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The package includes direct stimulus payments to American families, another round of Paycheck Protection funding for small businesses, extension of the $300 per person pandemic-related unemployment benefits, funding for health care workers and vaccine distribution, and aid to some of the industries hardest hit by the pandemic. Read more »

Here are three bullet points of information to help better explain what is and what is NOT in the two bills that were voted on earlier this week.  One bill was funding of the military and other appropriations accounts that have not been controversial, at least so far.  The other bill consisted of all the other remaining appropriations items that was attached to the… Read more »

I have observed over the course of my life that most of us make our decisions based on the best information we have at the time that we have it.  As a member of Congress, I try — through these newsletters and in other forums — to share the facts to the best of my ability and provide my own perspective.  With every passing day, it seems as though there is… Read more »

Some good news items to report in today’s update: Nearly seven months to the day after President Trump launched Operation Warp Speed, a safe, effective vaccine is now being administered to the American people.  As we speak, millions of doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are being distributed around the country, utilizing plans months in the making… Read more »

In today's update: a new stay-at-home order in N.C., the latest on a COVID-19 vaccine and more. Read more »

While much of the nation is focused on the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and President Trump’s legal challenges regarding election irregularities in several states, Congress is still at work. Here’s an overview of the legislative agenda between now and the end of the year. Here are some of the major items I expect will see action on by year end. Read more »

Below is an update on the latest on the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as the most up to date information I have at hand regarding recounts and the status of legal actions taken pertaining to the Presidential election.  North Carolina yesterday recorded 3,288 new COVID-19 cases, the second-highest single day of new cases since the start of the pandemic behind only this past… Read more »

Earlier this week, pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech announced that its vaccine candidate against COVID-19 has been highly successful in its Phase 3 clinical study. Read more »

The media does not decide the outcome of our elections; the outcome will only be decided once the legal challenges underway have run their course and the electors have casts their votes. Read more »

Given where we find our electoral process at this point, it’s important that we stick to the facts of the process. Read more »