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Rep. Virginia Foxx

Representative for North Carolina’s 5th District

pronounced ver-JIN-yuh // foks

Foxx is the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. She has served since Jan 4, 2005. Foxx is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. She is 79 years old.

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Elections must be decided by counting votes

Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.


Foxx was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Foxx joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Foxx voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators have generally changed their story after their vote, claiming it was merely a protest and not intended to change the outcome of the election as they clearly sought prior to the vote. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.

Misconduct

Rep. Foxx failed to complete security screening on May 13, 2021 and was fined $5,000.

May. 18, 2020 House Committee on Ethics announced that Foxx had been fined by the Sergeant at Arms

Earmarks

Foxx did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2024.

Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. More about FY2024 earmark requests from Demand Progress Education Fund »

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Foxx.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Foxx is shown as a purple triangle in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Foxx has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Jun 1, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Virginia Foxx sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Foxx was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 11 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Foxx sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (29%) International Affairs (23%) Education (11%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Health (9%) Economics and Public Finance (6%) Transportation and Public Works (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Foxx recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

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Passed 304/117 on Jun 23, 2011.

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Missed Votes

From Jan 2005 to May 2023, Foxx missed 129 of 12,286 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: