Honorable Virginia Foxx
United States Representative, North Carolina, Republican
Representative Foxx, of the Fifth District of North Carolina, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004. She served on the Watauga, North Carolina, Board of Education from 1976 to 1988 and in the North Carolina Senate from 1994 to 2004. She is Vice Chair of the Rules Committee, and sits on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. The following is from the March 15, 2013, House floor debate on H.R. 803, the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act. I thank the…
