlier this year.

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Glenn Beck Compares Derailing Health Care To Preparing For 9/11

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The latest lunatic fringe talking point equates Democratic-led efforts at health care reform with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil. During...

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Virginia Foxx: Health Care Reform Is A Bigger Threat Than "Any Terrorist Right Now In Any Country" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) claimed on Monday that health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism -- the latest incendiary comment from a Republ...

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Deriliction of Representation. Unreal Video.

Mike Stark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darryl Issa, Sen. Jim DeMint, Media, Health Care, Virginia Foxx, Joe Wilson, Steve King, Politics News

I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing. I came up with two simple questions.

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Bachmann: "Prayer And Fasting" Will Defeat Health Care Reform

Minnesota Independent | Paul Demko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: God, Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Healthcare Debate, Townhall, Virginia Foxx, Bachmann Prayer and Fasting, Prayer and Fasting, Politics News

On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded "teletownhall" meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed "Keeping Faith w...

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Countering the Lies about Health Care Reform

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Tom Cole, Virginia Foxx, Palin Death Panels, Palin Obama Death Panel, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Politics News

Let's make sure seniors and all Americans know the truth about health care reform and that lies are spread to block real progress.

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The Difference Between Criticism and Hate Speech

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.

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Comical Posturing on Israel

David A. Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Keep talking, Mr. Cantor. You're just helping to keep Jews pulling the lever for Democrats.

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Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evan Bayh, Republican Lies, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Health Insurance, Mary Landrieu, Obama Health Care, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Robots, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.

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Virginia Foxx Warns That Health Care Reform Will Involve Widespread Elder Murder

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The contest to be the member of Congress saying the dumbest possible things about health care has just gotten ratcheted up about a thousand more notch...

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Obstructionist Lawmakers Harm Animals and the Economy

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thad McCotter, Raul Grijalva, Nick Rahall, John Campbell, Tax Dollars, John Boehner, Wild Mustangs, Dan Burton, Wild Horses, Ed Whitfield, Virginia Foxx, Fiscal Responsibility, Elton Gallegly, Steve King, Politics News

If they were truly concerned about the economy, self-described fiscal conservatives like Boehner, Bishop, and King should have been the first to line up today in support of the mustang legislation.

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