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Budd, Tillis & Edwards lead bipartisan group requesting more funding for hurricane victims

Republican North Carolina US Sens. Ted Budd, Thom Tillis, and Congressman Chuck Edwards, NC-11, are leading a bipartisan group of members of the Senate and House in sending a letter to President Joe Biden requesting that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), “immediately send a supplemental appropriation request to Congress to support the communities we represent, which were devastated after Hurricanes Helene and Milton.”

Theresa Opeka
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Extending McHenry’s powers as interim speaker is still a possibility

North Carolina Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry has served as interim speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives since Oct. 3 after former speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, was ousted. Given the failed attempts of fellow Reps. Steve Scalise, R- LA, and Jim Jordan, R-OH, to lock up a vote as the next speaker, how likely is it that McHenry will be given extended powers?

Theresa Opeka
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Biden’s State of the Union draws fire and praise from N.C. delegation

For President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, members of Congress filed into the U.S. House chamber, many wearing blue and yellow ribbons in support of Ukraine. Tuesday’s speech comes amid the highest inflation in 40 years, Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine, and just 31% of Americans satisfied with the direction of...

CJ Staff
Opinion

Democrats pushing for Sandhills congressional district

Democrats are likely to fare well in the court-ordered redraw of North Carolina’s congressional maps. Multiple sources tell Carolina Journal that new bipartisan congressional maps would result in seven solid GOP seats, five solid Democrat seats, and two swing districts. The General Assembly must approve new congressional and legislative maps by Friday to meet a...

Dallas Woodhouse

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