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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:30 PM

Virginia Foxx

Type: Person

Name: Virginia Foxx

Title: Congressman - North Carolina (USA)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 6 Documents (in Politics)

Virginia Foxx Makes An Elephant Of Herself

I would have said Foxx (R-NC) made an ass of herself, but we won't malign that noble beast here. Watch it: FOXX: ... and actually the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this, in this country, uh, just as we were the ... [Daily Kos - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Virginia Foxx, Civil Rights, Jesse Helms

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 4 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Republican Party (US)

Virginia Foxx and the GOP civil rights champions of yore - Today, she'd know them as RINOs

'They love to engage in revisionist history,' Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said on the floor of the U.S. Congress, Nov. 19. She was referring to Democrats as she had risen to speak in opposition to an environmental protection measure intended to safeguard ... [Care2 - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Civil Rights, Republican Party (US), Virginia Foxx

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Foxx's notion of 'revisionist history'

FOXX'S NOTION OF 'REVISIONIST HISTORY'.... On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx, a right-wing Republican from North Carolina, boasted of her party's alleged progressive history on civil rights. "Just as we were the people who passed the civil ... [Political Animal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Virginia Foxx, Civil Rights

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Republican House Member Misrepresents History On Civil Rights Legislation

Republican House member (from North Carolina) Virginia Foxx, it is pretty safe to say, has never met a fact she could not challenge. This morning, Rep. Foxx launched an attack on what she calls “revisionist history” about which political party should ... [The Moderate Voice - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Civil Rights, 1960s, Virginia Foxx

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 3 Documents

Health Care Reform Bigger Threat to Freedom than Any Terrorist

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) does it again. One day she's calling the murder of and the next she's pronouncing That's right Virginia! Virginia Foxx went there.Please, North Carolina--stop voting for her! Foxx is an ignorant, shameful embarrassment ... [Care2 - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Virginia Foxx, Health Care Reform, Terrorists

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 6 Documents

Nancy Pelosi

GOP watch: Unveiling their health plan

“After months of criticizing Democrats' health-care proposals without offering one of their own, House Republicans are preparing to unveil a reform bill this week to compete with the majority's ideas,” the Washington Post reports. “Having lambasted the ... [MSNBC - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Virginia Foxx, Alan Grayson, Congressional Budget Office, Nancy Pelosi

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Foxx: Healthcare bill bigger threat than terrorism

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., has never been known for being a moderate, or for holding her tongue. (As my friend Steve Benen observes, "She's a deather, a tenther, and [she] recently boasted, 'There are no Americans who don't have healthcare.'") But ... [Salon: War Room - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Virginia Foxx, Health Care, Terrorism

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents

Virginia Foxx: Health Care Reform Is A Bigger Threat Than "Any Terrorist Right Now In Any Country" (VIDEO)

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) claimed on Monday that health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism -- the latest incendiary comment from a Republican lawmaker on the supposedly dire consequences of the legislation. Speaking on the House ... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Virginia Foxx, Health Care Reform, Terrorists

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

A GOP Whopper About Health Care Coverage

We weren’t the only folks curious about the morning’s claim from Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) that the GOP’s health reform bill covers more uninsured Americans than the Democrats’ proposal. The fact checkers at Media Matters were also left scratching their ... [The Washington Independent - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Virginia Foxx, Republican Party (US), Health Care, Health Insurance

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 2 Documents

McMorris Rodgers: health reform is "internal" terrorist attack

A second to Virginia Foxx's health reform- terrorism charge, House Republican Conference Vice Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), who is leading this weeks campaign by GOP women to attack the House Democratic health care bill, on Tuesday compared ... [Politico - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Acts of Terrorism, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Virginia Foxx

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Lawmakers fund 'low-priority' airport projects

Congress has steered $1.1 billion since 2001 to favored projects at airports that cater to private planes, much of it going to low-priority improvements or to benefit corporate jets, a USA TODAY analysis shows. PET PROJECTS: Package carriers benefit at ... [USA Today - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Lowe's, Virginia Foxx, Federal Aviation Administration

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 2 Documents

Holocaust Imagery at Protest Organized by Michele Bachmann

...via Matthew Yglesias, this image of Holocaust victims was on display at today's 'House Call' protest organized by Michele Bachmann and the Republican House Leadership:Take a closer look:Keep in mind that this wasn't some Glenn Beck-organized 9/12 stunt. ... [AlterNet.org - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Michele Bachmann, Holocaust, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Jean Schmidt, Sue Myrick

Quotes

Furthermore, on the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said, "let's get real... this bill is just a time consumer because the democrats have no real legislation to offer. they know this bill can't go into effect by december, but they need something to keep us here this week because they are trying to twist arms to get the votes for the health care bill."

Houses passes credit card fix [MSNBC - 11/05/2009]

From Media Matters : On November 2, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said on the House floor regarding health care legislation before the House: "i believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country." Following Foxx's statement, Fox News Glenn Beck compared health care reform to 9-11, and talk radio host Neal Boortz and the Fox Nation promoted Foxx's...

Following GOP Rep. Foxx's lead, media conservatives compare health care reform to terrorism [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/03/2009]

...‘We expect it to be ready in the next several days,’ Boehner said.” "i believe that the greatest fear that we all should have ... to our freedom comes from this room, this very room, and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill" Representative Virginia Foxx said on the House floor...

GOP watch: Unveiling their health plan [MSNBC - 11/03/2009]

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Virginia Foxx and the GOP civil rights champion... [Care2 - 4 hours ago]
Cafferty: Health bill interest waning? [CNN - 11/19/2009]
History Redone: GOP Passed Civil Rights Act? [US News - 11/19/2009]
GOP's Foxx: Republicans Passed Civil Rights Act [US News - 11/19/2009]
Religious Freedom Group, GOP Seek Dismissal of ... [CNS News - 11/17/2009]
ACLJ Represents 44 Members of Congress in Askin... [Forbes.com - 11/16/2009]
Lost but not out [The Hill - 11/11/2009]
Wasserman Schultz: Foxx, Bachmann "repulse... [Politico - 11/10/2009]
Politiquotes: The week in one-liners [Politico - 11/09/2009]
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials... [AlterNet.org - 11/09/2009]
Why is Republican Leadership Embracing Nutjobs? [411mania.com - 11/08/2009]
Tragedy at Ft. Hood Trumps the Tea Party [The Nation - 11/07/2009]
Obamacare is worse than terrorism [WorldNetDaily - 11/07/2009]
GOPer encouraged by Dems' lack of healthcare votes [The Hill - 11/06/2009]
Sketch [Washington Post - 11/06/2009]
Holocaust Imagery at Protest Organized by Miche... [AlterNet.org - 11/05/2009]
On the Hill, Protesters Chant 'Kill the Bill' [New York Times - 11/05/2009]
Yes, Virginia Foxx [American Spectator - 11/05/2009]
Tea partiers hit Capitol [Politico - 11/05/2009]
A GOP Whopper About Health Care Coverage [The Washington Independent - 11/05/2009]
The Day Ahead: November 5 [American Spectator - 11/05/2009]
GOP Health Bill Would Leave 52 Million Uninsured [The Washington Independent - 11/05/2009]
Houses passes credit card fix [MSNBC - 11/05/2009]
More On The GOP Health Bill [Kaiser Health News - 11/04/2009]
Health Care Reform Bigger Threat to Freedom tha... [Care2 - 11/04/2009]
McMorris Rodgers: health reform is "intern... [Politico - 11/03/2009]
The Note: Independents Rule Election Day? [ABC News - 11/03/2009]
The Note: GOP May Sweep -- But Independents Rul... [ABC News - 11/03/2009]
GOP watch: Unveiling their health plan [MSNBC - 11/03/2009]
Independents’ Day: GOP has high expectations, b... [ABC News - 11/03/2009]

Blogs

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On Civil Rights, Virginia Foxx Revises History ... [The Moderate Voice - 11/20/2009] Is Rep. Virginia Foxx crazy? I don’t know, but she certainly says some crazy things. Consider a couple of things she said yesterday: – “Actually, the GOP has been ...
Republican House Member Misrepresents History O... [The Moderate Voice - 11/20/2009] Republican House member (from North Carolina) Virginia Foxx, it is pretty safe to say, has never met a fact she could not challenge. This morning, Rep. Foxx launched ...
Virginia Foxx Makes An Elephant Of Herself [Daily Kos - 11/20/2009] I would have said Foxx (R-NC) made an ass of herself, but we won't malign that noble beast here. Watch it: FOXX: ... and actually the GOP has been the leader ...
Matthews Insults GOP Congresswoman as 'Replican... [NewsBusters.org blogs - 11/19/2009] Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, took GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to task for claiming that Republicans "passed civil rights bills in the sixties" as ...
Virginia Foxx Passed Civil Rights All By Hersel... [Wonkette - 11/19/2009] Unfortunate Rep. Virginia Foxx, who throws words like “tarbaby” around in casual discourse, for some reason said this about the Democrats today: “Just as we were ...

Audio/Video

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Akin: A Strange Year [Rep. Todd Akin - YouTube Channel - 11/20/2009]
Rep. Virginia Foxx on Health Care Reform [CSPAN - YouTube - 11/02/2009]
Foxx talks healthcare reform with Rep. Fleming [Rep. Virginia Foxx - YouTube Channel - 10/20/2009]
More jobs, not more government [Rep. Virginia Foxx - YouTube Channel - 10/07/2009]
Akin: CHILLING! [Rep. Todd Akin - YouTube Channel - 09/24/2009]

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