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STAFF WRITERS LYNN BONNER AND JOHN FRANK
Published in: Under the Dome

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx railed against the state Department of Health and Human Services from the floor of the U.S. House chamber last week, saying it was wasting national taxpayers' money.

The new Medicaid claims system that Computer Sciences Corp. is building for the state is going to cost nearly twice as much as the contracted amount, according to a state audit.

The state awarded a $265 million contract to CSC in 2009.

North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said on the House floor Thursday that the federal government will be “shelling out” $200 million to cover the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service’s “incompetence” and “inability” to keep “a lid” on costs for an upgrade to their Medicaid billing system.

Written by Mike Raley/David Horn
Friday, 18 November 2011 11:47

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote Friday on a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced federal budget. North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxs said there are a couple of balanced budget amendments floating around Congress.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011 (Updated 5:46 am)
By WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL

CLEMMONS — Someone broke into the Yadkinville home of retired Army Lt. Col. Kenis Carter last year and stole the medals he earned during his service with the N.C. National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve.

With help from staff for U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, who represents the 5th District, Carter got those medals replaced three months ago. Foxx presented them to him Wednesday at a brief ceremony in her Clemmons office.

"I was having trouble getting my medals back," Carter said to Foxx.

By: JOHN HINTON | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: October 14, 2011

A bill overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. House of Representative would broaden the pool of surviving spouses of veterans eligible for low-interest Department of Veterans Affairs home loans.

The U.S. House voted 418-6 on Wednesday to approve the Disabled Veterans' Surviving Spouses Home Loans Act, which is part of the Veterans Opportunity to Work legislation.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 AT 10:21AM

If U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx has her way, congressional pensions will be a thing of the past.

Foxx, whose 5th District includes much of Iredell County, is the co-sponsor of legislation that would put an end to members of Congress participating in the federal government’s pension program.

By David N. Bass
August 25, 2011
RALEIGH — Republican U.S. Reps. Virginia Foxx and Patrick McHenry topped a congressional scorecard from the Washington, D.C.,-based conservative group Heritage Action for America.

Even though they were the highest ranking among the Tar Heel State’s 15-member House and Senate delegation, Foxx, of the 5th district, and McHenry, of the 10th district, barely eked out a B in the grading, earning 83 percent and 81 percent, respectively.

Last week the Department of Education released its final “gainful employment” regulations. These new rules will create piles of new red tape for career colleges and universities. Even worse, they will most likely result in fewer choices for students, lost opportunities for those seeking career andtechnical education and, ultimately, less innovation.

By Associated Press, Published: May 25
WASHINGTON — The House has passed legislation that would bar teaching health centers that receive federal funds under the new health care act from using the money to teach abortion techniques.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, the sponsor of the measure, says she wants to make it “crystal clear” that taxpayer money is not being used to train health care providers to perform abortions.

The North Carolina Republican’s proposal was offered as an amendment to a bill that puts funding restrictions on a teaching program in President Barack Obama’s health care act.