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CONCORD -- Exit 49 stakeholders continued their push for road and infrastructure improvements Monday, meeting with a U.S. congressman and warning that traffic gridlock could choke off the area’s economic success.
House Republicans demonstrated on Thursday their support for restoring funding to a U.S. military that could shrink to its lowest size in decades as global threats rise.
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are pushing back against a Navy review to potentially ban the sale of tobacco products on Navy and Marine Corps facilities, saying it violates servicemembers’ “rights.”
An appropriations request submitted to a Congressional committee would block the use of defense dollars to shutter Fort Bragg's 440th Airlift Wing.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- U.S. lawmakers pressed airport and security officials Friday about problems responding to the Los Angeles International Airport shooting last year and said the incident illuminated similar gaps that needed to be addressed at airports across the nation.
WASHINGTON— Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) today announced that Congressman Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) is the recipient of the 2014 ACI-NA Commissioners Congressional Leadership Award, in recognition of his support of the U.S. airport industry.
It's “a boondoggle of epic proportions,” an exasperated Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., told Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson at a recent congressional hearing, “if you're in the middle of a huge mess, you stop digging.”
LUMBERTON — Starting in the fall, the first group of 48 Robeson Community College students will begin their entry-level health care training as part of a new program funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. A total of 336 students will eventually participate in the Better Occupational Outcomes with Simulation Training Program.
Lawmakers in the House will travel to Los Angeles International Airport next Friday to conduct a hearing about the shooting that occurred there last fall.
The House Homeland Security Committee will hold a field hearing at the airport titled "Lessons from the LAX Shooting: Preparing for and Responding to Emergencies at Airports,” officials with the panel announced.
Four congressmen from North Carolina have sent a letter to the Department of Defense raising concerns over the possible shuttering of a Fort Bragg unit.