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After a prolonged morning of leadership elections, the Republican caucus of the North Carolina House of Representatives affirmed by acclimation Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, to lead the chamber as the Speaker of the House for the next biennium.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 @ 11:41 am
By: Kevin Smith
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Two top North Carolina House Speaker contenders have dropped out to endorse Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, in a move likely to unite most House Republicans. Axios first reported the news.
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry has served as interim speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives since Oct. 3 after former speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, was ousted.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 8:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, U.S. Congressman Dan Bishop, a Republican from North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, announced he would vote “No” on the motion to remove U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 1:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, formally announced his run for Congress on Tuesday in North Carolina’s newly shaped 14th Congressional District.
Published: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 9:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, North Carolina state politicians and analysts reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the high-profile Moore v. Harper case, with Democratic lawmakers celebrating the decision while plaintiff and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said he is glad the case is “settled.”
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and Rep. David Willis, R-Union, were involved in a car accident around 9:30 P.M. on Thursday where they were “rammed from behind several times,” according to Demi Dowdy, a spokesperson for Moore.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 8:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore and State Rep. David Willis, who are both Republicans, were being transported on an interstate by security Thursday night when their vehicle was repeatedly rammed from behind.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 10:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Tuesday, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced committee assignments for House members of the 2023-24 legislative biennium.
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2023 @ 5:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s 10th District congressman, Patrick McHenry, nominated fellow Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy in the 14th round of balloting for U.S. House speaker Friday night
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 2:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina nominated a Florida colleague, Rep. Byron Donalds, to serve as the next U.S. House speaker.
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 @ 8:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper should stop picking winners and losers in business as he reopens North Carolina’s economy, says N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2020 @ 9:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During his first two years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has been a leading advocate for bipartisan criminal justice reform, a continuation of his successful efforts to implement reforms at the state level during his tenure as North Carolina House Speaker
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore was unanimously nominated for his second term today.
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 @ 11:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Do you prefer competitive elections? Or results that represent the nearly even partisan political split within North Carolina?
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2016 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Speaker Tim Moore has made it clear that the House caucus will live or die at the hand of Cary's Nelson Dollar. Dollar has been pretty clear that he wants to spend MORE money and will not budge on anything.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2015 @ 8:54 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A Democrat named Arthur Williams represented the Outer Banks-centered Sixth District in the North Carolina House from 2003-2011. During that time, he was a good Democrat — a good soldier for then Senate boss Marc Basnight and then-House speaker Jim Black.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 9:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan did her best at a debate Thursday night to portray North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis as a crony of corporate CEOs seeking tax favors at the expense of the middle class and poor people who would take that practice to Washington.
Published: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 5:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite being the true political boss of North Carolina — the one from whom Gov. Pat McCrory, House Speaker Thom Tillis, and Senate leader Phil Berger take their orders over quaffs of mead at the Stonecutters Lodge — Pope has used recent events to camouflage the extent of his power.
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2014 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We had all hoped for this campaign to be about punishing Kay Hagan for her cooperation with Barry Obama and Harry Reid in the enactment of ObamaCare and the accompanying destruction of the US economy.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 4:57 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Thom Tillis, conservative candidate for US Senate and North Carolina House Speaker, tonight used a Republican US Senate Primary debate to focus his message on Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 12:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I first heard about John Rhodes in 2003 while he was serving in the North Carolina House. He was raising questions about the ethics of Democrat House speaker Jim Black and his Republican co-conspirator co-speaker Richard Morgan.
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 10:53 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Thom Tillis, conservative candidate for United States Senate and North Carolina House Speaker, today released his campaign's second television commercial.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 4:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina state House speaker, and US Senate candidate, Thom Tillis has picked up the endorsement of the DC-based Business & Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC).
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Thom Tillis and Harold Brubaker have quite a special political bond. They are the only two Republican speakers of the North Carolina House since Reconstruction.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2014 @ 12:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis announced on Monday a unified strategy to make North Carolina's starting teacher salaries among the highest in the Southeast.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 1:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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He is unable to walk like kids his age, but my niece's son gave his family the best gift ever when he pulled himself up and balanced against a fence while playing in the Arizona sunshine.
Published: Thursday, December 26th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A spokesman for House Speaker Thom Tillis said Wednesday that Republican caucus members have come to an agreement on tax reform and will move forward...
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, the worst kept secret in North Carolina politics got "let out of the bag" today - state House speaker Thom Tillis is jumping into the 2014 US Senate GOP primary.
Published: Sunday, June 2nd, 2013 @ 10:19 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's one of the worst kept secrets in North Carolina that state House speaker Thom Tillis aspires to replace Kay Hagan in the United States Senate.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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When statistics came out in early August that North Carolina high school graduation rates had topped 80 percent for the first time in memory, politicians from both sides of the aisle were quick to claim credit and point fingers.
Published: Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 @ 5:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The days of lawmakers rummaging through stacks of paper on their chamber desks could be numbered.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2012 @ 10:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Harold Brubaker, the first and only Republican House speaker of the 20th century and most recently the chamber's senior budget-writer, announced Thursday he's retiring from the Legislature.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 2:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, House Majority Leader, released the following statements today after the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of Senate Bill 416, which modifies the procedures for the death penalty.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I don't often agree with Joe Hackney, the minority leader of the North Carolina House. A longtime Orange County representative who is retiring this year, Hackney previously served as majority leader and speaker.
Published: Thursday, June 28th, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It began with the question "What if two NC Senators and a NC Representative came to our County and picked the candidate to run for the Senate seat that represents you, the voters of Carteret, Craven, and Pamlico Counties?"
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 6:41 am
By: Ken Lang
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Some state legislators point to a case in Scotland County that cost a businessman thousands of dollars and affected his firm's unemployment credit rating as a prime example of why the penalty for unemployment fraud should be increased from a misdemeanor to a felony.
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 @ 7:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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