Walter Jones News

Specter reported that the trip cost $2,800 but the true cost was $70,000+ when you factor in the cost of military air travel.

America's population grew Saturday as thousands of people nationwide became new U.S. citizens during naturalization ceremonies.

Sometimes it pays to be a "pack rat"....especially when it comes to tracing the history of a particular issue.

Delegation gets health care donations Congressmen are reaping millions in contributions from major health care interests, just as they begin to debate reforms, research shows.

The U.S. Navy's study of Camden and Gates counties for an outlying landing field is still very much alive after a U.S. Senate committee balked Friday at including a measure barring the airfield in the counties from a defense authorization bill.

In this month's episode of Rep. Walter Jones's TV show, Washington Watch, Jones hosted Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader and current chairman of the right-wing astroturf group FreedomWorks .

A defense spending bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives would bar the Navy from building a jet practice landing field in two North Carolina counties, the congressmen said Friday.

North Carolina's junior senator, Kay R. Hagan, introduced her first bill last week -- an effort to ensure high school students understand personal finances.

The Senate has voted to stop the lease of the Michigan State Police HQ. In the next election, the citizens of Michigan will hold us accountable for waste.

A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering a 5-year-old boy for sex.

A victory today for folks fighting an outlying landing field in North Carolina. The creation of an OLF in the northeastern corner of the state has been blocked in the House of Representatives.

Kinston High School's graduation on June 13 was plenty exciting - but for six particular graduates, it was just the beginning.

Happy Wednesday! A proposal to rename the Department of the Navy to the Department of Navy and Marine Corps now has 300 cosponsors in the House, a feat rarely achieved by any piece of legislation.

Health groups push for cigarette tax hike N.C. health organizations are pushing for a cigarette tax increase as the best way to reduce youth smoking and raise revenue.

Senators press for water answers North Carolina's senators continued this week to press for answers about water contamination at Camp Lejeune.

US Rep. Walter Jones says an amendment he attached to a defense spending bill this week will - if the legislation is adopted by the full House and Senate and signed into law by President Obama - successfully block the US Navy from building a jet landing field in two area counties.

WASHINGTON a ' Furniture importers might have to pay taxes on goods imported from countries with value added tax systems, under a bill before Congress.

Tom Fetzer, the newly elected state Republican Party chairman, is already taking shots at the Democrats.

Two local congressmen have introduced legislative amendments that would give more teeth to opposition to the Navy's proposed outlying landing field.

But that wasn't enough to block approval of the measure. The final vote was 226 in favor of the supplemental, 202 against.