Walter Jones News Archives

On October 27, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation granting a federal charter for the Military Officers Association of America .

The National Defense Authorization Act awaiting President Obama's signature includes U.S. Rep.

North Carolina Republican Walter Jones' conscience is really bothering him! Back in 2002, he enthusiastically voted for and supported Bush's call to invade Iraq .

A conscience-stricken member of the House Armed Services Committee is writing a book called "My Daddy's Not Dead Yet" in hopes it will atone for what he now considers his sinful vote to empower former President George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003.

A final Department of Defense authorization bill does not include language sought by members of North Carolina's congressional delegation to prevent a Navy outlying landing field in the northeastern part of the state.

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., on "Face the Nation," Oct. 25, 2009. Democratic Sen.

The Onslow County Republican Party is hosting a picnic at 11 a.m. Saturday at Phillips Park on U.S. 17 in Jacksonville.

Those opposed to building a Navy outlying landing field in northeastern North Carolina have lost one battle in Congress.

Congress has passed a bipartisan bill aimed at combating HIV/AIDS, extending much-needed treatments in Wilson and surrounding counties, U.S. Rep.

A final defense spending bill likely to be signed by President Obama won't contain provisions blocking a Navy landing field from area counties or requiring host counties to sign off on the airfield.

The Obama administration chalked up its first legislative win Thursday in its drive to reform financial regulation as a key House committee voted to regulate trading in derivatives.

Cape Lookout Lighthouse will be repaired and re-opened to public visitation with funds announced this week by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Oct. 16, 2009 - Despite strong Congressional support and the backing of President Obama for a $250 payment to senior citizens in 2010 to compensate for the lack of an increase in Social Security, The Senior Citizens League is not giving up on its support for a House bill that would give the average beneficiary an additional $415.20 in Social ...

Barack Obama's financial reform package took a step forward as a House panel in Washington approved a measure to regulate derivatives.

Rep. Charles Rangel 's colleagues, donors and former staffers this week find themselves pondering whether their financial ties to the veteran, but embattled politicos are truly binding.

A House panel voted Thursday to regulate for the first time privately traded derivatives, the kind of exotic financial instruments that helped bring down Lehman Brothers and nearly toppled American International Group.

Right-wing groups have taken aim at an openly gay Obama Administration official after conservative media and several activists and pundits chastised the official over sex advice he gave a gay student in 1988.

Tomorrow morning, the Social Security Administration is expected to announce that seniors will receive no Cost of Living Adjustment in their Social Security checks next year.

Washington, D.C. North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones is warning veterans from Eastern North Carolina to guard against a new telephone scam attempting credit theft.

It was 1913 when Louis Brandeis - later a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - first wrote of the disinfecting power of sunshine.

Imagine being denied insurance coverage because you were a victim of domestic abuse.

Back in 1913, Louis Brandeis, who would later go on to become a U.S. Supreme Court justice, wrote, "Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases." Brandeis was discussing the disinfecting power of sunlight and the impact of public disclosure on the growing power of financial markets.

The 2010 elections may seem so far off that nothing is happening, but it's not for lack of effort on the part of the candidates for various state offices.

The U.S House unanimously passed a resolution that would let members of the military keep the first time home buyer tax credit, even if they were forced to sell their house within the 36 month holding period.

Butterfield praises Gore pick U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield applauded this week President Obama's appointment of Randall Gore as state director of USDA Rural Development.

A bill introduced by Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., and now being co-sponsored by Rep.

Six congressional representatives in districts from Massachusetts to North Carolina have asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to assume costs for scallop fishery's observer program, which have defaulted to the industry after annual set-aside catch allocations were used up in barely half the year.

Three Republican lawmakers say the state welfare system is being abused and it is costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

Margaret Weaver, of Sneads Ferry, recently went to Washington, D.C., with more than 400 American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network volunteers to call on Congress for action on comprehensive health care reform.

Butterfield adds provision to act Companies that compromise customers' identities may be required to provide them with free credit monitoring, thanks to a law change proposed by U.S. Rep.

The deadline is swiftly approaching for Michigan lawmakers. They have until one minute before Midnight on Thursday morning to strike a budget agreement, or the state could see another government shutdown.

Lawmakers in Washington D.C. have introduced two distinct pieces of legislation to give relief to Social Security beneficiaries facing 2010 with no prospect of their accustomed cost-of-living increase .