Virginia Foxx
Republican · NC-5 · U.S. House
NC-5 — U.S. House
Safe R 97%Virginia Foxx is on the ballot. Chuck Hubbard vs. Virginia Foxx. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Virginia Ann Foxx is an American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 5th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, Foxx has served as chair of the House Rules Committee since 2025 in the 119th Congress. She also served as Secretary of the House Republican Conference from 2013 to 2016. She was the ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor from 2019 to 2023 and served as the committee's chair from 2017 to 2019 and from 2023 to 2025. Foxx's district encompasses much of the rural northwestern portion of the state, including the majority of Greensboro. Since January 2025, Foxx has been the dean of North Carolina's congressional delegation, having previously shared the deanship with Patrick McHenry until his retirement.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 21.7 years
- First took office
- 2005 (11 terms)
- Seniority
- 48 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 83
- Boone, NC · 828-265-0240
- Mayodan, NC · 336-778-0211
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $2.8M – $6.3M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $2.8M – $6.3M
- Since 2019
- +$686k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 52 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Virginia Foxx's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Virginia Foxx (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Foxxsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 37 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Foxx's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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GOP Rep Virginia Foxx Holds Opioid And Coal Stocks Amid NC Overdose Crisis And Hundreds Of Mine Safety PenaltiesNorth Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx has held opioid and coal company stocks amid the state’s overdose crisis and hundreds of mine safety penalties.
The Daily Caller · October 7, 2026
Trump's arch placed on notice by senior Republican who'd have to pay for itA senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee is pushing back on the idea that federal money, particularly Pentagon funding, should go toward building President Donald Trump's planned triumphal arch near the Lincoln Memorial.Rep. Mike Simpson (R-I…
Raw Story · September 21, 2026
Embattled Republican threatens longstanding House tradition to avoid feeling 'irritated'A House Republican, whose caucus is being besieged with questions about President Donald Trump, is leading the charge to spare lawmakers the irritation of reporters camped off the House floor, according to a new report.Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who chairs th…
Raw Story · September 17, 2026- Every Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott Israel
On Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would take federal funding away from academic institutions involved in any kind of boycott of or divestment from Israel. The legislation passed 237–169. The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom …
Freerepublic.com · September 4, 2026
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