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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a “community engagement event” in North Carolina this summer, one of the next steps in the agency’s work on chemicals such as GenX and C8.
“I asked the Administrator to come to my district because I want him to hear directly from our community and because addressing the GenX issue remains a top priority from me,” Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N..C 8, said in the release. Hudson’s district runs from Concord to the Fayetteville area.
Bipartisan bills sponsored by U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, a Republican who represents the 8th District, passed the House of Representatives on Friday.
The bills are part of a package of legislation to combat the opioid crisis.
Hudson serves as a leader on the Energy and Commerce Committee, the panel tasked with writing most of the nation’s health care laws. Recently, the committee has worked to learn more about how and why the opioid epidemic happened and what legislative solutions can be pursued.
If a North Carolina congressman gets his way, the families of some special operations troops will have a tax break in their future.
Rep. Richard Hudson, a Republican whose district includes Fort Bragg, is pushing a measure to expand the Combat Zone Tax Exclusion, which protects the income of some deployed troops from federal income tax.
Hudson introduced a bill, the Special Operations Forces Tax Cut Act, earlier this year that would “modernize the law to reflect the current realities of warfare and ensure fairness for service members who serve in combat situations.”
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill to deal with the opioid crisis Friday and sent it to the Senate.
- House passes opioid crisis bill 396 to 14
- Bill had bipartisan support
- Senate working on its own version
The measure, which passed 396 to 14, is considered the broadest of the bills that have gone through the chamber.
The bill is a package of dozens of individual House bills.
It includes several reforms, including: