Virginia Foxx

Foxx, Scott Introduce Transparency in Billing Act

Position: Representatives Foxx and Scott support legislation requiring hospitals to provide transparent billing information to patients and payers, particularly regarding site-of-service charges when hospitals acquire independent physician offices.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on her introduction of the Transparency in Billing Act alongside Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA). “Patients should always have the information they need to make informed health care decisions – this includes understanding the true costs associated with care. Far too often, many are hit with hidden upcharges and extraneous fees without even knowing it – this is an issue that should be rectified immediately,” said Representative Foxx. “I’m proud to put forward this bipartisan solution with Representative Scott to increase transparency and provide a positive course correction that puts patients first.” "We are seeing a growing trend of hospitals acquiring independent physician offices and then charging patients higher prices even if the care they receive is essentially identical to what they received before the hospitals acquired the office. The Transparency in Billing Act prohibits hospitals from billing consumers or private health plans unless they provide sufficient information to allow payers to determine the site at which the care is provided. The American people deserve to know the full picture of the prices they are asked to pay. This bill will help ensure that health care costs are driven by those who provide the highest-quality services—not by those with the most market power,” said Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce. Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Foxx Statement on U.S. Military Combat Operations in Iran

Position: Representative Foxx expresses support for U.S. military combat operations against Iran, characterizing the operation as justified response to Iranian terrorism and a positive development for regional stability and American security.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the successful U.S. military combat operation in Iran that has crippled Iran’s regime of terror and opened a new door for peace within the Middle East. “Deceased senior leaders of the Iranian regime have reaped what they have sown – their barbarism, terrorism, and blighting of international diplomacy are at an end. Over the course of decades, Iran and its numerous proxies acted with impunity and have murdered Americans, marred stability within the Middle East, and attempted to sow fear in the hearts of millions through brute force. Their reign of terror has been snuffed out like a candle – today is a new day, and one that serves as a turning point for the Iranian people who deserve unbridled freedom on their own terms. Thanks to the bold leadership and resolve of the United States, our ally Israel, and partners in the Middle East, a new opportunity for peace has been kindled. The nations of the world should embrace the decimation of the chief sponsor of global terrorism. Our alliances are being secured. But most of all, American lives, the security of our troops in the region, and the interests of our nation are protected through this operation. May God bless our servicemembers, our allies, and our entire nation.” Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Foxx Praises Significant Peace Agreement Between the State of Israel and Hamas

Position: Representative Foxx expresses support for the Israel-Hamas peace agreement brokered by President Trump, stating it opens the door for peace in the Middle East and will help Israeli families achieve healing and reunification.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on phase one of the historic peace agreement – brokered by President Trump – that was agreed to by the State of Israel and Hamas. “Blessed are the peacemakers. This new agreement has undeniably opened the door for peace within the middle east – we certainly have President Trump to thank for his continued, diligent efforts,” said Representative Foxx. “Israeli families have suffered immeasurable grief in the past two years from the carnage and heinous atrocities that occurred on October 7, 2023. They deserve a sense of peace and healing – they also deserve to be reunited with their loved ones immediately. I pray that this agreement will bring a long lasting, always sought for, peace for the Jewish people –harmony must be returned to their daily lives.” Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Foxx Introduces SOAR Act Improvements Act

Position: Representative Foxx supports reauthorization and targeted improvements to the Opportunity Scholarship Program, a federally funded school choice program in Washington, D.C. that provides scholarships to low-income students to attend private schools.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after introducing the SOAR Act Improvements Act, legislation that makes targeted improvements to the only federally funded school choice program in the nation to help children from low-income families in Washington, D.C. succeed. “School choice has the power to improve the lives and trajectories of our nation’s future leaders – there’s no question or debate about it. Washington, D.C. is a prime example of where school choice is working in our nation, and countless young men and women from low-income families are receiving a quality education that will propel them to new heights,” said Representative Foxx. “The SOAR Act Improvements Act helps reauthorize the District’s successful Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) that provides low-income children scholarships so they can attend a private school in the District. This bill reauthorizes the program for an additional seven years while providing program administrators increased flexibility to run the program efficiently. It also improves how funds appropriated from Congress are allocated within the program. This is an opportunity to do the right things for the right reasons, and I look forward to this legislation’s full consideration in the House.” Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Foxx, Gottheimer Introduce Bill to Hold Higher Education Accountable for BDS Activity

Position: Representatives Foxx and Gottheimer introduced legislation that would prohibit colleges and universities from receiving federal student aid if they engage in boycotts, divestment, or sanctions (BDS) activities targeting Israel. The sponsors characterize BDS as antisemitic and argue the measure is necessary to protect Jewish students on campus.

BANNER ELK, N.C. – Today, Representatives Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced the bipartisan Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, legislation that prohibits colleges and universities from receiving federal student aid if they engage in commercial and academic boycotts dictated by those in the boycott-sanction-divest (BDS) movement. “The antisemitic rot that has corroded college campuses must be eradicated – enough is enough. The safety and security of Jewish students, faculty, and staff should never be threatened under any circumstances. If an institution of higher education chooses to capitulate to the caustic BDS movement, there will be consequences – starting with this bipartisan legislation,” said Representative Foxx. “The goal of the BDS movement is the destruction of the democratic State of Israel, America’s critical ally in the global fight against terror. BDS has no place on college campuses or anywhere in our country. At a time when our Jewish students are facing death threats, being physically assaulted, and blocked from going to class simply for who they are, we must do everything possible to ensure they can learn safely, speak freely, and get the education they deserve,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “That’s why I’m proud to help introduce the bipartisan Protect Economic Freedom Act to give the Department of Education a critical new tool to combat the dangerous, hate-fueled, antisemitic BDS movement on college campuses. We cannot allow antisemitism to run rampant and endanger Jewish students, staff, and faculty. Now more than ever, we must stand up and protect our Jewish community.” The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act would: Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Foxx Issues Warning to Columbia University Administrators

BANNER ELK, N.C. – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding Columbia University’s $200 million agreement with the Trump administration. “Last April, on the steps of Low Library at Columbia University, I stood alongside Speaker Johnson, several of my Republican colleagues, and Jewish students to call attention to the university’s invertebrate response to antisemitic demonstrations and egregious lack of protections given to Jewish students, faculty and staff. “The $200 million agreement between Columbia University and the Trump administration is certainly a good start, and I commend everyone involved in holding the university to account. However, Columbia is not absolved of its sins – its atonement is not said and done with simply through this agreement. The university has a very long way to go if it is to ever retain a shred of credibility or respect in the eyes of many – every time the university’s administrators move a muscle, I will be watching.” Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Foxx Supports Ongoing Efforts to Push Back Against Iran’s Despotic Political Regime

Position: Congresswoman Foxx expresses support for Israel's defensive actions against Iran and calls for U.S. support for the Iranian people's pursuit of freedom from their government's authoritarian rule.

BANNER ELK, N.C. – Today, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in support of Israel’s deterrence of Iran’s ongoing attacks and the Iranian people’s pursuit of freedom from their country’s own tyrannical government. “Iran’s political regime continues to pose a significant threat to peace, stability, and civil society across the entire world – Israel’s recent actions, in continued defense of its people, remain entirely justified. At the very same time, we must also recognize that the Iranian people have sought freedom from their own government’s tyranny for far too long. The United States has the imperative of supporting our longstanding ally, Israel, and supporting the Iranian people as they pursue a future that is not blighted by totalitarianism brought about by despots who control their government.” Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

DOGE is a harbinger of necessary change

Position: The release expresses support for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its efforts to reduce federal spending, eliminate waste and fraud, and increase government accountability and transparency. The author argues that such fiscal oversight is a necessary and worthy endeavor that should receive bipartisan support.

Their reactions and commentary then, as well as now, are entirely risible. With the copious amounts of haranguing against DOGE that have flooded the news cycle for months, Americans were undeniably subjected to misinformation hour after hour. That haranguing continues to this day, and one begins to wonder why there are so many who are adamantly averse to a bright light being shined upon the federal government’s own corners of fiscal irresponsibility. Since the beginning of the year, DOGE’s efforts have amounted to an ongoing holistic cleanse of Washington. We all understand that government must always remain accountable to the people. Every public servant, regardless of what political banner he or she chooses to carry, should support this very simple aim. However, what I have seen and heard from my Democrat colleagues in Washington in response to DOGE is entirely bewildering. Rather than supporting the right sizing of the federal government — and taking a scalpel to waste, fraud, and abuse — they are taking to social media, television, and to the House floor to peddle misinformation and falsehoods that are intended to scare Americans. Here’s the stone-cold truth that you will not hear from Democrats in Washington: DOGE is a long-awaited antiserum that will work to pare back the federal government in the right ways and for the right reasons. The act of restoring accountability and transparency is an endeavor that is always worthy of bipartisan consensus and support — I certainly believe that to be true. Without an honest, surgically precise audit of the federal government’s own actions, how can Americans truly know where their hard-earned tax dollars are really going, and what they’re being used for? This is a pertinent question that is worthy of an answer. While efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse continue at the federal level, I would be sorely remiss if I did not recognize the North Carolina General Assembly for its work in emulating DOGE’s mission and work. State-level undertakings to make government closest to the people more accountable and transparent are positive and worthy of commendation. President Trump’s abiding investment in DOGE has inspired states to pause and examine their own actions under a microscope — with the intention of finding opportunities for savings, uprooting inefficient programs and services, and finding proactive ways to serve the people in a far more efficient capacity. Despite what the media will want you to believe, this is an exercise in upholding and fostering good governance. DOGE is a harbinger for necessary change, and we ought to welcome it. Published in the Carolina Journal Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Discharge petitions are tools of the minority, not the majority

Position: The release opposes a discharge petition that would establish proxy voting for pregnant members and their spouses, arguing it violates the Hastert Rule and Republican governing principles, and represents an unconstitutional procedure that mirrors Nancy Pelosi's pandemic-era proxy voting scheme.

In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, adopting tactics of the minority will never yield substantive wins for the majority. Caving to that temptation will backfire and undercut our own ability to govern and legislate. The agenda of President Donald Trump, along with the mandate that was given to this majority, will be circumvented entirely – a result that should never occur. Discharge petitions, one such tactic of the minority, have never been, nor ever will be, viable avenues to secure any manner of conservative wins when we are in the majority. In fact, discharge petitions are in direct violation of one of Republicans’ own governing principles in the People’s House: the Hastert Rule. The Hastert Rule, when Republicans are in the majority, instructs the Speaker of the House to only bring a bill to the floor only “if the majority of the majority” are in direct support of it. Discharge petitions are nothing more than a last-ditch demarche that sidesteps this governing principle, and the authority vested in the House’s committees, by forcing a bill’s way to the floor for an up or down vote. We saw this happen on Valentine’s Day in 2002 when the so-called “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act” barged its way, via a discharge petition, to the House floor under then-Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican. In October 2015, the Export Import Bank Reauthorization was brought to the floor the exact same way – and another Republican, John Boehner, was speaker at the time. Both bills passed and left Republicans with a black eye and a broken nose. These are two examples in recent history that discharge petitions yielded outcomes that were antithetical to Republican principles and Republican governance. Legislative history spells this out with blinding clarity, and we ought to pay attention. Fast forward to now, as the House is about to be force-fed another discharge petition that will stab our conservative governance in the back, if it is not defeated. This discharge petition, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), would mandate that the House of Representatives permit proxy voting for pregnant, female members, or their spouses. While I am sure that those who support this change have good intentions, they’re doing two things: throwing their weight behind an unconstitutional procedure and unilaterally endorsing the same proxy voting scheme that Nancy Pelosi forced upon the House less than five years ago. And where does it end? The temptation to continue to expand the use of proxy voting for any purpose will be too great to ignore. Voting in favor of this discharge petition is a surefire way of dissolving our own Republican governance in real time and steeping ourselves in a vat of hypocrisy. Proxy voting in committees was banned in 1995 by Republicans – and when we were given the majority back in 2023, the first action we took was to remove this unconstitutional scheme from the House floor. When we adopt tactics of the minority, while we ourselves are in control, all we do is shoot ourselves in the foot. Furthermore, it diminishes our ability to deliver for Americans and evaporates our unity and collective resolve in real time. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “Congress” is defined as the “act of coming together and meeting”. Proxy voting runs afoul of that definition, and it damn sure flies in the face of the sacred document that we take an oath to protect and defend. Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos

Foxx Supports Legislation to Help Western North Carolina Businesses

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after signing on as an official cosponsor to the Helene Small Business Recovery Act, legislation authored by Representative Chuck Edwards that provides a technical fix to loan duplications of benefits issued for survivors of Hurricane Helene: “Following a disaster, the federal government should be a support system for states and not run interference. The Helene Small Business Recovery Act addresses a crucial need for businessowners to get the support they need from the federal government without facing bureaucratic delays or roadblocks. I’m proud to serve as an Original Cosponsor of Representative Edwards’ legislation and to continue our efforts in helping western North Carolina get back on its feet.” Virginia Foxx (@repvirginiafoxx) • Instagram photos and videos