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Our office is now accepting submissions for the 2024 Congressional Art Competition from high school students who live or attend school in North Carolina's 12th Congressional District.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 2, 2024) – Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement on the passing of Retired Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Friday, December 15, 2023) – Today, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) and Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) announced the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) publication of a report outlining policy considerations for establishing a grant program at the Farm Credit System (FCS) geared toward socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 13, 2023) - Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement on her opposition to H. Res. 927:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 25, 2023) - For the past twenty-one days the House of Representatives has been without a speaker and unable to do the people's work.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 2, 2023) – Today, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) filed a bipartisan amendment to the spending bill that funds the Department of the Interior, Environment, and related agencies that expresses support for $3 million in funding for the African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Program.
CHARLOTTE (September 8, 2023) – Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) today announced the deadline for Mecklenburg and Cabarrus County high school students to apply to be one of her nominees to the United States' Military Service Academies is Friday, November 3, 2023.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 6, 2023) – Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) and U.S. Representatives Dan Kildee (MI-08) and Bobby Scott (VA-03) today introduced the Family Farmer and Rancher Tax Fairness Act of 2023, legislation that would remove the tax liability for distressed farmers on the assistance provided under Sections 22006 and 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
WASHINGTON, DC (August 30, 2023) – Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) introduced a resolution "expressing the sense of Congress that August 30, 2023, be observed as the 133rd anniversary of the 1890 Institutions." The 1890s are 19 Historically Black land-grant Universities that were established by the Second Morrill Act of 1890.