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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 7, 2023

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds. I think Mrs. McBath just made my argument for me. She said the American people are tired of being asked to give more, more, more. Well, in her district, she has almost 300,000 people without a…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-07
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from North Carolina? There was no…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time. As we all know, public confidence in American universities is in a free fall. According to Gallup, it has dropped almost 3 percentage points a year, on average, over the last 8 years. The…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of the DETERRENT Act, H.R. 5933. The Republican transparency and accountability agenda is on the march, and the Committee on Education and the…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 5933. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Perry The CHAIR. It is now…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, I move that the Committee do now rise. The motion was agreed to. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Perry) having assumed the chair, Mr. Moylan, Chair of the Committee of the Whole House on the…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Ted Budd
@tedbudd· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Madam President, the forces of evil and instability are on the march around the globe. In the Middle East, Hamas massacred more than 1,200 Israelis and 33 Americans. Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues to…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Ted Budd
@tedbudd· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I oppose S. 173 for a simple reason. It is unconstitutional in a number of ways. First, the bill infringes on the Second Amendment rights of law- abiding citizens by placing burdens on a…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Wiley Nickel
@wileynickel· Democratic · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on the urgent need to stand up for democracy at home and abroad. Yesterday, Members of Congress heard from our Secretary of State, our Secretary of Defense, and other senior leaders from the administration on…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, my amendment makes technical edits to the underlying bill while also clarifying certain language on gifts, enforcement, and the timeline for the subsequent Government Accountability Office study. The DETERRENT Act includes…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, I rise to speak in opposition to the amendment in the nature of a substitute from Mr. Scott. Instead of taking the threat of foreign influence seriously, this amendment is a mere slap on the wrist for campuses and includes…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, my friend from Virginia and I have been doing really very well in working in a bipartisan manner recently, and I hate for things to come between us, but his amendment in the nature of a substitute really does do a lot of damage…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 7, line 4, strike ``subsection (f)(1)'' and insert ``section 117D(a)(1)''. Page 17, beginning on…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Dec 6, 2023

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding and supporting this very technical amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx). The…

Congressional Record · 2023-12-06
David Rouzer
@davidrouzer· Republican · NC· Dec 5, 2023

Democrats broke the bank last Congress by spending over $550 billion in the name of environmental justice.

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David Rouzer
@davidrouzer· Republican · NC· Dec 5, 2023

It takes discipline. It takes commitment and public service that we all signed up to be here for.

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