North Carolina U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd are looking for answers about the level of fentanyl and other drugs coming into the country and communities across North Carolina. In a letter sent Thursday to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the senators listed key questions for Biden administration officials and want answers within a month.
U.S. Senators Ted Budd (R-NC) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), U.S. Representatives Deborah Ross (D-NC) and Valerie Foushee (D-NC), as well as 110 local businesses sent recommendations to U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to begin physical carrier delivery service to the Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus.
Senator Thom Tillis recently joined six Senate Banking Committee Republicans in urging the Biden Administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to halt the effective date of the Dodd-Frank Section 1071 small business data collection rule for all banks. The rule would require banks to collect sensitive personal data on small business owners when they seek a loan.
Senators Thom Tillis and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) recently introduced the bipartisan Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act of 2023. The legislation would require the U.S. Department of Justice, through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), to create immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum to address key issues raised by law enforcement officers and the communities they serve.
U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) led a letter with 16 Republican senators to the Biden Administration’s Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson expressing outrage at Thompson’s proposal to penalize Americans who have managed their money responsibly in order to subsidize high-risk borrowers with low credit.
In 1956, Congress passed legislation recognizing the Lumbee tribe, but the bill included an unfair caveat that denied the Lumbee benefits that every other federally-recognized tribe receives.
U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is awarding the City of Boiling Spring Lakes $13.4 million in federal funding for necessary dam repairs from Hurricane Florence in 2018.
U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues introduced legislation to prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from prioritizing the needs of illegal immigrants over our nation’s veterans as the administration expects a surge at the southern border after the Trump-era immigration policy Title 42 is lifted.
The United States Senate voted 53 to 47 Monday, April 4, to discharge the Senate Judiciary Committee from further consideration of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. This after the committee deadlocked along party lines with a tie vote of 11 to 11.
Politicians throughout North Carolina have responded to the events that unfolded on August 26, 2021, in Afghanistan that left 13 US service members dead and 18 injured. President Joe Biden addressed the nation in a televised response.
Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and nine of his colleagues joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to re-introduce a constitutional amendment that would limit the Supreme Court of the United States to nine justices.