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October 1, 2016

FAYETTEVILLE - The floodwaters that covered parts of Fayetteville have receded now.

However, there's plenty of damage left behind and that prompted a visit from two congressmen on Saturday.

They came to survey that damage and get an idea if it will require Federal assistance for the cleanup.

Time Warner Cable reporter David Ivey has more.

October 1, 2016
FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) -- Days after historic flooding ravaged Fayetteville, cleanup is just beginning for many businesses and people.

Medical Arts Pharmacy off Murchison Road is a mess after the flood swept through - destroying everything. Christina Washington with the pharmacy said medical equipment and thousands of dollars of prescriptions had to be thrown out.
"We didn't know if was going to rain 9 or 10 inches," she said.
October 1, 2016

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) – On Saturday, two United States representatives and Fayetteville Mayor Nat Robertson toured areas in the city that were impacted by flooding following heavy rains Wednesday and Thursday in central and eastern North Carolina.

U.S. Reps. Richard Hudson (NC-08) and Robert Pittenger (NC-09) joined Robertson to visit the areas impacted by the rains and to survey damaged areas around the city.

September 28, 2016
Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) joined Reps. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26), Kathy Castor (FL-14) and Gene Green (TX-29), to introduce the bipartisan, bicameral MISSION ZERO Act to assist assigning Department of Defense (DoD) trauma surgeons to civilian trauma centers filling a gap in care.
September 24, 2016

One of Rowan’s representatives in Congress on Thursday celebrated a federal court’s ruling in favor of county commissioners’ prayer practices.

Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8, led 17 former and current members of Congress in filing an amicus brief before the 4th Circuit Court. The brief filed by congressional representatives encouraged the court to rule in favor of Rowan.

When the court overturned a previous ruling this week, Hudson released a statement praising the decision.

September 21, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) released the following statement after his bipartisan bill, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act, was approved by the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Issues:Health Care
September 21, 2016
Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) released the following statement on the events in Charlotte.
September 19, 2016
Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) released the following statement after the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Rowan County in Lund v. Rowan County.
September 19, 2016
SALISBURY — In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled in favor of Rowan County in a prayer lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
The ruling comes after months of deliberation. Oral arguments were held on Jan. 27.
Previously, North Carolina’s U.S. Middle District Court ruled that Rowan County’s prayer practices at the beginning of each board of commissioners meetings were unconstitutional. At issue in the case is that commissioners themselves gave sectarian prayers at the start of each meeting.
September 19, 2016

WASHINGTON D.C. — After dining blocks from the White House, rubbing shoulders with past and present House speakers and checking out a Washington Nationals game, Capitol Hill made quite an impression this week on a delegation of Scotland County leaders.

Those same local leaders hope they made an impression on Capitol Hill.

The group of 11 county civic and business leaders were in Washington for the two-day North Carolina Business and Economic Development Summit.