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The post office on Main Street will be renamed the Howard B. Pate Jr. Post Office, according to a bill to be signed by President Donald Trump. Pate, who served as postmaster for more than 30 years, died in late 2016 at the age of 90.
“It means a great deal,” said Pate’s son, Howard Pate III. “I believe it’s something he would be honored by.”
Local Rep. Richard Hudson, R-08, will visit Serenity House in Concord on Tuesday to discuss with local leaders ways to improve responses to the national opioid crisis.
These efforts range from ensuring successful implementation of the laws passed last year to continuing to investigate and identify additional solutions that will help those battling addiction. It also involves improving prevention efforts and supporting local officials, law enforcement and the health care professionals responding to the crisis.
FAYETTEVILLE, NC (WTVD) -- The chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs held an open session Friday in Fayetteville to discuss veterans care.
The session was called Partnering, Payment and Provider Access and it's really all in the name. The Committee held the session to discuss ways to improve VA programs, specifically the Choice program.
Bipartisan, bicameral legislation that U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced synchronizing the implementation of energy conservation requirements for residential ceiling fans to prevent higher consumer costs and market disruption has now been approved by both chambers of Congress and heads to the president’s desk to be signed into law.
The Ceiling Fan Energy Conservation Harmonization Act, S. 2030, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by voice vote on March 19. The U.S. Senate had passed the measure by unanimous consent on Dec. 21, 2017.
Representative Richard Hudson (R., N.C.), the sponsor of the national gun-carry reciprocity bill that passed the House earlier this year, met with the Washington Free Beacon to discuss the various pieces of gun legislation making their way through Congress right now.
WASHINGTON, DC – The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 2030, the Ceiling Fan Conservation Harmonization Act by voice vote. Nearly identical legislation authored by Rep. Richard Hudson (H.R. 3477) passed the committee in January.
Goodbye Washington. Hello Fayetteville.
The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will forego its typical meeting place on Capitol Hill later this week to host a special field hearing at Fayetteville Technical Community College.
The hearing, titled “Partnering, Payment and Provider Access: VA Community Care in North Carolina,” will begin at 10 a.m. Friday in FTCC’s General Classroom Building at 2817 Fort Bragg Road.